Christian Psychiatry made simple.
Learn it. Practice it. Use it.
Peace, Joy, Freedom!
Christian Psychiatry made simple. Learn it. Practice it. Use it. Peace, Joy, Freedom!
Message of Hope from Dr. Karl
Through his 35 years as a psychiatrist,
Dr. Karl developed key tools empowering
you to heal, consistently make Godly
decisions, and renew your mind.
Through his 35 years as a psychiatrist, Dr. Karl developed key tools empowering you to heal, consistently make Godly decisions, and renew your mind.
When you search the web for psychological help, you will find
most websites will fall into one of these 3 categories.
When you search the web for psychological help, you will find most websites will fall into one of these 3 categories.
Science/Psych Dominant
Science/Psych Dominant: Lots of psychological science, but faith is rarely integrated. If faith is mentioned, it is not a core foundational building block and leaves out Jesus. This category can be divided into two groups:
- Institutions with science or stats but no practical help
- Non-professionals with basic tips, but lacking depth or lasting impact
Spirit Dominant
Spirit Dominant: Created by spirit-mind-body enthusiasts, but the spiritual is a very eclectic meditation, relaxation, and positive psychology-oriented approach. These sites don’t recognize a true divine being with ultimate power.
Alternatively, it deceives their audience into believing the lie that they can become the “god” of their own universe. Rarely is this content delivered through Bible-based Jesus-centered lenses.
Theology Dominant
Theology Dominant: Of the three, this one has the most Bible-based, Jesus-centric content. But it lacks clear understanding and application of psychological principles, while occasionally is actually opposes psychology/psychiatry. Because of this limited psychological expertise, these sites struggle to practically apply the Bible into everyday life management. Like being told to go out and score more points to win (“sin no more”), but not taught how to tackle, block, play defense, etc.
Excerpt from My eBook:
Practical NeuroTheology
My Practical NeuroTheology approach uniquely integrates cutting-edge
psychiatric neuroscience with Bible-based, Christ-centered Spiritual
principles to help people overcome practical everyday struggles to
achieve their God-given potential.
My Practical NeuroTheology approach uniquely integrates cutting-edge psychiatric neuroscience with Bible-based, Christ-centered Spiritual principles to help people overcome practical everyday struggles to achieve their God-given potential.
Intellectual vs. Experimental Knowledge
Hopefully you are empowered and encouraged by this concept, your decisions determine your brain chemistry. So, no matter what circuits you got now, you got hope! Correct decisions produce strong and healthy brain circuits. Wrong decisions lead to weak and injured brain circuits. So, then what is the primary influence on our decisions? That would be our belief system. The beliefs that are stored in our heart, as mentioned in principle 5 above, are what determines the decisions we make
Now I am not talking about intellectual beliefs. That is the beliefs we consciously can recite if someone asks us who is your #1 on the throne of your heart. Or who is the king of the world as we know it. Our true or experiential belief system is actually formed by not only our intellectual knowledge, but also our experiential knowledge. Experiential knowledge is our stored interpretations of all our everyday experiences, going back to our earliest days as a baby. These are all stored in our unconscious mind, which we will talk about shortly.
Sadly, lots of wrong interpretations and data is stored in our unconscious memory banks/files, thus leading to our wrong or sinful decisions. An easy example of this is Peter at the Last Supper. JESUS told Peter that he would deny JESUS 3 times that night. Peter expressed his intellectual beliefs – “I will never deny you, in fact I would even die for you!” But we know in the courtyard a few hours later, Peter’s true/experiential belief system is what actually influenced his decisions 3 straight times of convincingly denying JESUS. In his unconscious space, he believed worshipping and advocating for himself as #1 priority in that situation was a much higher priority than worshipping or advocating for JESUS who he would consciously proclaim as his #1.
Unconscious Thoughts
So let me share with you the hard-to-hear news as to why we struggle. Drum roll please. Each person’s Essence Space isn’t nearly as advanced as they think it is. To help explain why, let me start by sharing a classic word picture. Our thinking activities are often represented by an iceberg in the water. Our conscious thoughts, the ones we are aware of and can verbalize in the present are represented by the part of the iceberg we see above the water. Our unconscious thoughts, that is the thoughts we aren’t presently aware of are represented by the part of the iceberg below the water surface. By far, a lot more iceberg exists below the surface of the water. Most of our unconscious thinking is stored so deep in our memory storage filing system that we are mostly unaware of its power and impact. But 98% of our thinking is unconscious thought. And its influence arises from all the data we have stored in our memory banks from the very first day we start taking in data, in the womb. Without training and practice, we usually are not very good at accessing or understanding what is even stored in our unconscious space. We can bring unconscious information into our conscious awareness, but that is a very active process that takes work and practice. This is why we have a hard time applying the Paul’s passage in 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 that I mentioned in Principle #11. Taking every thought – not just our conscious, but our unconscious thoughts – captive to the obedience of CHRIST. If we aren’t aware they even exist in our deepest files or vaults of our memory (hippocampus) and/or emotion (amygdala) systems, how can we see if they are in line with Biblical truths, or the obedience of Christ. Neither society, nor the Church teach us about our unconscious mind. Most of us grow up not aware of the most influential part of our being, our Essence Space.
Dr. Karl is closely associated with
the following organizations
Dr. Karl is closely associated with
the following organizations
