We should not neglect the opposite thoughts but bring it to awareness. This will lead to a synthesis and then we will grow
Can we as citizens of the world do something to stop the insane Putin from starting a nuclear war
We interlize the external people and when they hurt us. Don't expect the real other to have the sense to apologise. But the author can talk about many characters and speak about them We can speak as if the other inside is apologising and then you will calm down
Reflection helps us to give meaning to life.it helps us to be grateful to people who have been important in our life
It is only by being aware of our anger and vicious nature and control over it that we can become kind
There is a child inside you. If you tell yourself to do something you are hurting the child within you. So you have to soothe the child inside you by telling it that I told you to do something.
The real meaning of the Sisyphus story is to laugh at the absurdity of life and not to take things seriously
You have to learn that your paranoia makes you see the bad in the other.. But if you learn to reflect on that matter and you are able to see the same aspects within your own self. You will know more about your self. Practicing in this manner you will detach from the world
The new information that we receive goes first to the hippocampus. Because the hippocampus job is to receive new information it has to forget the previous information which it has to pass on to the surrounding regions. once the memory reaches the frontal lobes only then it is a long term memory. So don't be in a hurry to master any subject, wait for the information to be relayed to the higher regions of the brain.
When the ego gets inflated one has to consider that he is only human. One has to bring himself down and understand that he is not God but only human.
If you have read philosophy you are aware that life is meaningless and absurd. It is only by verbalising the stings of life that we can reduce the impact of the stings which life gives us. So be grateful for being able to verbalize through language.
In philosophy there is thesis and antithesis and synthesis.. in addictions the thesis is the urge and the antithesis is to laugh at the thought of indulging in the addictions. The resulting synthesis is neither the urge nor the dislike. It is the act of becoming a new you.
Treat your mind as the other. Verbalize what is going on in the mind. Feel what the thoughts are telling you. Create a relationship with yourself. The mind thrives in a relationship. Developing a strong relationship with your own self will make you self sufficient and you will not need any out side help
When you feel the urge to smoke you try to verbalize the feeling like I feel like smoking. if the urge to smoke is very strong then you can verbalize it as I can not hold myself from smoking and wait for the thought to resonate in your mind and body. you may lose some time but if you are persistent with the practice then you will ultimately win
What is mindfulness. Try to catch the fleeting thought and verbalize it in your mind. After verbalising it let it sink in. If you can feel the thought in your body so much the better,so begin the thought with the word I feel
Entry in the subconscious mind of the analysand by the analyst is a fascinating process. The analyst who is a total stranger to the patient, has to respond to the patient by repeating what the analysand has said. This manner of acknowledging the speach of the analysand continues for several days. I want to plant the idea of how to get in contact with our own self. This is done by repeating what thought comes to our mind. By verbalizing mentally the thought and next step is to again express the same thought in second person voice.