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I Am Love.

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Title: I Am Love.
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Just for today, I will respect my own and others boundaries. Just for today, I will be vulnerable with someone I trust. Just for today, I...

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 Just for today, I will respect my own and others boundaries. Just for today, I will be vulnerable with someone I trust. Just for today, I will take one compliment and hold it in my heart for more than just a fleeting moment. I will let it nurture me. Just for today, I will act in a way that I would admire in someone else. I Am a child of God. I Am a precious person. I Am a worthwhile person. I Am beautiful inside and outside. I Love Myself unconditionally. I can allow myself ample leisure time without feeling guilty. I deserve to be loved by myself and others. I Am Loved because I deserve Love. I Am a child of God and I deserve Love, Peace, Prosperity and Serenity. I forgive Myself for hurting Myself and others. I forgive Myself for letting others hurt me. I forgive Myself for accepting sex when I wanted Love. I Am willing to accept Love. I Am not alone.I Am one with God and the Universe. I Am whole and good. I Am capable of changing. The pain that I might feel by remembering can't be any worse than the pain i feel by knowing and not remembering. I Am enough. I Am Love.</blockquote>

I Am Love.

Just for today, I will respect my own and others boundaries. Just for today, I will be vulnerable with someone I trust. Just for today, I...

I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being.

Fraser Trevor

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Title: I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being.
Author: Fraser Trevor
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I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being I choose to live each moment with appreciation and complete acceptance of my own Divinity and beauty. I ...

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I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being I choose to live each moment with appreciation and complete acceptance of my own Divinity and beauty. I choose to appreciate and accept the beauty in all beings and the perfect divinity in each moment. I open my heart to the possibility of Love and benefit from every being and each moment. I purge myself of all doubt, negativity, judgmental tendencies, guilt, panic, and fearful thinking. I always seek that which I need to grow, to bud, to bloom, to blossom, to fruit, to bear seed. I dare to draw into myself the positive manifestation of each trial and difficulty; the rightness of every lesson. I breathe deeply and savor the love and benefit that surrounds and embraces my life as I live it each moment. I forgive myself with every breath I take and renew my transformative intentions with every beat of my heart. I glory in the goodness and rightness of all that I encounter and all that I Am. I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being. -Donna Henes

I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being.

I Am a Divine and Beautiful Being I choose to live each moment with appreciation and complete acceptance of my own Divinity and beauty. I ...

Freedom only exists when Love is present.

Fraser Trevor

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Title: Freedom only exists when Love is present.
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Freedom only exists when Love is present. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without own...

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Freedom only exists when Love is present.

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I give myself TOTAL PERMISSION TO FOLLOW MY HEART

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Title: I give myself TOTAL PERMISSION TO FOLLOW MY HEART
Author: Fraser Trevor
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to listen to my desires to love myself completely to make myself happy & joyful to be deeply fulfilled and live in purposeful ecstasy....

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 to listen to my desires to love myself completely to make myself happy & joyful to be deeply fulfilled and live in purposeful ecstasy. My body is an Open Receptive temple for Divinity, Joy, Bliss, Fulfillment & Soulful Purpose to embody within. I give myself COMPLETE PERMISSION to turn myself on to bathe in love & to embody the grace & wisdom of Feminine Divinity. I am an activated Goddess overflowing with an Abundance of Love, Joy, Bliss, Self-Love, Wisdom, Life Force Energy & Soulful Healing Creativity. I say YES to Fulfillment I say YES to Heart Wisdom I say YES to Authentic Desire I say YES to Joy I say YES to Creativity I say YES to Sensuality I say YES to My Soul's Purpose I say YES to Sexuality I say YES to Abundance I say YES to Freedom & Liberation I say YES to LIFE! Thank You! Keep sharing your Love....... <div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;">
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I give myself TOTAL PERMISSION TO FOLLOW MY HEART

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I am gonna shine, shine, shine, shine...

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I am gonna shine, shine, shine, shine... Just for today I will not worry what tomorrow will bring, no I’m gonna try something new and walk...

