Counseling For Issues Of Past Hurt

Issues of past hurt can sometimes reside in our memory and affect the way we think, the choices or decisions we make and the emotions we feel. They can also affect the inner and outward reactions that we have to other people and to what they say, as well as both pleasant and painful experiences. The people who recorded the Bible referred to the place where such activity occurs with a number of words and phrases, some of which we translate as "heart", "soul", "mind", "spirit", "innermost being" and "inward parts". Today, many, if not most, who minister in this type of healing refer to that place simply as the soul (psyche in Greek), which generally encompasses what we might call personality or individuality: thoughts, memories, will and emotions. Even when the hurts have been thoroughly suppressed and no longer infect the conscious memory, they can remain and affect us.