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“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”
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Salvaged Faith
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Wellness: The Best Defense is A Good Offense
Wellness: The Mind Those who know me have heard me use an expression in greeting and in saying for a time good-bye: "Be Well." The use of these words started long ago as an affirmation of what I'd dreamed I might one day be. These days, although I continue to wish for wellness in my personal an family life, I use these words as a blessing for others: When I say to anyone, "Be Well": This is a sincere short-prayer I share for us all. |
After attending a view mental health groups of late, I'm pleased to see education being shared that encourages those of us in trouble to learn some things from Eastern Philosophies.
It is from turning for some education of Buddhist philosophy that Jung's take on the 'why' our mental processes might be fowled up made deeper sense. What Buddhist practices today are offering to the mental health treatment community and to those of us hoping for recovery can't be diminished in terms of their value to us.
Therefore, in addressing wellness as it relates to 'the mind': I'm completely personally comfortable with all that Buddhism offers currently to the mental health treatment community. Other faiths, like Christianity, for instance, had taught me that anything that might come my way from other religions was to be avoided at all cost.
Here's that word again I've fallen in love with these days: BOLLOCKS.
I think the Buddha, frankly, is rolling perhaps today in his tomb, along with, I suspect, the Jesus we were introduced to via religion, who is putting his face in his hands and shaking his head at us all, considering what we've done to institutionalize their high-value lessons to us historically.
I am not one who any longer puts upon others 'whom' they are to believe in, or not believe in.
I share this simply to point out that although it took me a long time to accept, given my own Christian upbringing as a rural Canadian kid, to turn for guidance towards Buddhist practices as an effort to improve our experience with mental health is NOT something I any longer consider to be a sin.
The Buddha, as he's been shared with humanity, and now with me: I believe he represents the best psychologist one could ever have privilege to get to know about.
To work fully with Jung is an adventure unto itself. Where Jung is concerned, I'll simply leave behind this single crumb with hope that you may find his take on things as valuable to your own recovery as his work has been to my own:
The Carl G. Jung Center: What is Depth-Psychology
A discussion of Buddhism's contribution to my own recovery is best left, as well, to perhaps a much longer blog-post one day. I wish to share here, however, for those perhaps seeking out guidance having had little exposure to wellness practices like Buddhist philosophy offers this bit of school-of-hard-knocks advise:
If I'd have ignored this material, I would have accepted doing myself a very deep and tragic disservice.
With the support of your helpers (trauma-informed helpers) consider exploring the philosophy of The Buddha for yourself. I only recommend that others consider working with the practices the philosophy and it's current teachers have to share with us.
We're all hearing I think about Mindfulness. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is gaining wings today as a support to our wellness for both physical and mental health:
Learning mindfulness-based, stress-reduction strategies represents a sliver of what meditative practices have to offer us towards being well. However, it is the most discussed practice today, main-stream, and I can attest from personal experience to the validity of incorporating mindful living, and mindfulness-based, stress-reduction practices into my own recovery journey.
So for 'the mind' I offer it here as a STARTING point for those willing to consider adding mindfulness to your own education.
I've written my take on the practice of mindfulness on another page. I'll share that here as an introduction for visitors. Learning these practices, as are offered with the Palouse, Mindfulness, Online (Free) eight-week introduction, was a game-changer for me in my own recovery:
I'll share here a pieces of writing I put to the blog as these principles started bubbling up around me as something I needed to take a look at. First steps in learning any meditative practices requires stepping-stones. In this piece I offer my take on two important recovery tools, breath-work and grounding, that were the first steps I took towards working with my mind in a way that intends to assist in restoration of inner-harmony:
(More soon).
It is from turning for some education of Buddhist philosophy that Jung's take on the 'why' our mental processes might be fowled up made deeper sense. What Buddhist practices today are offering to the mental health treatment community and to those of us hoping for recovery can't be diminished in terms of their value to us.
Therefore, in addressing wellness as it relates to 'the mind': I'm completely personally comfortable with all that Buddhism offers currently to the mental health treatment community. Other faiths, like Christianity, for instance, had taught me that anything that might come my way from other religions was to be avoided at all cost.
Here's that word again I've fallen in love with these days: BOLLOCKS.
I think the Buddha, frankly, is rolling perhaps today in his tomb, along with, I suspect, the Jesus we were introduced to via religion, who is putting his face in his hands and shaking his head at us all, considering what we've done to institutionalize their high-value lessons to us historically.
I am not one who any longer puts upon others 'whom' they are to believe in, or not believe in.
I share this simply to point out that although it took me a long time to accept, given my own Christian upbringing as a rural Canadian kid, to turn for guidance towards Buddhist practices as an effort to improve our experience with mental health is NOT something I any longer consider to be a sin.
The Buddha, as he's been shared with humanity, and now with me: I believe he represents the best psychologist one could ever have privilege to get to know about.
To work fully with Jung is an adventure unto itself. Where Jung is concerned, I'll simply leave behind this single crumb with hope that you may find his take on things as valuable to your own recovery as his work has been to my own:
The Carl G. Jung Center: What is Depth-Psychology
A discussion of Buddhism's contribution to my own recovery is best left, as well, to perhaps a much longer blog-post one day. I wish to share here, however, for those perhaps seeking out guidance having had little exposure to wellness practices like Buddhist philosophy offers this bit of school-of-hard-knocks advise:
If I'd have ignored this material, I would have accepted doing myself a very deep and tragic disservice.
With the support of your helpers (trauma-informed helpers) consider exploring the philosophy of The Buddha for yourself. I only recommend that others consider working with the practices the philosophy and it's current teachers have to share with us.
We're all hearing I think about Mindfulness. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is gaining wings today as a support to our wellness for both physical and mental health:
Learning mindfulness-based, stress-reduction strategies represents a sliver of what meditative practices have to offer us towards being well. However, it is the most discussed practice today, main-stream, and I can attest from personal experience to the validity of incorporating mindful living, and mindfulness-based, stress-reduction practices into my own recovery journey.
So for 'the mind' I offer it here as a STARTING point for those willing to consider adding mindfulness to your own education.
I've written my take on the practice of mindfulness on another page. I'll share that here as an introduction for visitors. Learning these practices, as are offered with the Palouse, Mindfulness, Online (Free) eight-week introduction, was a game-changer for me in my own recovery:
I'll share here a pieces of writing I put to the blog as these principles started bubbling up around me as something I needed to take a look at. First steps in learning any meditative practices requires stepping-stones. In this piece I offer my take on two important recovery tools, breath-work and grounding, that were the first steps I took towards working with my mind in a way that intends to assist in restoration of inner-harmony:
(More soon).