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I am gonna shine, shine, shine, shine... Just for today I will not worry what tomorrow will bring, no I’m gonna try something new and walk through this day Like I’ve got nothing to prove, yeah Although I have the best intentions I can't predict anyones reactions So I’ll just do my best I'll put one foot in front of the other Keep on moving forward And let God do the rest I don’t know what’s gonna happen That’s alright with me I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery I don’t know what’s gonna happen That’s alright with me I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery Just for today I’m telling the truth like it's going out of style I'm gonna swallow my pride and be who I am And I don’t care who don’t like it, yeah I feel the fear but I do it anyway I won't let it stand in the way I know what I must do There’s no guarantee that it’ll be easy But I know that it’ll be fulfilling And it's time for me to show improve It’s okay not to know Exploration is how we grow It’s ok to not have the answer Cuz sometimes It’s the question that matters I don’t know what’s gonna happen That’s alright with me I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery I don’t know what’s gonna happen That’s alright with me I open up my arms and I embrace the mystery<div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;">
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To "let go" does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

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To "let go" is not to enable, but to allow learning from natural consequences.</div>
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To "let go" is not to care for, but to care about.</div>
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To "let go" is not to fix, but to be supportive.</div>
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To "let go" is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.</div>
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To "let go" is not to be protective, it is to permit another to face reality. To "let go" is not to deny, but to accept. To "let go" is not to nag, scold or argue, but insteadto search out my own shortcomings and correct them. To "let go" is not to adjust everything to my desires,but to take each day as it comes and cherish myself in it. To "let go" is not to regret the past, but to grow and live for the future. To "let go" is to fear less and love more.  - Louise Hay</blockquote>
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To "let go" does not mean to stop caring, it means I can’t do it for someone else.

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The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself.

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Even though he once said he’d never write one, Neil Young has a memoir coming out … …and he’s quit drugs. The 66-year-old singer-songwrite...

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 Even though he once said he’d never write one, Neil Young has a memoir coming out … …and he’s quit drugs. The 66-year-old singer-songwriter recently sat down with David Carr of The New York Times to talk about his new autobiography,Waging Heavy Peace, and his year-long sobriety. (Of course, that’s just the condensed version; there’s a little more to the story – like the time he was arrested on drug charges with Eric Clapton and Stephen Stills, and the time he partied with Charles Manson). No doubt, the bits in Young’s autobiography that cover drug and alcohol abuse sound intense, but what about the past year he’s spent sober? Young tells Carr that drinking and using drugs was something he did for 40 years (“Now I want to see what it’s like to not do it. It’s just a different perspective.”), but he dives a little deeper into that “different perspective” in the book: The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself. I need a little grounding in something and I am looking for it everywhere.

The straighter I am, the more alert I am, the less I know myself and the harder it is to recognize myself.

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Actions that result in negative outcomes can seem so right when you’re angry, hurt or sad. When your boyfriend breaks up with you unexpect...

