Schizophrenia

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Huge session at library - even stopped adding to Nanice but then they keep comin ...

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The Definition of Crazy ~ A State of Madness

 

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An hour with an angel!

https://voiceoffreedom.ca/an-hour-with-an-angel-serapis-bey-on-our-ascension/

God is Here and God is a Woman By Buddha Kuthumi, Archangel Uriel and Sweet T of The First Contact Ground Crew Team We don’t believe in God, we experience God. The funniest being we have ever met. The only Being that will spin Ego’s into surrender or expose their resistance and put them on a karmic adventure. She is the only true mirror of love. In her presence you will be presented the greatest gift of self reflection. Her eyes engulf you with the natural flow of...

God is Here and God is a Woman

More to follow - if I remember!

 

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Plius -

My Story: From Depression to Dancing -

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New thread idea?? Wasn't really looking for it but this is what I found -

Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality

Hope you are all well & enjoying your time here at this forum!

Just found this interesting video

How Does Consciousness Happen?

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience – not just any conscious experience, but your own experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. So how does this actually happen?

According to neuroscientist, Anil Seth, we’re all hallucinating all of the time. And when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it ‘reality’. So how can we understand this ‘reality’ of consciousness better?

Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality

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Did I mention this article? - tiny buddha accept struggling -

“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.” ~Nathaniel Branden

Have you ever thought that you accepted yourself fully, only to realize there were conditions placed upon that acceptance?

There was a point in my life when I realized I had stopped making tangible progress with my emotions, self-esteem, and habits. I’d made some profoundly positive shifts that remained with me, like eating healthier, practicing yoga, and phasing out negative friends. You could say I was “cleaning house” in a sense—getting clear on what I wanted my life to look like and discarding the rest.

Accept Yourself Unconditionally (Even When You’re Struggling)

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Are you your own worst critic?

It’s common to beat ourselves up for faults big and small. But according to psychologist Kristin Neff, that self-criticism comes at a price: It makes us anxious, dissatisfied with our life, and even depressed.

For the last decade, Neff has been a pioneer in the study of “self-compassion,” the revolutionary idea that you can actually be kind to yourself, accept your own faults—and enjoy deep emotional benefits as a result. Last year, she distilled the results of her research in the popular book Self-Compassion. (A Greater Good essay we adapted from the book is the most popular piece we’ve ever published.)

The rest o f this article -

The Power of Self-Compassion | Greater Good

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Just sheer dumb "luck" again - from that Tiny search -

Second, see the person past the problem.

When I was walking around with a hammer, I was basically seeing everyone in my life as a nail. There was more to them than the issues they were facing, but I wasn’t relating to them as whole people. Now I look for other people’s strengths, and their ability to solve their own issues. People are more resilient than we tend to think.

Click here for the full article -

What to Do When Someone You Love is Struggling - Tiny Buddha

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More google searches from recent emails -

Tiny buddha accept struggling - not get sucked into problems (or emotions) - plus suggested - mainly doctor Ilene site but others too!

How to accept yourself and be happy - a few?

You are who you are. You love what you love. There are some things that you will be able to change in your life (for the better) and, there are some things that will simply be for the rest of your time here on earth.

Expending mental energy on wishing you can change things that are never going to change is a waste of your time and will inevitably lead to sadness. Whatever it is that you wish you could change, know that you are a worthy human being regardless of what it is you are insecure about.

Take time to be kind to yourself, let your guard down and embrace these things, and learn how to overcome that inner voice that tells you that you’re not good enough. In order to be happy with who we are, we must allow ourselves to be accepting of all aspects of the self.

The biggest barrier for most people, however, is learning how to cultivate acceptance of the self. If you are struggling at this point, here are some tips that will allow you to tackle the project easier:

Very first -

How to Accept Yourself for Who You Are and Be Happy

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From another email -

Here’s a question I get asked as a therapist:

How do you listen to people’s problems all day? Don’t you get burned out?

In all honesty, I have worked on my ability to be present and accountable for my clients without taking on their feelings. You can imagine that I see people who are anxious, uncomfortable, lost, sad, frustrated, and traumatized. I hear people’s darkest thoughts, and about the hardest times in their lives. As a compassionate person, it’s only natural to feel their pain too. However, I have worked on better managing my own emotions around others’ discomfort because I get a lot of practice at it. And I know it’s better for myself and for my clients to remain objective and clear minded. The ability to manage yourself in the presence of other peoples’ anxiety and difficult emotions is an ability that can be practiced and strengthened within all of your relationships.

Below are five skills I have learned that have helped me to effectively and respectfully deal with other people’s tough emotions. If you can learn to implement and strengthen these skills, this will help you keep your calm in every relationship in your life, especially the most important ones.

