ABSTRACT
In the fourth chapter, Christian clients practice thinking with compassion and mercy towards themselves and others. They are able to work on disputing and replacing distorted thoughts and beliefs about how God sees them, striving to modify their God image in the process, and recite a Christian mantra as a way to calm and focus the mind. Drawing from the Christian tradition, Christian clients practice kataphatic meditation within Protestant spirituality, recite the Psalms within the desert spiritual tradition, and learn lectio divina within medieval spirituality. In addition to striving towards shifting their focus to God’s attributes, actions, and promises, Christian clients are able to practice extending Jesus’ compassion towards someone else. In doing so, they are starting the lifelong process of refocusing their thinking on God whenever their wandering mind has drifted.
