heelers theories of mind
1. The mind is never a mistake.
(God made the world, and God didn't make any mistakes.)
2. The mind has a limitless capacity to self heal.
3. No mental state is meant to defeat us. Schizophrenia, depression, derangement, in fact any disruption of the mind, may be confronted, understood, transcended and overcome.
4.The mind has rooms. (I'm likening memories and moods and habituated thought patterns to chambers.)
5. There must be no chamber of the mind that we fear to go into.
6. We do not have to spend all our time in the same chamber.
5. We can redecorate the chamber, open a window, turn on the light, install a new type of light. (By getting a new type of light, I mean looking at old memories in a new way.)
6. We can build new chambers of the mind simply by giving ourselves some new and dramatic and memorable experience. (A helicopter ride. A visit to Rome. Etc etc.)
7. Every journey begins with a single step. Every melody begins with a single note. All healing begins with an appeal to the freedom of the person to choose to be well.
8. Any negative memory or thought pattern may be brought into its true perspective as something that serves you but does not rule you. That is to say, it may be brought under control. Even a most grievous memory is meant to serve not to dominate. It is your memory and you own it. One method for bringing an oppressive element of memory under control is to cultivate in the mind an awareness of present beauty. To place our attention on something glorious that is happening now. To welcome into our spirits sensations of peace, rejoicing, hope and renewal. To make the present more important than the past. To develop habitual thought patterns about the good things. Victoria Falls. The Dawn Chorus. A sunburst of roses. Reading me.
9. We can contextualise old negative oppressive experiences by creating new positive liberating ones.
10. Sometimes we are a little bit in love with our sickness.
11. In sleep the mind experiences itself in search of harmony. Even dreams that seem disruptive may serve the mind in attaining peace. (Of course disruptive dreams may also stem from eating bacon and eggs at bedtime or watching too many films or television programmes containing negative imagery.)
12. Jesus Christ died on Calvary so that all of us might be free. None of us are made for slavery. He conquered death in order to bring an end to all oppressions: mental, spiritual, political, diabolical, whatever. No science of mind has ever bettered Jesus' supremely liberating statement two thousand years ago: "If you make my word your home, you will come to know the truth and the truth will set you free."
(God made the world, and God didn't make any mistakes.)
2. The mind has a limitless capacity to self heal.
3. No mental state is meant to defeat us. Schizophrenia, depression, derangement, in fact any disruption of the mind, may be confronted, understood, transcended and overcome.
4.The mind has rooms. (I'm likening memories and moods and habituated thought patterns to chambers.)
5. There must be no chamber of the mind that we fear to go into.
6. We do not have to spend all our time in the same chamber.
5. We can redecorate the chamber, open a window, turn on the light, install a new type of light. (By getting a new type of light, I mean looking at old memories in a new way.)
6. We can build new chambers of the mind simply by giving ourselves some new and dramatic and memorable experience. (A helicopter ride. A visit to Rome. Etc etc.)
7. Every journey begins with a single step. Every melody begins with a single note. All healing begins with an appeal to the freedom of the person to choose to be well.
8. Any negative memory or thought pattern may be brought into its true perspective as something that serves you but does not rule you. That is to say, it may be brought under control. Even a most grievous memory is meant to serve not to dominate. It is your memory and you own it. One method for bringing an oppressive element of memory under control is to cultivate in the mind an awareness of present beauty. To place our attention on something glorious that is happening now. To welcome into our spirits sensations of peace, rejoicing, hope and renewal. To make the present more important than the past. To develop habitual thought patterns about the good things. Victoria Falls. The Dawn Chorus. A sunburst of roses. Reading me.
9. We can contextualise old negative oppressive experiences by creating new positive liberating ones.
10. Sometimes we are a little bit in love with our sickness.
11. In sleep the mind experiences itself in search of harmony. Even dreams that seem disruptive may serve the mind in attaining peace. (Of course disruptive dreams may also stem from eating bacon and eggs at bedtime or watching too many films or television programmes containing negative imagery.)
12. Jesus Christ died on Calvary so that all of us might be free. None of us are made for slavery. He conquered death in order to bring an end to all oppressions: mental, spiritual, political, diabolical, whatever. No science of mind has ever bettered Jesus' supremely liberating statement two thousand years ago: "If you make my word your home, you will come to know the truth and the truth will set you free."
posted by heelers | 2:19 AM
2 Comments:
All healing begins with an appeal to the freedom of the patient.
One of mine surely Heelers?
RD Laing
It is RD.
James
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