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 Actions that result in negative outcomes can seem so right when you’re angry, hurt or sad. When your boyfriend breaks up with you unexpectedly the day before Valentine’s Day, saying that he’s interested in your best friend, understandably, you may want to rip up every one of his prized and valuable baseball cards (not to mention what you might want to say to your ex-best friend). When your boss dictates that you have to work late on the evening you’ve planned your beloved grandmother’s 70th birthday celebration, you may want to give him a piece of your mind, even though you know you can’t afford to lose your job. Remembering and obsessing over all the ways your boss has been unfair to you will only fuel your anger. In cases of strong emotion with no immediate danger, making an emotional decision is not usually in your best interest. Emotions can squash logical thinking like an elephant sitting on a daisy, leading to future regrets and sometimes worse. So when you’re experiencing strong emotions and want to act on them–WAIT. Being mindful of what you’re thinking and feeling and being mindful of the consequences can help you decide your most effective response. However, when you’re upset it becomes difficult to remember the steps it might be helpful to take in order to begin thinking wisely. One reminder that I use is WAIT. WAIT Watch the emotion. Be mindful of your physical experience, what triggered the emotion, your thoughts about the emotions and/or the situation and any urges you have. The emotion may ebb and flow, getting stronger before it gradually decreases in strength. Remember you’re not your emotion. You’re not anger; you’re feeling anger. Step back and observe your experience. Accept that you’re having an emotion, perhaps one you don’t want to have. Acceptance means letting the emotion pass though and recognizing that you don’t have to act on it. Often our actions are geared towards getting rid of emotions. Resisting or attempting to get rid of emotions will likely make the situation worse. If you rip up the baseball cards, maybe you won’t be so angry. If you eat a quart of ice cream, maybe you won’t be as sad. But the quart of ice cream doesn’t change the situation you’re upset about. What Information does the emotion give you? Perhaps your anger tells you it’s time to make a change, maybe look for a new job. Or perhaps your anger is a signal to stand up for yourself in an effective way – one that maintains respect for yourself and others. Maybe the information is about lessons you can use for the future. Looking for the information your emotions provide can lead to effective actions that will help you move forward in ways that make your life better. Take Time to be Thoughtful. Consider what actions would be best, if any. Know that with time the emotions will pass. Most often there is no urgency to act even though that is what you might experience. Sometimes you only need a few minutes to breathe before you can think more clearly. Sometimes there is no action to take.<div class="zemanta-related" style="clear: both; margin-top: 20px; overflow: hidden;">
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“Earthly goods are given to be used, not to be collected. In the wilderness God gave Israel the manna every day, and they had no need to worry about food and drink. Indeed, if they kept any of the manna over until the next day, it went bad. In the same way, the disciple must receive his portion from God every day. If he stores it up as a permanent possession, he spoils not only the gift, but himself as well, for he sets his heart on accumulated wealth, and makes it a barrier between himself and God. Where our treasure is, there is our trust, our security, our consolation and our God. Hoarding is idolatry.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Cost-Discipleship-Dietrich-Bonhoeffer/dp/0020838506%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Ddreawarreco-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0020838506" rel="amazon" target="_blank" title="The Cost of Discipleship">The Cost of Discipleship</a></blockquote>
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Hoarding is idolatry

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We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

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Fear Free Zones, via trustworthy support the next evolution for the twelve steps

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Fear Free Zones, via trustworthy support the next evolutionary step for the twelve steps Restoring dignity and respect to sufferers from ...

