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Schizophrenia

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Added a few Tint Buddha articles to that other thread ...

Stop thinking that you have to be just like someone else, or to match their apparent success.
Instead, recognize that you are unique. Form your own personalized criteria of success.

Stop thinking that wealth, looks, intelligence, talent, and status equate to fulfillment.
Instead, make room for criteria such as peace of mind, joy, family happiness, love, and self-actualization.

28 Ways We Sabotage Our Happiness (And How to Stop)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Ron Unger psychosis recovery -

Turns up quite a few? -

“There has recently been a shift from conceptualizing a voice as a sensory stimulus that the hearer holds beliefs about, to a voice as a person-like stimulus which the hearer has a relationship with. Understanding voice hearing experiences within relational frameworks has resulted in the development of psychological therapies that focus upon the experience of relating to and with distressing voices. This webinar explores lessons learnt from the development, experience and evaluation of one of these therapies – Relating Therapy. These lessons are located within the broader context of other relationally-based therapies that seek to support recovery through the use of digital enhancement (Avatar Therapy) and dynamic interaction with voices (Talking With Voices).”

From this page -

Don’t React – Choose How to Relate to Distressing Voices! - Recovery from "Schizophrenia" and other "Psychotic Disorders"

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
More from Tiny -

13 Things to Do Instead of Comparing Yourself to Others

Your life might have been messy and bumpy. It might have been colored by mistakes, anxiety, and fear. I know mine has. But all those things were catalysts to help you become a better, wiser, and more courageous version of yourself. So, embrace your story and how much you’ve grown from it. Be proud of what you’ve done and for wanting to create a better life for yourself.

:)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Busy day - more emails -

More 4 the click here page & thread? -

enlightenedbeings.com happiness - several look promising!

Fractal enlightenment happiness?

Happiness examine your own mind

Stop sabotaging your own happiness

Most of our goals are aimed at finding some version of happiness. Whether it’s getting a kick-*** job, finding a loving partner, or making the perfect frittata, the end goal of every endeavor is happiness. The problem is that our best efforts to find it simply dig us deeper into the ditch.

When it comes to happiness, most of us self-sabotage. In fact, it’s part of our everyday lives. Are you ready to get out of your own way?

15 Signs You're Sabotaging Your Happiness

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Also - The New Psychology of Happiness

Here's a little taste -

In my first book, The Undefeated Mind, I argue that the pursuit of happiness isn’t "merely an inalienable right with which we’re endowed or an activity we’re capable of choosing; it’s a psychological imperative we must obey." The notion that nothing is more important to us than happiness—in fact, that nothing can be—doesn’t come just from observations about the human condition throughout history by writers, philosophers, and poets, but also from a modern scientific understanding of the way the brains of animals evolved to promote survival. We know that animals don’t fight to survive because they grasp the meaning of death; they fight to survive because their brains evolved pleasure and pain circuits that motivate them to do so. And though we humans do have the capacity to understand the meaning of death and are therefore capable of being motivated by more complex incentives than pleasure and pain, we remain incapable of shrugging off our evolutionary heritage. Pleasure and pain—or rather, their more recent evolutionary offspring, happiness and suffering--remain the core incentives our brains use to motivate us.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Painful process ego death -

For my last talk of 2017, I felt like talking about the pain of ego death.

Dissolving the unconscious ego can be surprisingly painful. It's particularly painful if a person doesn't know that that is what is happening, and they are usually doing a lot of intentional resisting. Even when someone does know they're releasing their ego, a lot of unconscious resistance goes on. That, by itself, can be quite intense. For some people--particularly those with trauma in their background--this pain can be almost crippling.

More at this site -

Recording: How to Handle the Pain of Ego Death

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Try - Tiny Buddha darkness - or -

And it’s pretty easy to be mindful of the present when things are going well. A delicious meal, beautiful music, a picturesque view, time spent with good friends . . . why would you not want to be fully in the moment to savor these kinds of things?

Even when you’re not having wonderful peak experiences—when things are “just okay”—present-moment mindfulness isn’t all that tough. You have to remember to practice it, but when you do, you’re in a relatively pleasant state.

