Month: June 2013

Humor and laughter for a better life

This isn't about positive thinking. It's about how one deals with life in a much more general sense. Positive thinking is something I do not uncritically embrace. But learning how to approach life so that one feels better more often is a good thing. Embracing the whole spectrum of emotion is actually involved in this as far as I'm concerned. On another related note it has been said that laughter is the best medicine and I believe it. I have often noticed that laughter truly takes me away and alters my consciousness for the better. I also purposely watch a as many comedies, both sit coms and movies, for exactly this reason. I try to laugh as often as possible. I put EFFORT into finding ways to laugh and it’s part of my healing protocol. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

many ways to live a good life

more life...

There are as many ways to live a good life as there are human beings...being healthy is simply about learning the necessary habits for our unique selves...and that is also going to be our unique challenge...I like to see it as the adventure called life. It necessarily dovetails with becoming aligned with the whole of life. This is how we find our place in the cosmos. If we listen and pay attention we find life is living us...we need only become aware...

Psych drug withdrawal directory

I've worked for many years among those harmed by psych drugs and I've watched people come back to life and begin to blossom once free of drugs. No one wants to do this without an MD's help, but the fact is it's often impossible to find one who will cooperate, let alone know how to give helpful advice. Many of us are working to change that reality. Thank you Laura et al. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Honest work

The issue with honesty is that it requires us to be…well, honest. Our lives and our relationships are not typically based in honesty, but in placation and cooperation. Over the past few years, as this weblog and my walking-talking endeavors demonstrate, I have been experimenting with being more radically honest. At times, this has not gone over particularly well…because people are not always happy with what you honestly think, what you honestly feel, who you honestly are. I am learning to be okay with that reality … [click on title for the rest of the post]

I want this more than life

Yes, it's a very beautiful song. Lyrics included. Saturday Mellow

the Self is discovered in the background

You have to become more interested in the silent background than in the foreground, the phenomena: thoughts, emotions, sounds, smells, etc. Most people are focused on the foreground and what their five senses bring them, but the Self is discovered in the background. The Self is the source from which the phenomena spring and the... Continue Reading →

Sprout them beans… #foodie friday

I'm still learning how to eat since I went low histamine and part of that is learning to use some new foods in order to continue getting enough variety and nutrients in my diet. Exploring sprouting is one way I'm doing that. It's fun and it's actually something I've wanted to do for a long time but never got around to. Bean, seed and grain sprouts are one way to maximize nutrient density in these foods. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us.

I live with these myths, and they tell me this all the time. This is the problem that can be metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you. The Christ in you doesn't die. The Christ in you survives death and resurrects. Or you can identify that with Shiva. I am Shiva-this is the... Continue Reading →

normal…

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, Gary Greenberg (Madness Radio)

Why did the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual become so controversial? Is it possible to alleviate human suffering without classifying it as a mental disorder? Gary Greenberg, psychotherapist, author of Manufacturing Depression and The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry, and journalist for Harper's, the New Yorker, and Rolling Stone, discusses the politics behind psychiatry's new Bible. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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