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Fear Free Zones, via trustworthy support the next evolutionary  step for the twelve steps Restoring dignity and respect to sufferers from the emotional distress of addiction. We are adult human beings, with full human rights, except we are currently operating on infantile survival strategies. We need help to recover – we’ve done what we can, and now need help with the remainder. In other words, it is essential to enlist the determination of the members to deal with the problem from the inside. This is a form of Emotional Education a reality check .There is no danger that the member does not wish to rid themselves of the painful symptoms – they just need help, support and guidance as to how to do this. Truth, Trust and Consent are essential ingredients, since the co-operation and determination of the member is crucial to any re-evaluation of the ‘frozen terror of addiction’. Bringing the emotional survival strategies of twelve step recovery up to date, and the symptoms evaporate. The key is to appreciate and convey that every emotional resource is being used by the member to prevent the dreaded truth coming out – the process of denial is heaviest in the best endowed mentally. The members are fooling themselves as to the true root of the pain. We have grasped that any and all addiction damage is well and truly over – but some members do not. They still inhabit a nursery of nightmares or the fog of addiction where abuse or trauma of addiction is going to happen ‘next’ and the only remedy they know is not to look – to deny. Reverse this, and the glories of adulthood recovery blossom. Related articles <a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/fear-free-zones-via-trustworthy-support.html"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEj3IB_0Eqmtxq9cLUS3AOEut27tWyfwOnvtL3jwfFnxk4poD_OYhwLRnj0CEqmD_DtVu1Mb3F5XAZZ3zxYOj0jQk0QBCtDCMQZEnhxTB2LWZpaN2wpIii_c606L9zx2k4XZMTPcnybB=" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/fear-free-zones-via-trustworthy-support.html">Fear Free Zones, via trustworthy support the next evolution for the twelve steps</a> <a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/08/spiritual-awakening-ultimate-aim-of.html"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhNLRarKXRo-VKSy9Aji8B9005N5gvlq2-6RYVt4GwKRsFVRVpEziLGFhIIik_A5U4WBC54OJ6Qnx8iinGT1sxuRNgehcyWWhiWFYggWs83_YfUiNiEmcuADTk3cK46xF4BsRGJOF_1lg=" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/08/spiritual-awakening-ultimate-aim-of.html">Spiritual Awakening The ultimate aim of the twelve steps</a> <a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/dream-warriors-off-days.html"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjf67OFBhOM6P-4nR15TSO_EgAUYcKIr2fGwQb427Nq1epzQFjLLVJXGSvHsePcuGMp8x3nLUPatfxtXI-SrclIfXPiOTSTglcastznHoX-CJ1l8ZTk3V9sGZ8Kj7c5s94jXLrFH_G6uw=" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/dream-warriors-off-days.html">Dream Warriors off days.</a> <a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/08/working-twelve-step-program-when-youre.html"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjFRyxWiT9wn33c6CCviSbp0zu_PnfcANJeoNQKn6Gxx3dPzdswV1eFCyeADOHjfnszhxJmLTCzVSI5Do89bBGeVAFUdBxjCBdVerFkX2faTJYJHyoguh1W0ikEsQ1qlsKbJmNsxaRO=" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/08/working-twelve-step-program-when-youre.html">Working a Twelve Step program when you're not sure about God</a> <a href="http://counsellorsforum.blogspot.com/2012/07/twelve-steps-and-four-noble-truths.html"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjgWq1_4RmHEk9itGzjfslN2UkV_rDBbkA2kNqpR74nM9lQwlTmh14wdBGzJd9aPqdVL6sXDKH661ibBTZtZjd0bHPGrKV-PcHyG1Qnm8vjLzoeEDCEWL-P4e0aSTq0VBuLHXFaT-Kp=" /></a><a href="http://counsellorsforum.blogspot.com/2012/07/twelve-steps-and-four-noble-truths.html">Twelve Steps and the Four Noble Truths</a> <a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/meeting-cameron-steps-in-four-hours.html"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhNpoJAlXLFpabBX7K-j7c-tlx8ymdGBWN3FhtybbciT8fp9zwQ7ayHS1lK6DmMWofHjjRTMGqCP3yldW4rdtXl0f8eBKP-4l7e9BPgUUBH2OS7YJwicY3F_-HdNc5qFUqo4Ds7coiEuA=" /></a><a href="http://galatictours.blogspot.com/2012/09/meeting-cameron-steps-in-four-hours.html">Meeting Cameron THE STEPS IN FOUR HOURS</a> <a href="http://www.zemanta.com/?px"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh_X3tl6-H7MQwu18u_dG7QTNI6YYarSrn55-qVqzan5TL4jCzriCH6N-7ozmWalZ7tFZxpTZZ_cqEg1D8MGTQ8fOr4n5qvUpPkKCuwq5fRv2153Op8lNdQgMBB4jXEKHztO3Fc7lynLUmu92OuftbqlIm27u-gVAbfxFI93CLz6JPtfhifalxgtZBe1ebnKQ=" /></a>

Fear Free Zones, via trustworthy support the next evolution for the twelve steps

Fear Free Zones, via trustworthy support the next evolutionary step for the twelve steps Restoring dignity and respect to sufferers from ...

We are all born Lovable, Sociable and Non-Violent and can/need to return there, Fear-free zones eliminate mental distress

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Title: We are all born Lovable, Sociable and Non-Violent and can/need to return there, Fear-free zones eliminate mental distress
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1. The mind is the most important human organ – legs are the organ for walking, the mind for socially cooperating. 2. Intent is the most i...

We are all born Lovable, Sociable and Non-Violent and can/need to return there, Fear-free zones eliminate mental distress

1. The mind is the most important human organ – legs are the organ for walking, the mind for socially cooperating. 2. Intent is the most i...

Trauma evokes a cognitive fog in the child Withins mind

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Title: Trauma evokes a cognitive fog in the child Withins mind
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Trauma evokes a cognitive fog in the child Withins mind which then perpetuates itself, sometimes indefinitely, blocked there because only ...

