Every Thought Captive: 11 Christian Tapping Exercises for Emotional Freedom

By Leah Lesesne

Take Every Thought Captive!

The struggles we face affect us body-mind-spirit; the solutions must holistically engage every part of us as well! Captive Thought Therapy is a mind-body inner healing protocol that combines tapping, declarations, and inner healing prayer to help you take your thoughts captive and find greater breakthroughs in emotional and spiritual health.

By engaging the body in the healing process through tapping and the soul and spirit through prayer:

• We release emotions that have been physically stored (Psalm 32:3)
• And by focusing on specific thoughts and emotions, we displace lies that have kept us stuck in faulty patterns that fall short of the abundance of health God desires for us (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
• We submit each thought and emotion to the authority of Jesus and allow his truth to reign over our minds, souls, spirits, and bodies. (2 Corinthians 10:5)

Start tapping into your emotions today!

Eleven CTT tapping exercises plus a general emotional exercise, and exercises for forgiveness and getting your head and heart to agree on truth, plus an emotional synonyms chart to help you pick an exercise to tap with and grow your emotional vocabulary.

 

Emotions Included:

• Anger
• Anxious Thoughts
• Depressive Feelings
• Fear
• Grief
• Hopelessness
• Loneliness
• Rejection
• Mood Swings
• Shame

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shelemah LLC
• Release date: Jun 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201496135

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Introduction

Welcome to Every Thought Captive!

All of these exercises come from Captive Thought Therapy, the model I’ve developed from years working with my clients to live in emotional health and freedom. CTT draws its name from 2 Corinthians 10:5 "We reject deception and every lie in contradiction to the true knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in submission to Jesus" (author’s paraphrase).

There are over 40 CTT exercises, but the ones in this book have been selected to get you started tapping through your emotions and seeing the benefit of taking your thoughts captive body-mind-spirit.

As you go through the exercises, you’ll likely find areas you need more inner healing. The appendix section at the back of the book has more resources to help you go deeper with each exercise.

You may also find that as you go through the emotional exercises, that your physical health improves as well. Tapping doesn’t work directly on physical issues, but many physical issues have an emotional component to them. When you release the emotional trigger, physical methods of healing often are more effective since they are no longer fighting the emotional root.

You can start using the exercises right away, but for best results, I recommend at least reading The CTT Process and How to Use the CTT Exercises chapters before you start tapping.

I pray you are blessed by this workbook and find greater levels of emotional wellness than you had dreamed were possible as you grow even closer to Jesus!

-Leah Lesesne

What is CTT?

"We reject deception and every lie in contradiction to the true knowledge of God, and take every thought captive in submission to our Lord, Jesus the Messiah." 

2 Corinthians 10:5 (Author’s paraphrase)

Captive Thought Therapy (CTT) is a Christian approach to healing that combines tapping with inner healing prayer, to help you take your thoughts captive and find greater breakthroughs in emotional and spiritual health. Our bodies have been there for every emotional pain we have felt. It only makes sense to engage body-mind-spirit together as we pursue healing.

By engaging the body in the healing process through tapping and the mind and spirit through focused thought and prayer:

We release emotions that have been physically stored and by focusing on specific thoughts and emotions (Psalm 32:3)

We displace lies that have kept us stuck in faulty patterns that fall short of the abundance of health God desires for us (1 Thessalonians 5:23)

We submit each thought and emotion to the authority of Jesus and allow his truth to reign over our minds, souls, spirits, and bodies. (2 Corinthians 10:5)

Where Captive Thought Therapy differs from other tapping protocols you may be familiar with is the three different rounds of tapping and the inner healing tools we use throughout each round. Unlike other tapping we also spend time asking God to fill us up with the good and declaring his truth over ourselves, instead of just focusing on clearing out the negative emotion. All of CTT is partnered with Holy Spirit through prayer to not only release the negative emotions and lies but also fill up with God’s truth and heavenly perspective.

Meridian Lines

Tapping therapies like CTT work by engaging the meridian line system of the body through acupressure (the tapping) while focusing on the emotional content causing distress. When we experience trauma, our bodies store an energetic signature of the emotions we feel within the meridian system, much like how a computer stores information as electric signatures on a hard drive. When these blockages are not dealt with, we have disproportionate emotional reactions to triggering experiences. The file on anger gets triggered and instead of just the anger appropriate to the situation, all the anger we’ve stored up comes out as well.

Meridian lines are the system of pathways in the body by which these energetic signatures flow and are stored. Energy meaning: electrical, physical, scientific energy – not mystical energy as some in the New Age movement describe it. They are the same system used in acupuncture, chiropractic, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) to alleviate physical and emotional symptoms. Acupuncture works with meridian lines by placing pins as little antennas to draw the flow of energy around any blockages in the meridian lines. Chiropractic uses physical manipulations to put the body back into alignment wherever the improper flow in the meridian lines has pushed