Psychological Medication, When Possible, Must Be Accompanied With Education
October 26, 2011
“Fire and Forget” is a term used to describe a missile that needs no additional guidance, once the operator has pulled the trigger. ”Fire and Forget” is also an unfortunate metaphor for those who receive psychological medication, with little or no education.
But what is the purpose of a psychological drug? To quiet the chatter in a patient’s head. However, the opposite can happen, whereby the drug will turn up the volume instead of turning it down.
Patients who find themselves in this dilemma and have no idea of what’s going on, have resorted to sucide in order to eliminate this noise.
The “Class Compass,” which can be downloaded free from my website, is a simple tool that enables us to be aware of our chatter and how it works.
Why There is Power in “The Present Moment”
October 26, 2011
Cultures, over the ages, have opined about the power of the present moment. But what is it about the present moment that give us power? Unlike our fellow primates, we have the mental capacity, for example, to project into the future and past. Here’s the problem. The chatter in our head takes this talent and uses it, in a perverse way, by propelling us into the future and asking us “what if” questions we can’t answer. What if you lose your job? What if you can’t find another job? What if you can’t pay your bills?
Fear is born out of not having the answer of how to protect what we value. But here’s the crazy part about this process. Our chatter knows that we cannot answer questions about the future. And when we attempt and fail, our chatter will fill the void by suggesting that the worst will happen. And when our chatter has exhausted this path into the future, it will drag us into the past in order to show us what we did wrong.
Being “mentally present,” in the present moment, enable us to get off this mental merry-go-round, because the chatter in our head and the present moment cannot occupy the same space. In other words, when our attention becomes one with the present moment, the chatter in our head dissipates. Understanding this time-space relationship, empowers us when attempting to shift, from one state of mind to another.
There is An Order To All Things, Including Politics
October 26, 2011
I believe there are two side to our personality.
The positive side mimics the universe, which is always creating, changing and in order. Our founding fathers used this model to create our nation’s most cherished documents; The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. America is a creative nation of governing bodies that support change, without which we would be out of order.
The negative side of our personality, which our brain created, is not concerned about balanced budgets, fiscal responsibility or the fact that our country is heading toward a financial cliff, but rather, its image, being right, having control and not being accountable.
The factors that define each side our personality serve as a litmus test that can be used to determine from which side of a politician’s personality they are attempting to govern from.
Why the Other Primates Don’t Experience the Mental Challenges That We Do
October 26, 2011
The other primates don’t have our mental capacity, and thus, their brain is not able to produce an alter-self that has the complexities of ours.
What May Be Our Greatest Challenge
October 26, 2011
Dealing with, “The serpent, which is more subtle than any beast the Lord God had created.” This passage is from the story of Adam and Eve. The chatter is our head is like a serpent; it’s stealthy, can be deadly, speaks with a forked tongue and has slithered into our psyche disguised as us.
What Makes Us Think Our Psyche is One Dimensional?
October 26, 2011
We live in a universe where opposites such as matter anti-matter, protons and electrons co-exist. For thousands of year’s terms such as the tree of life, the tree of good and evil, the yin and yang suggest that we too are influenced by the world of opposites, and yet, we treat our psyche as if it were a road traveling only one direction.
In One Word; What is The Highest Level of Consciousness?
October 26, 2011
If we took the wisest of all the men, past and present, and put them into a room and asked them to reveal, in one word, what is highest level of consciousness, what would they say? Their one word consenses would have to be “peace,” because it’s the only state of mind that shares common ground with the universe.
What’s Really Happening in Obama’s Mind
October 20, 2011
If we could peel back the layers of our humanity, we would discover that our personality has two parts. This ”two-part” theory addresses why we humans can be so extraordinary on one hand; and on the other, confused self serving, and at times, destructive.
Take President Obama, for example, he’s bright, articulate and at the same time confused (he believes the redistribution of wealth and government spending will grow our economy,) self serving (blames others for his failed policies) and destructive (continues with massive deficits to fund his social agenda, knowing full well that our county is heading toward a financial cliff.)
But from where does the negative side of our personality come from? From our brain! Humans pay a price for having a highly creative brain that has created, without our knowledge or permission, an image, a likeness of who our brain thinks we are that speaks to us through the chatter in our head.
Sigmund Freud, the father of modern day psychiatry, called this image the ego, which is Latin for “I.” The ego is comprised of our beliefs. And based upon the results, Obama believes:
- He is the one who should decide, who gets what, which is why, ”favored cronies” are exempt from ”Obama-care,” and you and I are not.
- Government is the solution.
- Class warfare, dividing the American people, is justified if it makes the other side ”wrong” or puts distance between him and his failed policies.
And if this is not enough, Obama believes America should be an entitlement society like Europe, who is now telling us, “Go back, don’t be like us,” which raises a question. In spite of the overwhelming evidence that Europe’s entitlement model has failed, why would Obama continue down this road? The answer lies in knowing what the ego (the alter-self, the negative side of our personality) values.
The ego values its image, being right, having control and not being accountable. When you apply this template to Obama’s style of governing, it’s clear to what is happening inside of Obama’s mind. Obama’s alter-self is running the show. A president that imposes upon the American people, through congressional trickery (the deem and pass,) a costly and highly ineffective national health care system, and touts, “If congress won’t give me what I want, I’m going to take it,” demonstrates he is not concerned about our welfare, but rather:
- His image
- Being right
- Having control and,
- Not being accountable
Has Obama ever told the American people what’s really in his heart? Do you hear Obama speaking about the benefits of “Obama-care?” Of course not, because Obama-care is not about health care or doing what’s best for the American people, it’s about control and social justice, which will eventually rip the guts out of the best health care system in the world.
This election will be like no other. The personal attacks and misinformation that will come out of Washington, and from their surrogates, to disguise Obama’s lies and failures will be unprecedented. Obama knows full well that if he came clean and told the American people what the “chatter in his head” really wants America to be, his fate as a one term president would be sealed.
Why We Don’t Always Do, What We Know To Do
October 6, 2011
Have you ever thought of doing something dumb, knew it was dumb, and did it anyway? And after doing so, the same chattery voice that induced you to do it, was now calling you stupid for having done it. We have all marched to that tune, but why? What would cause to do, what we know not to do?
We unknowingly march to the chatter in our head, whose purpose is to keep us where we are. Questionning our internal dialogue is important if our intention is to understand why we don’t always do, what we know to do.
