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Schizophrenia

Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
This massive article (25,000+ words!) is my attempt at summarizing the most important concepts and truths that I’ve learned about happiness. I will walk you through some of the benefits of being happy, show you what determines happiness, and most importantly: I will list all the best strategies (26 in total) that have been proven to make people lastingly happier.

Read it here -

How to Be Happy: 26 Strategies Backed by Research

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Sacredphrenia site - blog has loads! - for example -

Metamorphosis isn't pretty. Sorry to break it to you.
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You don’t just hop in a chrysalis and sprout wings overnight.
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You’ve gotta turn into goo first, just like the caterpillar turns into a soup of amino acids before entering its final form. You’ve gotta dissolve and then be reassembled.

The Goo Phase of Metamorphosis — SACREDPHRENIA

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
A few interesting links from that spontaneous page -

Is It Psychosis or a Spiritual Emergency?

An Introduction to Negative Entities and Self Clearing - Psychospiritual Support

Heart and Soul Healing

Helping Someone with Schizophrenia - HelpGuide.org

How Resilience Helps With the Coping of Crisis

The Goo Phase of Metamorphosis — SACREDPHRENIA

Managing Psychosis – the Transpersonal Psychology Approach

Your Soul’s Plan: Discovering the Real Meaning of the Life You Planned Before You Were Born

Tough to get a lot of folk interested in that kind of "view" :)

Enjoy your day!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Often, when we feel overwhelmed by the waves of difficult emotions, we become reactive or shut down completely.

Or - meditation feeling overwhelmed
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Allowing means letting the thoughts, emotions, feelings, or sensations we have recognized simply be there. Typically when we have an unpleasant experience, we react in one of three ways: by piling on the judgment; by numbing ourselves to our feelings; or by focusing our attention elsewhere. For example, we might have the sinking, shameful feeling of having been too harsh in correcting our child. But rather than allowing that feeling, we might blame our partner for not doing his or her part, worry about something completely different, or decide it’s time for a nap. We’re resisting the rawness and unpleasantness of the feeling by withdrawing from the present moment.

Much more at this site -

Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember RAIN - Mindful

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Another book 2 add 2 my wish-list?

What makes this book stand out is the way the authors - two neuroscience experts - describe in clear, lay person terms the precise brain biology that creates these faulty messages and how the very way the brain functions makes it extremely difficult though not impossible to change them.

Having this knowledge in hand coupled with their well explained set of research-proven techniques, empowers you to conquer these unhelpful messages and harmful behaviors once and for all.

You Are Not Your Brain: Book Review — Always Well Within

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Change Your Perspective on Time

There's no doubt that the pace of life has increased dramatically. Most of us simply cannot afford to sit back and listen to the birds chirp, or watch the clouds drift away. But many of us still spend an unreasonable amount of time hooked in to our devices that disconnect us from the wonders of the real world. Living in the moment changes our relationship with life, because as we begin to see with new eyes, time slows down and life begins to fall in place.

What to Do When Your Life Is Overwhelming You

Cheers!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Psychiatry with soul? -

Schizophrenia, Soul in Crisis ...

"Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift." ~ Plato, Phaedrus

Dr Maureen Roberts helps sufferers and carers who are seeking natural, soulful and re-empowering alternatives to hospitals and psychiatric drug 'treatment' for schizophrenia.

What we call ‘schizophrenia’ is usually an acute psychospiritual crisis, involving personality fragmentation, turning inward, a loss of a sense of self, and extreme empathy and sensitivity to surroundings. It’s a kind of ‘dreaming awake’, where the world of dreams, myth and vision takes the place of outer reality. From a soul-centred vantage point, it's also a bit like drowning. The whole unconscious opens up and swallows the sufferer, who must then learn to swim, often with the aid of a competent 'lifesaver' who's been there (i.e. explored and survived the hazardous labyrinths of the unconscious) and so knows the road.

More at this site -

Psychiatry With Soul: Schizophrenia

All the best!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
The healing of schizophrenia as 'soul in crisis' cannot be bottled into pills, or bestowed by applying information acquired through a university medical degree. As the great physician of the soul C. G. Jung demonstrated in his own psychiatric practice, it is an art requiring empathy, patience, a shrewd yet sympathetic understanding of human nature and, above all, heart.

Add to such desirable qualities gut intuition, healthy instincts, respect for nature, an intimate, working knowledge of the dynamics, rhythms of the psyche, a sense of humour, plus a humble willingness to renounce rigid theories, preconceived ideas, control and authority and you have what I call 'soul-centred psychiatry,' in many ways the antithesis of what Medicare funds in Australia: the biologic, or drug-based psychiatry which, for most of us, is the only brand of psychiatry we have encountered, or are otherwise aware of.

Soul in Exile: Schizophrenia, Jung & a Psychiatric Evaluation of Psychiatry

Ciao!
 
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