Reframing

Reframing has also been a useful tool. Life is full of hurtful experiences. Many of which I have held on to. Taking the hurtful experiences, picturing it as I see it now and then picturing how God wants me to see it, has helped bring much healing.
It’s very similar to EMDR and Theophostic ministry. With EMDR one listens to a ticking that moves from one ear to another or watches an object move from one side to the other. During this you are focusing on a hurtful issue, while focusing feelings and other things related to this come up and then you focus on each of these things. The idea is that there is more to the hurt than the event itself and once you get to the root of the feeling associated with this event you will no longer have any hurt attached to this memory. You will still remember, but feel nothing. I went through this on numerous things and was promised that this works every time; it worked on each of my issues.
Theophostic is similar to this, but it is giving the issue and hurt to God, allowing Him to speak truth to the lies that you believe about the event. Once God reveals the truth you no longer believe the lie, thus being able to move on and not have it affect other areas in your life. Just as in EMDR, you remember the event, but with no emotion.
Unlike EMDR and Theophostic ministry, reframing seems to be much more direct and a bit quicker to resolve the negative emotion. You do not have to be able to put words to the event or even express exactly how you feel. You just draw, talk about, pray, journal, whatever medium works for you, the experience and how you remember it. It doesn’t even seem to matter how factual it is, just how you perceive it. As you reframe, you release the pain. God then helps us to see the event differently, the way He is seeing it. Now when we see the experience, we feel no pain. This also leads to forgiveness towards any one whom was a part of this or that we just may be angry at due to the event. Sometimes life doesn’t always go the way that we want it to. We cannot always choose what happens to us, but we can choose how we are going to view it. We can hang onto our hurt or we can reframe it and let God hang it in a new and decorative manner. Does this mean that what has happened disappears and we no longer have to remember it? Absolutely not! The past is still the past, it’s just that all of a sudden we are aware that it is the past and we still have a future to look forward to.