Exercises and Insights you might
Choose to Grow Healthier Beliefs and Habits
For each of the nine issues this test measures, three sets of exercises are presented for your personal growth, healing, and problem-solving. The first one, heads up, provides Devotional Guides, a one-page summary of the teachings about this issue that are found in the Bible. Readers who have been hurt or misinformed by religious friends and authorities can of course just skip over these. Others may find these pages inspiring. Still others might be just curious of why some religious people they know live and talk the way they do.
The other two sections will be helpful to most everyone. The tool kit in the middle gives Psychological Insights about the causes and effects of our healthy and unhealthy choices. Effort has been made to present this information in the language of common sense and common conversations.
The final set of articles gives Parenting Tips for raising healthy children. You may use that to guide your own parenting and grand-parenting, and it may help you to look back at the way you were raised. Seeing where your family and role models were healthy or unhealthy can help you see why you have found it easier to choose or reject certain beliefs and lifestyles.
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For each of our Nine Core Issues, here are:
A Devotional Guide with 20+ annotated scriptures,
A Life Lesson with Insights and Guidance from Psychology, and
A set of Parenting Tips for Raising Healthy Children
Now scroll down to find your Issue:
- Physical HEALTH: Gluttony vs. Physical Fitness ~ Taking Care of the Body
- SAFETY: Fear vs. Trust ~ Sheltering in Power & Peace
- LOVE: Envy vs. Compassion ~ Balancing Love for Self and Others
- RESPECT: Selfish Pride vs. Humility ~ Balancing Respect for Self and Others
- PURPOSE: Laziness vs. Enthusiasm ~ Actively Conserving your Time and Energy
- MERCY: Resentment vs. Peacemaking ~ How our Mercy and our Anger can Create Peace
- SEXUALITY: Lust vs. Sexual Integrity ~ Harnessing the Powers of Sex and Romance
- MONEY: Greed vs. Resourcefulness ~ Using Money and Material Things Wisely
- TRUTH: Deceit vs. Honesty ~ Responding to Issues of Reality, Authority, Validity, Power
The link at the end of this section will send you elsewhere in this website where 27 exercises are presented for users of the other test here, the Character Assessment Scale. Feedback and resources for this test often use moral and religious language, as that test is created for and normed on the responses of people who identify as Christians. Just as Christian readers may not be so concerned with being healthy as they are about being holy, most people in society are the other way around. Here are the key changes in wording you may want to make, so you can think of what's healthy more than what's holy:
Sinful, Holy, and Godly -> Selfish, Healthy and Lively
Faith and Peace -> Trust and Safety
Honor -> Respect
Grace and Forgiveness -> Mercy and Acceptance
Lovemaking -> Sexuality
Wealth and Stewardship -> Money and Resourcefulness
To help reduce prejudice, misunderstanding, and divisiveness in our society, we are trying to get peope who think they are holy to want to be more healthy, and vice-versa. Over and over again, we find where being one of these at the expense of the other doesn't work out very well for people, and that is taught in the Bible surprisingly often.
Click here for the 27 Exercises for Personal Growth, Healing, and Problem-Solving