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Trauma evokes a cognitive fog in the child Withins mind which then perpetuates itself, sometimes indefinitely, blocked there because only unimpaired cognition can clear it. This has two main consequences. One, it renders the conventional medical approach counter-productive. Two, since this fog prevents sufferers from knowing that the trauma has stopped, it provides an exceptionally clear target for treatment – convincing the sufferer that the abuse is now over. Closer examination of the nature of healing, leads to a review of what distinguishes living processes from the dead, a distinction that has yet to receive an acceptable scientific formulation. A revised medical model for psychiatric pathology is described in which fear is seen as the pathogen analogous to the cholera ‘germ’ – the conclusion being that just at you cannot get cholera as long as the sanitation remains intact, so all psychiatric symptoms remit in a fear-free zone. Existing clinical evidence for this is briefly reviewed. =========== ‘DENIAL’ The key to unravelling psychiatry is understanding trauma. The human mind is peculiarly vulnerable to trauma, especially when young – a blind-terror is induced which turns cognition off. Cognition ceases. The mind is ‘ill’. It pays the child not to know what is happening, or who is doing what, to him or her. This is variously described as ‘denial’, dissociation, projection, repression – what have you – the upshot is that the child daren’t look, so cannot see. Repeat, DAREN’T LOOK, SO CANNOT SEE. The child works on the malperception that “full cognition or visualisation of this event is TERMINAL”. And once the child stops seeing, and this can happen quite suddenly especially pre-verbally, then they are thereafter incapable of telling whether or not the trauma has stopped. “This isn’t happening to me” leads inexorably to the inability to say or think or believe that “this has stopped happening to me” – or even very clearly what “this” is. Two things follow. (1) The medical profession is hamstrung by it. (2) The 100% remedy for it is assured – you and I know it has stopped, and our (simple but not easy) task therefore is to persuade the sufferer that today’s reality prevails, that yesterday’s trauma is now over. But we must accomplish this without ever being either parental, or re-traumatising, both of which are relentlessly easy to do. Take (1). “Listen to the patient, s/he’s telling you the diagnosis”, said William Osler, arguably the finest clinician of the last century. But those who have been traumatised are determinedly not even telling themselves. They will swear black and blue that ‘nothing happened’, that their childhood was ‘magical’, that parents could never have been better, and how wrong it would be to breathe a word of criticism of them, and so forth. To admit otherwise is to re-traumatise themselves instantly, as easily as can any ham-fisted professional breezing insensitively in. Their only remedy against the pain of abuse, is to ‘have it NOT happen’ – so woe betide those who wish, prematurely, to prove that it did. Sadly this ‘remedy’ of ‘daren’t look, so cannot see’ which was the only one available to any small infant, is now precisely what gums things up in adulthood. So the orthodox medical approach is scuppered. It’s like a man with a broken leg, vociferously denying it’s painful, or that he has a limp – the customer is king, even when they’re obviously in deep trouble. And doctors have no licence to treat ‘complaints’ that are not complained about. But they do have a licence to link the items complained about, to earlier ‘unseen’ problems – but only, and forever, with the sufferer’s consent. This is uphill work, since it is invariably coupled with prodigious resistance from the sufferer against doing any such thing – and there you have today’s doctor’s dilemma. So a different clinical approach is required – not an easy thing to ask of a profession steeped in tradition since Hippocrates. Instead of taking what the patient says at face value, the clinician needs to ‘listen’ exceptionally carefully, to ‘hear’ the bits that are being left out, or stumbled over, and to bring these, with invariable courtesy, and scrupulous consent, to the sufferer’s attention. Never in a parental or authoritarian way, but always as an informal offering, on a take it or leave it basis. To do otherwise, is to cast yourself unequivocally into the role of the adult abuser in the sufferer’s distorted perception, and thereby reliably invite anger and rage commensurate with the abuse, here visited (irrationally) on your own ham-fisted self. The abuse did occur, despite the ‘denial’ that it did not – but more importantly, it has actually stopped, which the sufferer also actively denies. Pressing this prematurely can be disastrous if not fatal. The dilemma is especially sharp when questions arise as to whether the abuse did in reality occur, or not –the ‘false memory syndrome’ quagmire. However, in practice only the severity or otherwise of the current symptoms are relevant clinically – it’s the remnants today that matter, not precise detail of how they arose – and in all cases they need eliminating, 100%. The more severe the symptoms and the more life-threatening (which is the doctor’s prime concern) – then the more