Do you feel anxious, hopeless, discouraged, or depressed?
If so I have good news: you can break free from all that negativity. The trick is to learn to make the mind work toward your best interests rather than against them.
Do you feel anxious, hopeless, discouraged, or depressed? Break free!
December 19, 2011 By
About the holidays: Always in the Season
December 19, 2011 By
These two always have the most contagious fun!
What is non-attachment?
December 18, 2011 By
“For a long time, I believed not being attached meant not feeling anything too strongly one way or another, as if becoming sad or angry was a sign of spiritual non-attaintment. I thought that the fruit of spiritual practice was to abide in a permanent state of non-reaction or, if I did feel something “negative” it should somehow magically dissolve in the nectar of unseen equanimity so I could be returned to a state of bliss. Whatever that means.”
Top posts for 2011 (see the stats and revisit what’s hot!)
December 17, 2011 By
Some weekend reading for you, with commentary too…the most trafficked posts of Beyond Meds for 2011…
Top posts…lifted straight off my stats page:
Crazy: Saturday (not-so) mellow
December 17, 2011 By
wow! what a great song! just rocked out a bit….(I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind…)
Notes on trauma, PTSD and finally healing
December 16, 2011 By
Trauma is about broken connections. Connection is broken with the body/self, family, friends, community, nature, and spirit, perpetuating the downward spiral of traumatic dislocation. Healing trauma is about restoring these connections.
What is the single best thing we can do for our health?
December 15, 2011 By
Start with this and then slowly make other changes if and when you can…
Pain as teacher
December 15, 2011 By
On pain Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not [...]
Changing Brain Chemistry, Changing Paradigms
December 14, 2011 By
We are beginning to emerge from a dark age when the dominant paradigm explained everything, from difficulty paying attention to emotional pain, as a medical disease necessitating pharmaceutical intervention. There is a certain comfort in this paradigm. If difficult emotions and behaviors are “diseases” then perhaps blame is not an issue. But what if we moved away from a culture of blame toward a culture of acceptance and non-judgmental problem-solving instead?
“Acceptance underlies most of my recovery from what was once diagnosed as bipolar disorder”
December 14, 2011 By
By Will Meecham — Acceptance underlies most of my recovery from what was once diagnosed as bipolar disorder.
As earlier posts have made clear, I no longer buy into the concept of ‘mental illness’ because the phrase refers to putative brain disorders that are viewed as irreversible. My recovery demonstrates that my formerly intense moodiness did not result from a structural or genetic neurologic condition, but rather from errors in relating to the chaotic vicissitudes of life. My instability resolved once I learned to accept my experience, no matter how painful.
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