What’s going on
Accidental truths
Violence/non violence Ahimsa
Why is it so hard for humans to be either violent or nonviolent?
Throughout millions of years to now, we theorize that humans have evolved out of animals.
In order to survive some animals need to eat meat and others cannot eat meat. Are the obligate carnivores more violent?
Whether humans are omnivores or herbivores or carnivores is still up for debate. But if we are what we eat then if we eat meat we are eating the flesh of animals who have died in pain and left those pain chemicals in that meat at the time of their death.
Violence/non violence Ahimsa
Why is it so hard for humans to be either violent or nonviolent?
Throughout millions of years to now, we theorize that humans have evolved out of animals.
In order to survive some animals need to eat meat and others cannot eat meat. Are the obligate carnivores more violent?
How to find non violence
Where does one go to find nonviolence? I think if we look at all the violence around us in the world the answer to this will not be simple. And most people that I work with aren’t in immediate danger, certainly not from outward violence. So however there is a need to find more non-matter in terms of the constant stressful suffering mental, biological, spiritual, emotional. Does one have to be completely from everything in order to be in the state of nonviolence? Or the answer to that is that is not even a question of a possibility that somebody can live in the world and yet be completely detached. So given the fact that we live in certain limitations, such as a limited time in our life span, there are limits our conditioning places upon us, and the limits that our own mind places upon us. Ask yourself what is an example of an inner conflict I have which causes me to waste my time worrying about it and to never make a decision? Is it because i have a hard time listening to my own suffering? One side beats me up and the other side is tired. Because during times of transition and change a lot of the basic fight or flight survival instincts also kick in. When this additional stress makes it more difficult for a person to be at peace or at least less conflicted, making one small objective, one small baby step, can help a person to see if there is possible hope. Whatever small step it is it doesn’t matter. But it has to be something the person wants not what they should want. People are often stronger than they give themselves credit for. Often times they have already strengths which have helped them. In any kind of therapy, being a collaboration, building upon previous therapy by asking what was helpful can help to connect with a person. it takes to account each individual preference. And some people may be more open to starting off sessions working on more peripheral or less complicated problems. During the getting acquainted stage people may state what their opinions are and the clinicial may decide if the opinions are helping or hurting say for an example in a marriage. Some people ask for this clinician’s opinion which seem demanding but are cultural shows of respect. But really hearing a person out often brings the person to self correct. And then later on they feel comfortable enough with the boundaries of the therapeutic alliance so that they can try to be more open minded.
It is not so strange that often young people with eating disorders in their history have begun to realize that now having the opportunity to decide what food they eat gives them freedom of their body. The amount of social control in some traditional families is certainly demanding obedience, abusive and neglectful. A child grows up in America and sees that abuse is not acceptable and that also adolescents are expected to rebel from their families. This produces an inner conflict, sort of trapped in the middle with no escape feeling. Sometimes this could be a cause of what is categorized as a reactive passive aggressive behavior or personality disorder. Let’s say that passive aggressive behavior is caused by a fear of not getting what a person wants. That fear causes a person to be like the frozen deer in the headlights, unable to move, shut down. So often in therapy a person needs to talk for hours, weeks, years, to get over this level of trauma. Interestingly, if a person is going to therapy or getting help in someway, that there can be continual progress in the persons actual life and quality of life. That having the support of an active listener a kind of a integrative sounding board is very helpful. Taking time in therapy to reflect helps a person to be less conflicted and more focused.
What’s going on
What’s going on is a culture war and a culture war includes spirituality and religion. Spirituality in the sense that we’re not able to communicate with each other on a vibrational frequency. A lot of people have lost their balance and their vibrational energy field. They’ve become at such a lower frequency that they create a sort of a black hole, an abyss which pulls us all in if we allow it. Anybody who wants to be in a positive vibrational frequency can. It isn’t too difficult. It is very possible. And at this time I believe that we need to communicate that to our fellow human beings. There is hope. We have a choice.
Accidental truths
When I kept blabbering on about things that could help the client and the client says oh I already started that two weeks ago. Do clients feel good when they are told to do something by the therapist that they’re already doing? I think so. I mean it’s got to be so difficult to talk about all the things that are wrong that a person can even feel worse by the end of the session. But that’s not a good result. So including a lot of validation and credit for the effort and the progress if there is progress is important for a person. They feel that they are making progress they’re reaching milestones. It’s not like they just feel like overall happier but at first it’s more like things feel lighter. Like there isn’t this big constant energy force that a person has to fight against. Because that energy force is felt within the person and created or at least cocreated by the person. So the person realizes that they can modify things so that their energy is utilized differently they start to see that they have agency. This could work very well with all kinds of therapies but probably really well with cognitive behavioral therapy because it’s like a sort of an emotional philosophical dialogue when a person is in touch with their feelings and processing it by talking about it. And that itself can bring the mind at least closer to the body. Probably in all cases I recommend some kind of yoga or at least breathing exercises and guided meditations. The interesting thing is that a lot of people are already doing that. So it helps the therapy when people who know what the niche is are able to contact me and work with me.
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