Mental Fitness

There has been a great increase in the numbers of psychological disorders and abnormalities over the last years. The prevalence of drug use, both medical and ‘recreational’, has been a strong contributory factor along with increased alcohol consumption, industrial and chemical pollution and many other factors.

The unfortunate dominance of disturbing daily news showing a general proliferation of violence in news reports contributes to an unwholesome picture of the world in which we live. This can have a depressing affect upon our minds or can focus the need to consider the causes of such increase in mental illness in the community and perhaps to urge us to seek a remedy.

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Tags: aspire to better things of yourself, be inwardly at ease, be strong in self discipline, practise contentment, seek self understanding

Our life is simply what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Each of us is generally responsible for all sorts of things, even from a young age when we are first conscious of good and bad actions and influences.

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Tags: at ease with our thought, conscience, culture, intuition, mental faculties, mind care

It is easy to be aware of physical pain as a symptom of some disturbance of body function. It is natural to give it immediate attention so that we can return to the comfort zone that is physical well being. If we have been physically injured Nature demands time in order to mend damaged tissue, bone or nerves. Most of us need to have time to recover from any hurt inflicted upon us from outside. We learn to reduce the time of healing according to our attitude or philosophy.

When someone hurts our feelings, and this is perhaps the most common injury, it is possible to endure symptoms of emotional upset, tearful episodes, anger, seething resentment or violent reactions that can cause aggressive behavior or impulse to retaliate.

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Tags: emotional suffering, hurt feelings, injured mind, pain, psychological injury

When we choose to reflect upon ourselves within the vastness of the universe, it would seem as if we are as nothing.

But as a conscious intelligence with Free Will, each of us represents a formidable potential for creativity and for better comprehending the Universe in which we live as well as becoming aware of the ability we have to contribute to it.

Our Free Will is the Power which gives us the gift of Choice and the capacity to create what our minds conceive. Any limitation is only defined by our imagination.

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Tags: decisions are ours, free to choose, free to use free will, potential to control our lives, we are responsible, we choose

Union with the Divine ! this is a phrase common to human aspiration and the inherent desire we have to realize truths through our own direct spiritual experience.

All of us long for profound, conscious realisation and confirmation of our beliefs.  It is natural that we seek to have a direct relationship with our Maker. To have an intimate inner knowledge of the Source of our life energy helps us to feel spiritually secure. Without this inner element, life can remain incomplete.

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Tags: communicate with soul, concentration, healthy thought, imagination, Meditation, relaxation, spirit

Psychology = “‘The science of the mind, or mental states and processes; the science of human nature…”

WHAT IS HUMAN NATURE?

Western psychology is a relatively recent science which, although valuable in basic matters regarding behaviour, personality and the general function of the mind, in no way claims knowledge of, or allows for the existence, let alone the study of the soul and spirit of the human being. It has made great advances in the study of human behaviour and mental diseases but has not found answers enough to cope with the mental aberrations which torment society and which are on the increase.

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Tags: complete nature of psyche, human nature studies itself and the cosmos, soul and personality, spiritual being