Essays

Dr Karl Lehman and Pastor Charlotte Lehman have spent over 10,000 hours writing a comprehensive collection of essays totalling over 1,000 pages which they offer to the public for free on their website, www.kclehman.com. The essays below are specifically chosen from the larger collection of essays to be used as supplementary reading to the book Outsmarting Yourself. To view the Lehmans’ complete collection of essays about how to effectively minister healing to the mind, brain, and spirit system click on this link to www.kclehman.com

Immanuel God With Us

(New: 10/25/2006 revised: 10/26/2006) summary: This document is the manuscript of Charlotte’s seminar lecture recorded on the DVD/VHS entitled “Immanuel: God With Us.” Charlotte delves into the Biblical uses of the name Immanuel, Hebrew for “God with us,” and draws out essential insights, both for emotional healing, and more broadly, for the life of Christian discipleship. This presentation of Biblical exegesis and real life illustrations can also serve as an indirect and non-threatening, but compelling, introduction to the necessity for emotional healing in the life of the believer. This teaching also contributed to the discovery and use of powerful new approaches to emotional healing, which we are now sharing in the “Immanuel Series.”

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Introduction to the Immanuel Approach

(New: 10/24/2007 revised: 07/23/2011) summary: “The first thing I want to do is tell the story of my journey with respect to what we call the ‘Immanuel Approach to emotional healing,’ and also the larger ‘Immanuel Approach to life.’ Hopefully, this story of my personal journey will provide an overview with respect to how all of the pieces fit together.” [This document is the promised updated post-conference version of “Part I” of the material Dr. Lehman presented at “Healing Redesigned: Brain Science, Psychological Trauma, & The God Who Is With Us,” on 16-20 June 2008, in Springfield Illinois, sponsored by THRIVE. It is mostly the same as Part I of what was presented 9-10 November 2007, in Sydney, Australia, and on 24-26 April 2008 in Modesto, California.]

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Mind and Brain separate but Integrated (Condensed version)

This essay presents our thoughts regarding the biological brain, the non-biological mind, and how they fit together. The “mind and brain” paradigm presented here provides a foundation from which those studying the biological brain and those studying the mind/spirit can work together, as complementary players on the same team. NOTE: a dramatically improved update of the condensed version, along with a dramatically improved update of the full version, is now available as a Kindle book. Link to purchase on Amazon

Mind and Brain Separate but Integrated (full version)

This essay presents our thoughts regarding the biological brain, the non-biological mind, and how they fit together. The “mind and brain” paradigm presented here provides a foundation from which those studying the biological brain and those studying the mind/spirit can work together, as complementary players on the same team. NOTE: a dramatically improved update of the condensed version, along with a dramatically improved update of the full version, is now available as a Kindle book. Link to purchase on Amazon

Pain Processing Pathway

(New 7/27/2007, Revised 2/4/2011) summary: We all encounter painful experiences. When we encounter pain, our brain/mind/spirit system tries to process the painful experience, and there is a specific pathway that this processing follows. When we are able to successfully complete this processing journey, we get through the painful experience without being traumatized – we emotionally and cognitively “metabolize” the experience in a healthy way, and instead of having any toxic power in our lives, the adequately processed painful experience contributes to our knowledge, skills, wisdom, and maturity. However, various problems and/or limitations can block successful processing. If we are not able to complete the processing journey, then the painful experience becomes a traumatic experience, and traumatic experiences have toxic power in our lives. This essay describes the processing pathway, discusses the problems that can block successful processing, and describes ways in which the Lord’s Immanuel presence can resolve these blockages.

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Where and How Do I Get Training

(New: 01/26/2010 revised: 07/1/2011) summary: An increasing number of people have been contacting us with questions along the lines of: “I would like to use the Immanuel approach to emotional healing in my _______ (psychotherapy practice, ministry, church, small group, family, marriage, etc). How/where do I get training that will enable me to do this?” Unfortunately, at this time we do not have any kind of training institute, we do not offer internships/apprenticeships, and we are not providing seminars designed to train people to use the Immanuel approach. In the absence of this kind of Immanuel approach training package, we offer the following thoughts on how to use the resources that are currently available in putting together a “do it yourself” Immanuel approach training program.

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