solid is the evidence for past trauma. It’s not what actually occurred, which is less important clinically, it’s what remains today from what occurred then. Here again, the absolute pre-requisite for resolving any such dilemma is a sound, respectful, but above all trustworthy clinical rapport. THE REMEDY So to (2), the remedy. Every child falls over (and for some, mum dies), and it hurts. For those who receive immediate, reliable and trustworthy support, childhood pain is ephemeral, and psychiatric symptoms few. Where support is delayed, unreliable or deceptive, long-term effects can be gruesome. Indeed they tend to last until such time as the support that was initially missing is made good – which is the only legitimate objective of today’s therapy. A deficiency model for psychiatric symptoms. You know with 100% certainty that the trauma is over – the sufferer in front of you does not. Your task is to convey this belief, this ‘fact’ from you to them. So a pre-requisite on your part is to believe it yourself, at least to believe that this is the problem, the chief problem, if not the only problem. Since this runs counter to medical training – let’s take another concrete medical example. If, as a doctor, you are asked to heal cut skin, you have no doubt as to what you need to do. Keep it clean and dry, so as to avoid pathogens, especially infection. No problem here. You don’t actually do the healing yourself, your uncontroversial task is to facilitate it – you can make it better, or you can make it worse – but the actual process of healing is out of your hands. Moving from lesions of the skin, to those of the mind – the sufferer in front of you is still being traumatised today, mentally. This elementary clinical fact took me decades to grasp, and even today surprises. The abuse, as far as the sufferer is concerned, continues, indeed it is about to happen ‘next’. The paralysing symptoms are not so much ‘flash-backs’, as ‘flash-surfacings’ – the original trauma has become ‘frozen’ as in a ‘freeze-frame’ – it never went away. Cognition, as mentioned, has ceased. Mentally, the sufferer is therefore blindly (and impotently) waiting to be raped, tortured, kidnapped, abandoned, starved, emotionally deprived, or otherwise dumped at death’s door, all over again. And that’s all. The trauma has never stopped in their minds – this is the lesion, the pathology. Cognition just doesn’t apply – it’s not functioning, it’s been put on hold, as if their life depended on it. And until it starts again, all manner of weird and wonderful symptoms are concocted, limited only by the creative imagination of the human mind – their immediate effect is to befuddle the doctor with endlessly variegated symptoms, their ultimate purpose to defer the inevitable ‘end’ which the sufferer is convinced lies just around the corner, perpetuated irrationally by the persistent cognitive fog. As usual in any practical application, certain rules-of-thumb prove themselves more useful than others. Video can help, since actually seeing ‘blocking’, and indeed ‘unblocking’ or ‘blossoming’ as described, tends to be more convincing than textual descriptions. There really is no substitute for direct hands-on experience. A NEO-MEDICAL MODEL FOR PSYCHIATRY What have gambolling lambs and blossoming bluebells to do with psychiatry? Well, it’s about being alive –neither can gambol nor blossom after they die. The scientific community has been disgracefully slow to grasp the elemental difference between being alive and being dead, and sadly today’s psychiatry suffers as a result. Though scientists have cheerfully taken Relativity and Uncertainty in their stride, they persist in fumbling the difference between in vivo and in vitro. Even something as abstruse and hard to come by as anti-matter is nowadays quite acceptable, whereas the most vital thing about being alive – its adaptability – is not. Starting with the simplest possible example. Living skin heals, but dead skin doesn’t. The chemicals are the same, the physics is not. Thermodynamics needs updating. All non-living things fall to bits, over time, their disorganisation or ‘entropy’ inexorably increases. Contrariwise all living things organise – they exhibit the property of ‘negative-entropy’ – ‘nentropy’ – until they die, when they don’t. The medical profession relies on nentropy, or something closely akin to it, for whatever healing it does manage to achieve – so if you dismiss this property of life as being ‘unscientific’, too vague or just irrelevant, then you not only jeopardise clinical progress, but also condemn psychiatry to enduring nihilism. ‘Nentropy’ is hardly the most poetic way of distinguishing the living from the dead – but non-scientists will be astonished to learn that no prominent scientist, and certainly no theoretical physicist even attempts it. In practice, the notion of nentropy circumvents problems of teleology, of creationism, of theology and of a ‘life force’. Its chief drawback is its vagueness – how to define it. Worse, this is a problem that cannot be solved by ever tighter definition. Indeed there is a sort of Verbal Uncertainty Principle at work here – the tighter the definition, the less the meaning. Thus the three most important words of all – pain, fear and intent – have maximum meaning but zero definition, yet we use them perforce every