Many of us are trapped in the inner world of our own thoughts. We get entangled in the maze of ideas, impulses, reactions, memories, processes, dreams and yearnings that can take possession of our thought faculties and over which at times it seems we have no conscious control. We must respect the position of power and influence of our mind that governs and directs our feelings and actions but we must not allow its strident dictatorship.
Natural White Light is comprised of what we often call the seven colours of the rainbow.
By its light astronomers are able to analyse and distinguish different features of a celestial body or galaxy through observation of its colours. These are the true colours or energies that are recorded by sophisticated technology, not the colour enhanced, beautiful images we are often provided through NASA.
It is not that we need more knowledge about the mind as much as finding how to construct a life- saving bridge from our minds to the knowledge deep in our hearts.
Stranded on the shores of knowledge of the intellect alone, we eventually find ourselves lonely and devoid of real life satisfaction and experience regardless of our accumulation of information.
If we should choose to depend upon our emotions and consciousness of our hearts alone, we soon learn that we need the mind to channel our affections and sympathies appropriately.
Many people today seem to depend upon their consultations with a personal psycho-analyst in order to help clear the mental and emotional energies that tend to accumulate when we have no time to attend to sorting our problems out for ourselves.
Those who make time to practise simple relaxation techniques, or employ the fine yogic technique of Yoga Nidra find that these measures are satisfactory in reducing stress.
Creating your own creed is a serious and helpful exercise.
Doing this will help you to formulate the values that are important to your life and the way you live it for your soul’s satisfaction.
You will find that it will possibly be a creed that will need revising some time later, but by keeping it simple it may serve you, by silent repetition of it, as a lifelong private source of encouragement and inspiration.
The three aspects of our personality that we are generally most concerned about on a daily basis are
1) our bodies 2) our emotions 3) our thoughts
Imagination is the fundamental tool for the individual when forming a self-image.
Unless one creates a self image the personality is apt to become pressured and influenced by what others think, and this may not be as you would wish.
It is seldom that emotions are experienced without some accompanying thought.
Our feelings are often motivated by thought and directed by them.
We can entertain an idea that is purely intellectual as a product of thinking alone.
We can entertain emotions without any instruction or control of our minds.
The journey of life and over many lives leads to a gradual evolving of the human being along with all things in nature.
Many developments and skills are the obvious ones such as physical abilities, intellectual skills and technological achievements. But the subtler aspect of our progress is measured in other ways that demonstrate we are changing, developing and refining our faculties and senses.
Diagnosing a mental illness is a serious business with serious consequences.
Can a psychologist help to relieve the patient through the gentle art of education in self analysis or is it a matter offering a greater challenge to any therapist. At what point does a despondent or unhappy person require diagnosis and medical drug doses?
The question that a psychiatrist must face is the consideration whether a patient is suffering from an acute temporary state of upset of mind and emotions that could be considered a ‘normal’ life experience or whether it is a more serious issue.
