Lux Mundi: Healthy outlets

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Healthy outlets

Music is one of my outlets. Without the ability to express myself through music I would go crazy. I also enjoy writing poetry every once in a while. I get that not everyone is artistic or musically inclined. That is fine, I don't think that matters. What matters is finding a healthy way to express your emotions.

I tend to go on a tirade against the popular opinion on emotions. I have this theory that the greatest modern heresy is "emotionalism". That, as far as I know, is not a real heresy but I say it is. Emotions are real and they are powerful, but they should not be the impetus of our actions.

But in order to live a life in which we don't allow ourselves to be dictated by our feelings, we need to have a healthy way of expressing what is inside us. I have music, poetry, and athletics. A lot of people use alcohol and drugs as a means of dealing with their emotions, and that is not healthy. So find a way to express your emotions healthily and in that way you will find it much easier to come to God in prayer.

I plan on writing an essay on what I call emotionalism. It is something I have very strong opinions on. I'll share some of it with you guys. So look out for that!

God Love you,

AMDG
Peter James d`Aquino

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First of all we are all young people and proudly Catholic. We are a group of close friends in college and we are lively and practicing young men and women who have devoted our lives to the service of Christ and His Church in whatever way the Lord sees fit! That is partially the most exciting part of this group. We all went to high school together, and we met in our senior year. A string of circumstances brought us together to pray and discuss our faith. It was a truly incredible time! For now there are only a few of us working on this blog but we hope some others will join us as time goes on.

This Blog was my idea. I have been looking for a way to get involved in spreading the Gospel in a real and effective way for two years. I cannot stand being on the side lines. One day some inspiration came to me: A blog by Catholic youth for everyone. Since I can remember there has been a lack of an intense youthful presence in the Church. That is most certainly changing, and I want to be part of it! In my many experiences with catholic blogs, I have had to go to several places to read all the information and discussion I wanted, so my thought was to create a one stop blog, simple and easy, which has several “voices” with one directed sound. I don’t know if that makes sense. I want to have one direction with several different authors and perspectives but all young. I also don’t want the writing to be overly elevated nor obsessively analytical, which can sometimes scare people away. But we also can’t dumb down the faith; to do that would be an insult to the one true faith. That, for the most part was the idea! There are things similar, but none like what I was really hoping to do. One night I was blessed with this inspiration. But I have been frightened to take it on, that is one of my faults, misguided fear. The idea wouldn’t go away and I figured I needed to try but I couldn’t do it alone. There was only one group of people who could help me do this and so I enlisted the help of my friends; and here we are.

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