day, if not every minute. If ‘pain’ were proscribed from everyday medical vocabularies, on the grounds of being hopelessly indefinable, which it is, this would relegate a rather noble profession to veterinarianism. So to the wider picture. The medical model works. Cholera no longer decimates, provided we keep the sanitation intact; even AIDS is relenting. However, present-day psychiatry, where suicide now kills more than breast and prostate cancer combined, needs a refurbished model, one that takes account of nentropy or its equivalent – we need a neo-medical model. If you cannot avail yourself of a scientific basis for choice, intent or emotion, you risk ending up with the notion that humans are mindless unfeeling robots, painfully close to the condition today’s so-called anti-psychotics are designed to induce. Those who pass laws mandating the use of such drugs, and indeed those who prescribe them, should each swallow a single dose so that they know from direct personal experience just what these chemicals can do to the human soul, or to our nentropy. If skin can heal itself with minimum non-drug support, why can’t minds? The medical methodology that works so well with cholera – keep the pathogens at bay – works equally well in psychiatry, given a practical psychiatric pathogen. Pain is the commonest of all symptoms in medical practice, so it is not surprising that its mental equivalent, fear, holds the same key role in psychiatry. It’s simple really – where leg pain obviously stops you walking properly, so fear stops you thinking straight. This is trauma at work – a terrified infant stops thinking – and threats you cannot think about, you can never resolve. WHAT NEXT Just as aseptic surgery saves more lives than its predecessors, so fear-free zones save more minds than current alternatives. But as with the battles over germ theory in the late 1800’s, it is not easy to persuade the medical profession and significant others, that an invisible, amorphous, and utterly indefinable pathogen can inflict so much havoc. Kaiser Wilhelm’s Chief Chemist shot himself in 1901, because he got cholera so spectacularly wrong. And male midwives refused point blank to wash their hands between deliveries – it was a point of pride in their professional training. Many, including psychiatric staff, dispense fear to their charges, as a matter of course, “for their own good”, an approach Alice Miller castigated as such, in 1980. Suggesting that fear is the crucial psychiatric pathogen is decidedly uphill, especially since there’ll never be a microscope or Petri dish to help – only willing, observant, benevolent human beings. So let’s follow an abbreviated Koch’s postulate, and look at the available clinical evidence. A basic fear or terror, can readily be found clinically in every conceivable psychiatric disorder – from paranoia, psychopathy, anorexia and other self-harms, bulimia, manic-depression, psychosis, bi-polar, and in all versions of schizophrenia and in all varieties of personality disorder. Improving on Koch, there is already adequate clinical evidence that eliminating this pathogen by means of establishing fear-free zones, cures psychiatric disease. The early Quaker Retreat in York, 1796-1850s, had better rates of curing psychosis than ever since [www.madinameria.com], as have Loren Mosher’s Soteria Houses [loc cit]. At a recent Hearing Voices Network conference, wonderfully brave individuals gave graphic accounts of overcoming gross trauma, thereby eliminating their earlier severe psychoses. Just as the antidote for cholera is sanitation, so the antidote for fear is trust. And, since you cannot get cholera if the sanitation remains intact, so psychiatric symptoms cannot persist in fully fear-free zones. Essentially it’s the healing hand of kindness, with insight. The challenge is not lack of evidence, it’s drawing conclusions, joining up the dots, lifting the cognitive fog. Human Rights are therapeutic. which though rightly revered in our wider society, are generally regarded as too ‘unscientific’ to prevail in current psychiatric settings. Sadly today’s psychiatry poses the real underlying “TRAUMA CHALLENGE” – what you daren’t look at, you simply cannot see.

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Emotions are the most important thing in any human life

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Emotions are the most important thing in any human life – and none of them are remotely definable. You cannot define what an emotion is. ...

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Emotions are the most important thing in any human life – and none of them are remotely definable. You cannot define what an emotion is.So my resolution of that was to put them all on a spectrum. This end [to the right] you have joy, delight, I don’t mind, happy, positive emotions – you like that. Zing [to the left] – negative emotions – fear, terror, whatever – and in between you have guilt, diddley, diddley, diddley. But what I found was – clinically – that you need to concern yourself only with fear.</blockquote>

Emotions are the most important thing in any human life

Emotions are the most important thing in any human life – and none of them are remotely definable. You cannot define what an emotion is. ...

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