The Path to Mental Health and Wellness

The inquiry into the mind, brain, and behaviour is one that leads us toward understanding and self-actualisation.

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“I do not wish to participate in a necrophilic cult or to advocate a life-denying morbidity. But it must not be forgotten that our basic dilemma is that each of us is both angel and beast of the field; we are the mortal creatures who, because we are self-aware, know that we are mortal. A denial of death at any level is a denial of one’s basic nature and begets an increasingly pervasive restriction of awareness and experience. The integration of the idea of death saves us; rather than sentence us to existences of terror or bleak pessimism, it acts as a catalyst to plunge us into more authentic life modes, and it enhances our pleasure in the living of life.”

— Irvin D. Yalom, Existential Psychotherapy 

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Our brains have something called the reticular activating system (RAS) that acts as a filter in the brain. The thoughts you focus on become the things you brain scans from the environment brings to your awareness. In order to shift your thoughts, you have to practice new emotional states through expanded awareness. A lot of people think manifestations means focusing on something, but in reality, it’s a focus on your own inner world. Creating an internal environment to match what you’re seeking. It’s humbling to learn we’re often blocking ourselves from what it is we want.

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“Perception is a mirror, not a fact. What we see is our own mood reflected outside.”

— Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles

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“I warn you, whoever you are… Oh, you who wish to probe the arcanes of Nature, if you do not find within yourself that which you seek, neither shall you be able to find it outside. If you ignore the excellencies of your own house, how do you intend to find other excellencies? In you is hidden the treasure of treasures. Oh, man, know thyself and thou shall know the Universe and the Gods.”

— inscribed in the ancient Temple of Delphi

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My thoughts are not my self, but exactly like the things of the world, alive and dead. Just as I am not damaged through living in a partly chaotic world, so too I am not damaged if I live in my partly chaotic thought world. Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognise. Thoughts grow in me like a forest, populated by many different animals. But man is domineering in his thinking, and therefore he kills the pleasure of the forest and that of the wild animals. Man is violent in his desire, and he himself becomes a forest and a forest animal. Just as I have freedom in the world, I also have freedom in my thoughts. Freedom is conditional.

–– Carl Jung, The Red Book.

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Elif Batuman on feeling like everyone around you seeming so much more formed and opinionate.

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The fundamental attribution error

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology Of Water: A Memoir

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On the following night I had to write down all the dreams that I could recollect, true to their wording. The meaning of this act was dark to me. Why all this? Forgive the fuss that rises in me. Yet you want me to do this. What strange things are happening to me? I know too much not to see on what swaying bridges I go. Where are you leading me? Forgive my excessive apprehension, brimful of knowledge. My foot hesitates to follow you. Into what must and darkness does your path lead? Must I also learn to do without meaning? If this is what you demand, then so be it. This hour belongs to you. What is there where there is no meaning? Only nonsense, or madness, it seems to me. Is there also a supreme meaning? Is that your meaning, my soul? I limp after you on crutches of understanding. I am a man and you stride like a God. What torture! I must return to myself, to my smallest things. I saw the things of my soul as small, pitiably small. You force me to see them as large, to make them large. Is that your aim? I follow, but it terrifies me. Hear my doubts, otherwise I cannot follow, since your meaning is a supreme meaning, and your steps are the steps of a God.

– Carl Jung, The Red Book.

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“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth, later, in uglier ways.”

— Sigmund Freud

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“A story told by the conscious mind has a beginning, a development, and an end, but the same is not true of a dream. Its dimensions in time and space are quite different; to understand it you must examine it from every aspect-just as you may take an unknown object in your hands and turn it over and over until you are familiar with every detail of its shape.”

— C.G. Jung

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i am not having a mental breakdown i am simply Evolving

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from Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

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This.