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Thanks to those provided their initial thoughts on this program. https://www.thefoundationsofwellbeing.com/
A Catholic friend shared these thoughts and I am sharing as a new post to invite any other additional insights from our forum members. Thank you all.
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The Foundation of Well-Being program is based on sound psychology and Catholic principles.
The 12 pillars of well-being in the program are the following:
Self-caring: If you do not love yourself, it is difficult to love anyone else. Yes, the second most important command given by Jesus is to love your neighbor as yourself.
Mindfulness: Training your attention and steadying your mind. Certainly the Catholic practice of saying the Rosary is a form of meditation.
Learning: How could anyone object to this pillar? Devotion to Christianity is a broad path, where some travel straight down the center in the fastest manner, and others meander to the left and right, and may even tread outside the borders of the path, later to return to it.
Vitality: This pillar includes improving your God-given body through sound principles of nutrition, exercise and improved sleep. It also may include avoiding anything that might harm your body such as excessive alcohol, drugs, pornography, obesity and the like.
Gratitude: To be thankful to God for your existence and His love is ideal, but one also needs to be grateful for parents, friends, family members, food, shelter, and an endless number of other things on a regular basis.
Confidence: Feeling loved by God and others certainly engenders confidence. Humility is good and strong beliefs in self importance and ego-centricity are not.
Calm: Certainly inner peace, and feelings of acceptance, love and gratitude are ideals towards which we strive. Knowing God and others love you regardless of appearance, intelligence, and physical strength promote calmness.
Motivation: Learn to accept that which you have, but also strive to be a better person.
Intimacy: Healthy interpersonal relationships are to be desired, with the most important one involving God. Intimacy not only involves love, but with it, empathy. To be truly intimate, one has to admit to being vulnerable.
Courage: Certainly St. Thomas More had courage. Be able to appreciate the difference of being strong, firm, direct and even fiery without being angry, hateful and vengeful are certainly Christian values and those demonstrated by Christ Himself.
Aspiration: Learn to explore and desire to attain your wholesome dreams while realizing that attachment to
them is to be avoided.
Service: We need to be generous and helpful to others. We must do this with love and compassion. We must understand the interdependence of all mankind. We must do what we can and accept what we can’t.
In summary, Catholics must understand that not everyone handed a bible will open and read it, particularly when they are coming from a troubled place. As faithful Catholics we must not be pharisaical. We must lure the wounded lion into the clearing in the jungle with food, and then with compassion, stroking and love, we may win it over and then the “wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat.”
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A Catholic friend shared these thoughts and I am sharing as a new post to invite any other additional insights from our forum members. Thank you all.
…
The Foundation of Well-Being program is based on sound psychology and Catholic principles.
The 12 pillars of well-being in the program are the following:
Self-caring: If you do not love yourself, it is difficult to love anyone else. Yes, the second most important command given by Jesus is to love your neighbor as yourself.
Mindfulness: Training your attention and steadying your mind. Certainly the Catholic practice of saying the Rosary is a form of meditation.
Learning: How could anyone object to this pillar? Devotion to Christianity is a broad path, where some travel straight down the center in the fastest manner, and others meander to the left and right, and may even tread outside the borders of the path, later to return to it.
Vitality: This pillar includes improving your God-given body through sound principles of nutrition, exercise and improved sleep. It also may include avoiding anything that might harm your body such as excessive alcohol, drugs, pornography, obesity and the like.
Gratitude: To be thankful to God for your existence and His love is ideal, but one also needs to be grateful for parents, friends, family members, food, shelter, and an endless number of other things on a regular basis.
Confidence: Feeling loved by God and others certainly engenders confidence. Humility is good and strong beliefs in self importance and ego-centricity are not.
Calm: Certainly inner peace, and feelings of acceptance, love and gratitude are ideals towards which we strive. Knowing God and others love you regardless of appearance, intelligence, and physical strength promote calmness.
Motivation: Learn to accept that which you have, but also strive to be a better person.
Intimacy: Healthy interpersonal relationships are to be desired, with the most important one involving God. Intimacy not only involves love, but with it, empathy. To be truly intimate, one has to admit to being vulnerable.
Courage: Certainly St. Thomas More had courage. Be able to appreciate the difference of being strong, firm, direct and even fiery without being angry, hateful and vengeful are certainly Christian values and those demonstrated by Christ Himself.
Aspiration: Learn to explore and desire to attain your wholesome dreams while realizing that attachment to
them is to be avoided.
Service: We need to be generous and helpful to others. We must do this with love and compassion. We must understand the interdependence of all mankind. We must do what we can and accept what we can’t.
In summary, Catholics must understand that not everyone handed a bible will open and read it, particularly when they are coming from a troubled place. As faithful Catholics we must not be pharisaical. We must lure the wounded lion into the clearing in the jungle with food, and then with compassion, stroking and love, we may win it over and then the “wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat.”
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