But what about when you’re in a difficult relationship? Or seriously ill? Or stuck in a job you can’t stand? Or deeply worried about a friend or family member?

How to Be Present When the Present Is Difficult

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Do You Know the First 7 Signs of Emotional Meltdown?

When we’re in balance, we can usually avoid responding in an extreme manner. But sometimes we snap and go out of control. (I still have a dent in my dining table where I banged down a coffee mug and then hurled it through a window pane, before yelling at a long-ago boyfriend to get out of the house…NOW!)

I looked up the meaning of the word ‘meltdown’. It means a severe overheating of a nuclear reactor core, resulting in melting of the core and escape of radiation.

That’s a useful image. Because when we’re happy, our resilience is high and we can cope with difficult situations. That’s because we have the strength to protect the core of our being. But when our spirits are low, the ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ hit the core of our being.

More at that site -

Do You Know the First 7 Signs of Emotional Meltdown?

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Staying present during difficult times! -

Before we try to answer that question, it's necessary to understand the intrinsic nature of the mind.

The basic nature of the mind is to dwell in the past or to worry about the future. Our uneasiness about what’s to come is actually our strategy to prepare for the future – our mind’s ingenious way of ensuring that we’re equipped to survive. Without such readiness, the mind can’t prepare the body to thrive.

So how does this future-oriented mind know exactly what to prepare for the seemingly unknown? The mind relies on one thing to predict what’s to come: the past. Ruminating over the accumulated contents of the mind, including both acquired skills and inherent tendencies passed on by prior generations, we use mental shortcuts, allowing the past to shape the future.

More here -

Why Being Present Is So Difficult (And What You Can Do About It)

Enjoy!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Interesting blog about enlightened living -

Contrary to popular belief, human beings cannot multitask. What we are capable of is handling a number of serial tasks in rapid succession, or mixing automatic tasks with those that are not so automatic. That's one of the reasons that the NTSB reports that texting while driving is the functional equivalent of driving with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit. You just can't effectively attend to two things at once - even the superficially automatic ones.

So, how do we stay present? The first thing to recognize is that, try as we might, we really can only do one thing at a time, so we ought to do that thing wholeheartedly. Most of our time is spent in the past or the future, rather than the present moment. What we end up doing is passing through that moment on the way to somewhere else and, in doing so, we miss the moment. That's how life ends up passing us by - we do it to ourselves.

5 Steps for Being Present
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
At that same site -

When Therapy Makes Things Worse

Buddhist psychology starts with the premise of basic goodness. We enter into the world in a state of perfection, or basic goodness, and remain that way until we leave it. While this may be the premise, things get murky because, in response to the wounding of our human experience, we lose sight of that basic goodness. It gets lost beneath the layers of coping, defensiveness—and, in some cases, dysfunction—we develop in order to survive, both personally and socially. Peeling back those layers and revealing our authentic self, or an awakened heart, also means exposing our most vulnerable selves.

Surfacing our demons, digging deep into our neuroses, exploring our habit patterns and challenging our belief systems comes at a cost. Yes, we are closer to our true nature. Yes, we are more authentic. Yes, we are more vulnerable. We also become, to some degree, more defenseless, because we’ve given up our survival tools. The layers of existential clay covering our personal Golden Buddha define our rapprochement, or way of being in the world. With those layers peeled back—or even just thinned—we no longer have access to our past means of navigating our experience. Instead, we find ourselves needing to re-learn how to be in the world, as well as how to continue to survive in it.
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
In her defence, Fragile is a tough watch; it evokes discomfort in the audience because the nameless character speaks with blistering honesty about the secret that keeps him sick.

The secret that keeps us all sick.

He is mortally afraid; his secret is that he is full of fear.

I am fascinated by the fact that this one emotion seems to hold our entire species to ransom. The most intelligent men and women in the world are all held under its miasmic spell. They all feel fear, and they all react to its call when aroused by any kind of confrontational stimulus. People the length and breadth of the known world are fighting over land, over power, over money and over beliefs.

More at this site -

The Alchemy of Suffering: How to Avoid the Temptation of Fear

Cheers!
 
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