We were made by God. Our natural internal drives are there to motivate us to formulate friendships and family relationships while we work at being good, decent, respectful, nice, individuals who can have fun by filling our day with healthy simple pleasures of life.
See, when we see the tragedies around the world we never consider that our “dark energy” contributes to these tragedies. We make people experience trauma with our disapproving looks, verbal assaults, and even physical violence.
Okay, you are right. Most of you have not provided mental or material support to a rapist, murderer, or thieve. However, with our ungodly behavior we increase the amount of evil in the world and by doing so we contribute to the growth of evil around the world.
We are also intellectual and emotional beings. In an average modern life a person listens to over 5,000 songs. The average individual, also, sees and hears the elements of over 5,000 movies. We engage in even more conversations with a substantial amount of people.
Most of the messages in these songs, movies, and conversations are very negative. There are few massages of competent parents, happily married people, or fulfilled individuals.
Our anxiety and depression is due to not being able to meet the requirements of God. We cannot meet these requirements because we do not know how to follow God and follow the instructions of God. This leads to confusion and fear. It also leads to missing out on a life of abundance.
Serial killers and mass murders start with ideas. The first violent idea enters into their mind then the person builds on this violent idea with more violent ideas.
We in our view of life and our sense of life start with an idea then build on this idea with other ideas. Unfortunately, our ideas are superficial, which lead to mistakes because of our incomplete information.
Today, people are exercising quick thrills in order to medicate their pain and suffering. This pain and suffering comes from failures we commit because we do not know how to live well.
There is an internal struggle between the part of us that is leading us to God and the “seductive whispers of satan” that tell us to disobey God. Guilt, shame, embarrassment, and fear of God lead to pain and suffering we know as anxiety and depression.
In learning psychology, there are the terms Condition Stimulus, Unconditioned Stimulus, Unconditioned respond and Condition response. The stimulus is the “thing” that causes a response from the person. This response can be something we are taught or a response that is built in to our nature.
A desire to know God is a response that is built in to our nature. Cohabiting outside of marriage is as response we are taught by the negative messages in our media environment.
In our modern world many people are trying to live as if God does not exist. As hard as many of these people try, they fail at being able to live a life free of duress and filled with fun.
When we are exposed to constant bad messages (unconditioned stimuli) we form bad habits that are hard to break. Media present these bad messages as good. This presentation leads to pleasure. Information coded with pleasure is attractive and we pursue this information. Information coded with pain is unattractive and we avoid this information. Unfortunately, sometimes bad information is presented as pleasurable and good information is presented as painful. Disobeying God ,which is bad information, is presented as something good in our society, which elicits pleasure. However, this pleasure soon turns to pain because as long as we live God is trying to get us to recognize Him and live according to His will.
Therefore, living a healthy life where we incorporate fun in our lives as we practice a relationship with God as he leads us through life on earth is a life that leads to good mental health and good physical health. Even though present life appears bad, we should remember that the life God has to offer can be a life of peace, love, and joy where we can confront the challenges in life fortified with the knowledge that a loving God is in the fight with us.