As future Professional Counselor's and Marriage and Family Therapist this relates to us because we also need to guard our hearts. We also need to realize that we can not guard our client's hearts for them because in Proverb 4:23 it says that you need to guard your heart. So, our client's are in charge of guarding their own hearts and all we can do is guide them in the right direction to achieve that. As LPC's and MFT's we need to guard our hearts, take care of our emotions, mediate, and take care of ourselves; so that we do not become impaired counselors and wound others.
This relates to me because in certain relationships in my life I choose not to guard my heart and just trust that I would not get hurt. I was wrong for doing that because I let in the wrong things and it deeply imbedded in me to where all the relationships I'd seek after that suffered. Letting the wrong things into your heart and not guarding your heard does more harm then good believe me when I say that. Now that I have gotten all of the deeply imbedded wrongs out of my heart am I able to guard it with God's help. As a future LPC I will continue to guard my heart and teach my clients how they can guard their own hearts as well; so that they will not be weighted down with worries. I will leave you off with these verses Matthew 5:8 God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God and Luke 21:34 Watch out! Don’t let your hearts be dulled by carousing and drunkenness, and by the worries of this life. Don’t let that day catch you unaware.
This article speaks to me dearly. I too have left my heart open too many times only to have it shattered and broken. I have always heard the statement "guard your heart" but I never knew how to do it. As I have gotten older and hopefully wiser, it is becoming imparative that I can not simply let everything in, regardless of how tempting it may be.
ReplyDeleteI like the article and your posting. I know that I personally wear my heart on my sleeve. No wonder I get upset whenever it gets hurt. It gets hurt because it is out in the open instead of guarded. Besides relationships, I am personally afraid that my heart can make me impaired as a counselor due to the fact that I want to help everyone. I am afraid that my heart will cause me to break certain boundaries (not on an intimate level of course) with a client because of how badly I want to help them. I just hope that I can remain the "counselor" in the situation instead of becoming something on the lines of a "best friend". Because that can hurt the client too.
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