When God Feels Like a Threat: Spiritual Hypervigilance and the Man Who Can’t Stop Scanning Heaven
If your relationship with God feels more like surveillance than rest, your story may have shaped your image of God.
If your relationship with God feels more like surveillance than rest, your story may have shaped your image of God.
If global crises land in your body like they’re happening in your living room, your story and the world’s story may be entangled.
If you regularly feel unmoored or lost in ways that don’t match the circumstances, your body might be replaying an older experience.
If food has become something you endure rather than enjoy, your body may be remembering something through your taste buds.
If picking up an instrument activates dread instead of delight, your body may be replaying a story that has nothing to do with the music.
If your voice disappears when it matters most, the silence might not be shyness. It might be a survival strategy from boyhood.
When group prayer triggers your alarm system, your story may be shaping what happens when you open your mouth before God.
When a random smell hijacks your mood or floods you with emotion, your body is remembering something your mind may have never processed.
The war in your marriage may not be between you and your wife. It may be between your present self and the survival strategies of your past.
The same sense that ambushes you with old memories can also become a tool for bringing you back to the present.