Happiness Is In The Mind
Happiness tips, including a motivational quote.
Some folks struggle with ways to be happy. They may even suffer from chronic sadness, unhappiness, or depression (CUSD). If you are one of these individuals you are not alone, and there is hope. There are many natural treatments for the symptoms of these various levels of depression, and there are thousands of ways to be happier. This short piece is written both for a suffering person, and for a person committed to a happier and more meaningful life. It may also be of value to physicians and mental health professionals who sincerely want to help their patients and clients to truly heal from depression in ways that transcend simply prescribing or taking antidepressant medication.
Tips For Finding the Path To Happiness
There is hope to end your sadness and depressionmedium.com
The Mind
In recent years the view of human behavior has been modified as developing technologies reveal the brain’s workings in increasing detail. The mind is a complex thing. Psychoneuroimmunologists now tell us that, scientifically, body and brain are one and the same, with the function or dysfunction in one instantly affecting the other.
Psychologists know that the mind ascends quickly to what it believes to be the truth. It grabs at any declaration, proposition, or alleged fact, it creates evidence to support its beliefs even if there is no personal knowledge to support this belief. In addition, many of its beliefs are based on unresolved memories that may or may not be available to the conscious mind.
Psycho-neuro immunology research has produced evidence that our thought patterns specifically and instantaneously affect our body chemistry and can even suppress our immune system. Every day, scientists are surprised at the workings of the human mind. What seemed mysterious one day is obvious the next, and then some new piece of information arises to make it all mysterious again. For instance, various studies conducted in recent years indicate that, in the short term, at least, placebos can be as effective as antidepressants.
At one point in time, a person may sincerely believe he knows something about something, and realize later that he was completely inaccurate. Likewise, another person may have great knowledge about something and not even be aware that they possess such knowledge.
The subconscious mind can contradict the laws of logic in a way that the conscious mind cannot. The laws of logic, no matter how objective they attempt to be, are still about the subjective, for thought is subjective and logic comes from thought. In the mind, everything is theoretical, and reality is simply a special case of the theoretical. Our common reality makes perfect intellectual sense if not looked at too closely, but in time we soon learn that it is impossible to live in any intellectual concept of reality when there are so many contradictions arising.
Connecting to the subconscious mind does not come through intellectual understanding. It is only by detaching from the illusion created through the conscious senses that one can create a new reality in the mind. This realization does not come about through wishing it so. It comes from applying the natural qualities of the mind in a new direction.
Stop whatever you are doing for just a few minutes. Now watch the inner workings of your mind. Do you see how it keeps switching from one thought to another? It is almost impossible to focus the mind. It’s as if it is incapable of stopping at any one idea. Instead, it wanders from this to that, and from that to others. The mind is like a television screen with thousands of images coming and going. At the same time that you are watching the television screen, there are millions of other images on the other channels.
You see, we stay with one channel for a while, get bored, and switch to the next channel. I call this “Mental Channel Surfing”. Rather than being strange or unusual, this is the ordinary state of our mind. Many educators complain that people have even shorter attention spans now than ten or even fifteen years ago. So this is the ongoing state of the mind. Our individual personality bounces from one sense to another, one thought to another, like a butterfly going from one leaf to another.
A quote
“When you show up as your authentic self, whatever that may be, you allow others to do the same, creating the world we all deserve.”
– SHANNA KATZ KATTARI
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About the creator of this series: Lewis Harrison, is a public intellectual and has been mentoring and coaching visionaries, spiritual seekers, world-class athletes, thought leaders, billionaires, and individuals seeking to become more effective, efficient, productive, and self-aware for over half a century. He has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic cancer. He is healing and presently intends to survive and prosper.
I offer Master Classes, 4 courses and mentoring programs.
1. Mindful Meditation and The Spiritual Life.
2. The Art And Science Of Self Healing.
3. How To Write Your Memoirs
4. Applied Game Theory
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About the creator of this series: Lewis Harrison, is a public intellectual and has been mentoring and coaching visionaries, spiritual seekers, world-class athletes, thought leaders, billionaires, and individuals seeking to become more effective, efficient, productive, and self-aware for over half a century. He has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Metastatic cancer. He is healing and presently intends to survive and prosper.
Testimonials
Here is what Jack Canfield, who wrote the introduction to Lewis’ book “Healing Depression Naturally” and who is the co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, has to say about Lewis and his work.
“Lewis is amazing…. I recommend him to anyone who wants less stress and more energy.”
Jack Canfield, Co-author of the “Chicken Soup for the Soul “ books and star of the movie “The Secret”
“Lewis, your program was one of the first steps I took in the process of defining my interest in alternative medicine and for that I thank you. It has been over 45 years and I am continually amazed when I look back upon how easily and quickly one step has led to the next. Thank you for being there to assist in laying the foundations for all my future studies.”
Robee Fian L.Ac Former President American Association of Oriental Medicine (AAOM)
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I’ve Been Diagnosed With Stage 4 Metastatic Cancer
A friend started a fundraiser on GoFundMe, and it would mean so much if you could take a look at it.
She wrote “Any help, like donating or sharing, gets Lewis closer to his goal. Thank you in advance for your kindness and support.”
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