Anxiety: How it is created and how it is healed

Paperback

Pages: 72

Transcribed homilies of Archimandrite Symeon Kragiopoulos (†)

“In encountering the words written by Father Symeon, one realizes that his words are filled with a deep empathy and spiritual solicitude for the souls around him. They come from his own God-inspired personality and painful struggles. These words, written for his spiritual children, do not scold or rebuke, instead they guide souls who are experiencing pain to discover God’s help and salvation. They show the way for each soul to find the path of salvation amidst their painful experiences.”

~Father Athanasius Kone

Contents:

Anxiety departs with trust in God 7

People create their problems by having the wrong attitude before God 7

You turn the knife that wounded you 9

Trust God as a small child trusts its father 11

What you need to give to God is yourself 13

The major problem with people today is that they cannot be alone with themselves 15

God stoops down over you and wants you to be sanctified 17

If you take the path towards God, as bitter as the cup seems, it begins to become sweet 20

Godly sadness nourishes and enlarges the soul 24

Only the present exists 28

The secret is for a person to love God 32

Anxiety comes from the struggle between good and evil 34

When does a person who is contending in the spiritual life suffer psychologically? 35

Each of us has our own psychosomatic system 38

The seeking of sinful pleasure for self-validation 41

The repression of the experience of guilt 44

How a person reaches a state of callousness 48

The three ways in which a person can react afrer they sin 52

What St. Porphyrios says about confronting anxiety 56

'I go to Christ' 56

Make a new beginning every day 59

Give no importance to how you feel 61

What does it hurt you to trust God? 65

I can attest to this... 67