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Schizophrenia

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Schizophrenia is a challenging brain disorder that often makes it difficult to distinguish between what is real and unreal, to think clearly, manage emotions, relate to others, and function normally. It affects the way a person behaves, thinks, and sees the world.

The most common form is paranoid schizophrenia, or schizophrenia with paranoia as it’s often called. People with paranoid schizophrenia have an altered perception of reality. They may see or hear things that don’t exist, speak in confusing ways, believe that others are trying to harm them, or feel like they’re being constantly watched. This can cause relationship problems, disrupt normal daily activities like bathing, eating, or running errands, and lead to alcohol and drug abuse in an attempt to self-medicate.

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Schizophrenia Symptoms and Coping Tips - HelpGuide.org

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Try this site - yet to fully explore -

Going through a spiritual awakening is one of the most confusing, lonely, alienating, but also supremely beautiful experiences in life.

Put simply, spiritual awakenings mark the beginning of your initiation on the spiritual path. Without experiencing a spiritual awakening, we go throughout life pursuing the emptiness of money, fame, power, and respect in an attempt to find “happiness.”

The unsettling and equally beautiful thing about spiritual awakenings is that they occur at the least expected times. There is no way you can plan for them. They lurch into your life and shake everything up like tornadoes. But the hidden gift buried deep within them is that they occur at the precise time that you need them the most.

Spiritual Awakening: 23 Major Signs + Symptoms ⋆ LonerWolf

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Try - gratitude tough times -

Gratitude is easy when you are in love or you receive a big check, or a special gift, or the baby is sleeping through the night. It’s all good and easy to give thanks when the food is on the table, the boss compliments you at work, the car is humming. But can you also give thanks when the recipe is ruined and the boss is a jerk and car repairs are going to run $1,200?

Gratitude can make our best days brighter, and it is the one thing that can help us make it through the tough times. It is not frivolous. Not a luxury. It is a coping strategy. And it works.

Gratitude in Tough Times

More at that blog too!

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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This is a trap warned about by Buddha and later by Zen Master Dogen. When you try and gain something from your meditation you have gone astray especially if you are trying to get enlightened. There is nothing to add and nothing to take away. Gaining or resisting is exactly the attachment and aversion Buddha warned was the cause of all emotional suffering, and what Dogen says is the major mistake of meditation practice.

When you try and accumulate merit or knowledge as taught by religious versions of Buddhism you are developing a super strength ego. Any type of wisdom or virtue that is accumulated falls under the natural law of death and decay, it is not a reliable refuge. Anything that is born will die. It is only in the perfect wisdom of a spontaneously present and open mind that enlightened activity can take place. Be in the moment and leave no trace.

More ego traps -

The Five Ego Traps To Avoid in Meditation

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Try - loner wolf inner child work -

No matter how big or small, we’ve all experienced some kind of trauma as children.

These traumas can vary from having your favorite stuffed toy thrown in the trash, to being abandoned by your best childhood friend, to being physically or emotionally abused by your parents.

Inner child work is a vital component of the spiritual awakening journey because it reconnects us with a wounded element of ourselves: the child within. When we reconnect with this fragmented part of ourselves, we can begin to discover the root of many of our fears, phobias, insecurities, and sabotaging life patterns. This is where true healing and liberation happens!

Inner Child Work: 5 Ways to Heal Deep-Rooted Trauma ⋆ LonerWolf

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Pema’s quote above says that this cycle of life–the chaos and order–are inevitable and always in the process of motion.

Likewise, the second law of thermodynamics in physics says that everything in the universe is moving towards chaos. Out of the chaos springs forth order, only to fall apart again.

At the outset, this may sound depressing, but if you go deeper and have the courage to embrace change, it is very liberating to know that things are continually transforming.

If you change your filter or perspective, this transformation will appear fascinating and inspiring instead of scary and depressing.

You may have gotten used to the idea of static comfort zones but eventually solidity, rigidity and non-transformation are more painful than the allowing of it.

Being vulnerable to the various seasons of life is scary but flexibility leaves more room for change in contrast to inflexibility and solidity. After all, a flexible branch or plant can weather the storm where solid trees get uprooted.

More stuff at that Pema site ...

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