The political threads are just for entertainment, Grim, a place to illustrate the freedom of thought therapy can bring. Politics is an empty vessel, from one point of view. It's human understanding that's needed to save the individual and the world. I am always in the religious, psychological, and philosophical threads for that reason. Perhaps you haven't noticed because you are more partial to the political ones. I don't know.
Anyway, I wish you well. One of the most immediate and powerful releases that therapy can bring, in my opinion, is a release from a limited into a more general understanding of your condition. As I said, we are all unique, we suffer from particular instances, perhaps, just for example, that we've experienced in our lives, that we don't talk about and don't share, and often even don't realize how much we have been affected by. But while so much is unique, the overall pattern, the cause and effect thingi is very much the same from person to person. We suffer from guilt and shame and negative self image and other things all in the same way but with twists just in origin. We all can feel so alone, and yet we are all the same. It an come as a profound relief to know, not only that we aren't alone, but that people recover alot from the pain they carry just by exposing it to the light of day and seeing that it's completely normal that they felt as they do.
Just as a single example, a child who gets angry with a parent for this or that reason, and something happens to that parent, something really bad like death, the child, because of the associative power of the mind, will, and can't avoid the feeling that his anger was the cause of that parent's death. The psychological damage something like this can do is profound. It is not only profound, it make take a huge excavation of ones feelings, from depression and rage and guilt and remorse etc to trace back as the source of ones 'sickness'. Letting out all that is like lancing a boil and the knowledge that countless others suffer from the same thing and have gone through the same healing process helps us to understand and let go.
Something similar can happen in a million ways but the pattern and the cure are all the same. What we try to do in life is to deny that we are guilty. That's the catch 22 because we aren't guilty, but we feel we are. It's in feeling, in feeling how guilty we really do feel, as in this example, that we can begin to heal, because we have dropped the pretense and can begin to truly grieve for what we ahve lost. Grief is painful, but it is real. To feel what is real is to be alive. To be alive, eventually, to experience joy. We were all born these beautiful happy little apes that love to swing from trees and share bananas, or something like that. 😀
Anyway, I wish you well. One of the most immediate and powerful releases that therapy can bring, in my opinion, is a release from a limited into a more general understanding of your condition. As I said, we are all unique, we suffer from particular instances, perhaps, just for example, that we've experienced in our lives, that we don't talk about and don't share, and often even don't realize how much we have been affected by. But while so much is unique, the overall pattern, the cause and effect thingi is very much the same from person to person. We suffer from guilt and shame and negative self image and other things all in the same way but with twists just in origin. We all can feel so alone, and yet we are all the same. It an come as a profound relief to know, not only that we aren't alone, but that people recover alot from the pain they carry just by exposing it to the light of day and seeing that it's completely normal that they felt as they do.
Just as a single example, a child who gets angry with a parent for this or that reason, and something happens to that parent, something really bad like death, the child, because of the associative power of the mind, will, and can't avoid the feeling that his anger was the cause of that parent's death. The psychological damage something like this can do is profound. It is not only profound, it make take a huge excavation of ones feelings, from depression and rage and guilt and remorse etc to trace back as the source of ones 'sickness'. Letting out all that is like lancing a boil and the knowledge that countless others suffer from the same thing and have gone through the same healing process helps us to understand and let go.
Something similar can happen in a million ways but the pattern and the cure are all the same. What we try to do in life is to deny that we are guilty. That's the catch 22 because we aren't guilty, but we feel we are. It's in feeling, in feeling how guilty we really do feel, as in this example, that we can begin to heal, because we have dropped the pretense and can begin to truly grieve for what we ahve lost. Grief is painful, but it is real. To feel what is real is to be alive. To be alive, eventually, to experience joy. We were all born these beautiful happy little apes that love to swing from trees and share bananas, or something like that. 😀
