Fantasy to Flesh Pt 2

We’re going deeper in Part 2. Paying attention to the symbols and story-lines in your sexual fantasies often point towards a treasure within you.

Sound twisted? 

Look to the “Homework” section below for key questions to help you untwist your temptation from your truest desires.

Let's dive in.

Highlights:

Your imagination is given to you by God as a creative force.

When your brain stirs up a sexual story line or sexual scenes, even though it’s directing you towards something sinful, it’s also intended to create something.

Begin to pay attention to the storyline or the theme of the fantasy.

Temptation taps into a God given desire that you are made for however it points you in a direction that it won’t be fulfilled.

Untwist the fantasies to better understand what they’re trying to reveal about what we are made for.

So often, our sexual fantasies are trying to resolve something about the story that we have lived or the story that we are living.

The sexual fantasy, in a way, is trying to rewrite the story with a different ending.

Jay Stringer, author of “Unwanted,” refers to sexual fantasy as a way to reverse some damage that’s been done or to repeat what’s been done but change the power dynamic of it.

So often, the sexual things we struggle with are not at the core about sex but more about human relational experiences that become sexualized.

Imagination is being hijacked by temptation but deeper down it’s trying to communicate a problem that needs resolution.

Homework:

(This is spiritually mature work. We’re here to help you process and do this work.)

Why is my brain trying to create something like this?

Why is my mind or my heart trying to point me in the direction of that story?

Look at your fantasies through these two questions to get a better picture of what they’re going after:

What’s the storyline of our fantasy?

What’s symbolic in our fantasies?

In my fantasy, who has the power? Me or the other person? Why?

Consider the typical things you’re aroused to in your fantasy: is there a specific type of person? Or a specific body part? Size or shape? 

What does that body part symbolize?

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