How Not to Get Sucked Into the Problems of Others

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More from the Greater Good site -

We’ve all been there: A strong emotion like anger or fear sucks us in and suddenly we can’t seem to control the things we say or do, hurting ourselves and those around us.

“We act like wind-up toys, repeatedly bumping into the same walls, never realizing there may be an open door just to our left or our right,” writes Susan David, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, in Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life.

Her book is a guide to life’s trickiest emotions: not how to avoid them but how to learn to move through them. If we have the courage to do this, she argues, we will cultivate deeper relationships and a more authentic life.

What to Do When You Feel Stuck in Negative Emotions

 

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It’s one of the most difficult challenges for most of us (myself included): how not to get mad when someone else gets mad at you. How not to feel bad when someone criticizes you. How not to feel unhappy when your lover/partner is unhappy with you.

The emotions of others can vary wildly throughout the day, and if we allow our happiness to be tied to how everyone else is feeling, we’ll constantly be on a rollercoaster, happy one moment and then plunging into anger, sadness, disappointment the next.

How do we get off this ride? It’s not easy, but there are some things I’ve found to help. Let’s first look at why we get sucked into the emotions of those around us, then what we can do to stop it, and finally how we can learn these skills.

Comes from the Zen habits site which is worth a visit or two ...

How Not to Get Sucked Into the Emotions of Others : zen habits

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I need more to read? - Eckankar - descriptions plus initiations ...

Plus youtube!

eckankar - YouTube

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Steps for Dealing with Difficult Challenge (Tiny Buddha) - leads here -

7 Steps To Accept Tough Situations In Life

Sometimes people try to stay in denial when they face a tough situation. However, the longer you try to avoid the problem, the longer it will take to address it.

Acknowledge the situation exists, regardless of how you feel about it. Be prepared to face the situation head on so you can get through it. Even if you can’t change the situation, acknowledging it can help you accept it and move on.

Cheers!

 

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Huge site -

5 Obstacles on the Spiritual Path

We’ve heard from practically every spiritual source that we’re infinite, and if we have love in our hearts and we can persevere in times of trouble, there’s nothing we can’t do. This includes keeping up with our spiritual practices (meditation, prayer, etc.), but we can easily convince ourselves that keeping up with them is just too hard.

Plus check-out their menus!

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Harold Klemp books!!!???

Yet to explore many ...

Wow - found this pdf of their spiritual exercises! - from a suggested search for once -

https://www.eckankar.org/Members2/ECK_Parables/Spiritual_exercises.pdf

Enjoy!

 

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From another email -

My experience looked crazy. My experience sure felt crazy. But I was not crazy at all, and neither are you – its all just healing. Some aspects of your experience may SEEM crazy. They may be hard to rationalize, because they are happening on the spiritual plane and are governed by other laws, but that doesn’t make you crazy.

You see, this experience is not an accident. It’s not a flaw or a mistake. Its designed to transform you into who you truly are. Its an attempt by your soul to strip you of everything that’s not you; to heal the psyche of lifetimes worth of issues. It’s the process of waking up, releasing all of the pain and karmic patterns, and finally completing the lessons so that we can be our true, divine, and pure selves. Until we allow ourselves to recognize, accept and release our pain, our soul will continue to repeat these patterns – like a computer program stuck in a loop. When it does that, it can have the look and feel of a mental breakdown, when in truth it is a spiritual and psychological breakthrough. Naturally, it can be hard to handle. In order to gain control, balance and freedom we need to realign ourselves. We need to come back down to earth, gain a foothold in the structure of the physical and support ourselves through the process of healing the soul. That all starts with grounding.

Is It a Spiritual Awakening (or am I just plain crazy?) - Spiritual Awakening Signs

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What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital -

The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

In the shamanic view, mental illness signals "the birth of a healer," explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.

What those in the West view as mental illness, the Dagara people regard as "good news from the other world." The person going through the crisis has been chosen as a medium for a message to the community that needs to be communicated from the spirit realm. "Mental disorder, behavioral disorder of all kinds, signal the fact that two obviously incompatible energies have merged into the same field," says Dr. Somé. These disturbances result when the person does not get assistance in dealing with the presence of the energy from the spirit realm.

Click here for the rest - interesting little site! -

What a Shaman Sees in A Mental Hospital

All the best!

 

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The ultimate guide to the human dark side ...

From a recent email ... for example -

How well do you know yourself?

If you’re like most people, you probably have a decent idea about your own desires, values, beliefs, and opinions.

You have a personal code that you choose to follow that dictates whether you are being a “good” person.

If there is any one thing you can know in this universe, surely it is who you are.

More here -

Carl Jung and the Shadow: The Ultimate Guide to the Human Dark Side

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