Acuprayer is simply a method we use in God's presence. We hear from Him. We process our emotions with Him. We walk in step with Him, processing emotions one at a time, as He guides our steps in His way.
Acuprayer particularly seeks to recognize how we have responded, or reacted, to the difficult emotions we have experienced. We also look to see what spurred those feelings in the first place.
Sometimes, even a hard situation is easy to brush off. But, sometimes our reactions can be very strong. Our reaction might even be more overwhelming than the initial situation. Often that "over-reaction" has grown out of an old hurt, belief -- or commitment that we have made to ourselves. Perhaps, for sake of survival as a child, we developed a coping strategy that is coming up short in our adulthood.
God enables those hurts, as well as our unhealthy beliefs and commitments, to be brought to light and removed from our standard method of operation. All the memories remain, but like looking back at a scar on our physical bodies, our histories will no longer ooze and ache. Instead, we will be able to tell the stories with compassion for our younger self who experienced hurtful circumstances, without carrying the negativity of that prior time into today.
