Mental Health and Spirituality, this is an edited excerpt from this author's blog post that I find both helpful and inflammatory. I am not adverse to strong opinions, for I certainly have expressed a number of them in my day. However, this article and book is worth the open minded exploration to see what triggers are firing mentally, spiritually and physically when depression strikes.
http://www.healedspirit.com/2011/07/mental-health-and-spirituality/
"The topic of mental health and its relationship with spirituality is quite a sticky wicket. Just the fact that so much of spiritual belief and practice depends upon intensely personal and subjective thoughts and experiences makes it hard to draw a line between mental “illness” and the vivid spiritual experience. Throw in the dogma attached to both the psychiatric/psychological fields and the sometimes just-as-rigid “New Age” movement, and you’ve got a can of worms that’s not easy to untangle."
"I’m aware of therapists and psychologists who won’t even discuss spirituality because they equate it with religion. It’s startling to find such close-mindedness in a profession that perforce requires a whole bunch of winging it to be effective. But even the less rigid psychologists who recognize the value of some kind of spiritual belief as a part of a healthy ego, generally refrain from introducing it into the therapeutic program in favor of the safety of what they were taught in school; and when they do, it’s usually centered around the mainstream notion of relying on a Higher Power outside of the patient’s influence, to be supplicated for help..."
"...All that said, there is for every physical/mental illness or malady a reflection in our spiritual aspect. As it is above, so it is below (and vice-versa). If we’re sick in the body, there’s usually also something wrong in our mind, our emotions, and yes…in our soul. In my training, my practice, my intuitive insights and in my observations, I’m quite sure that mental illness more often than not has roots in the higher dimensions…and the “vice-versa” part is that it can be rooted in the physical and have an effect on those higher dimensions of our psyche. For instance, mental abilities can be affected by head trauma, which obviously is going to affect our emotional aspects, and I dare say our ability to evolve spiritually since we have lost some of the ability to consciously learn and act. That would be a case of the physical dimension having an effect on the spiritual dimension..."
"Going the other way…from spiritual-level damage to physical/mental…is, of course, quite an esoteric topic. All I can do is to relate my observations and conjectures.
Firstly, in the interest of openness, I will say that I have several family members who have been seriously mentally ill. One is fine now; the other is perhaps recovering, perhaps not. At any rate, I think that that has given me a unique point of view since I have been intimate witness to not only the life-disrupting aspects of the thing; but I have spent much time thinking about and researching remedies for it..."
"The first thing that I need to relate is something that I touched upon above: one should never, ever rely solely upon any kind of psychic or spiritual remedy for serious mental illness. The kind of clearing work that I do, for example, is based upon the conscious participation of the patient or client. A person who lacks the capability to think clearly has, to some extent, lost not only a frame of reference…they’ve also lost a good portion of their free will. Indeed, exposure to the kind of esoteric practices common to many healing modalities could be destructive for these people, simply serving to reinforce their idea that “this” reality is not real at all.
In my healing modality, one common cause of serious mental disruption is the loss of soul facets (or “fragments”). In a nutshell, particular and specific parts of the soul are missing…the ability to interact socially, the sense of reality, or the ability to be creative or to love. Often, several of these aspects can be missing at the same time. And it’s not as though these parts of the individual can be “taught” or “therapied” back into existence…they’re simply gone. Unavailable. In some cases these essential personality fragments can be recovered. But it’s extremely difficult..."
"...Yet another source of mental distress can come from open “portalways” to past-life experiences. We live in the physical under a veil that is in place for a reason. Imagine experiencing a hundred lifetimes at once, and it’s easy to see how a psychotic person would have trouble dealing with daily life. And access to certain experiences within those lives could obviously be bothersome; having vivid memories of trauma like being murdered, executed, or of war experiences with no filter in place is bound to produce difficulty.
In the next post, I’ll address some specific cases and discuss the possible root causes and why a soul might choose to incarnate into a life of infirmity and low level functioning."
Mental Health and Spirituality, there is a great deal of "food for thought" in this author's work and his book. If you are suffering from depression and are unclear of the cause, it may be of help to you to explore these spiritual insights.
http://www.healedspirit.com/2011/07/mental-health-and-spirituality/
"The topic of mental health and its relationship with spirituality is quite a sticky wicket. Just the fact that so much of spiritual belief and practice depends upon intensely personal and subjective thoughts and experiences makes it hard to draw a line between mental “illness” and the vivid spiritual experience. Throw in the dogma attached to both the psychiatric/psychological fields and the sometimes just-as-rigid “New Age” movement, and you’ve got a can of worms that’s not easy to untangle."
"I’m aware of therapists and psychologists who won’t even discuss spirituality because they equate it with religion. It’s startling to find such close-mindedness in a profession that perforce requires a whole bunch of winging it to be effective. But even the less rigid psychologists who recognize the value of some kind of spiritual belief as a part of a healthy ego, generally refrain from introducing it into the therapeutic program in favor of the safety of what they were taught in school; and when they do, it’s usually centered around the mainstream notion of relying on a Higher Power outside of the patient’s influence, to be supplicated for help..."
"...All that said, there is for every physical/mental illness or malady a reflection in our spiritual aspect. As it is above, so it is below (and vice-versa). If we’re sick in the body, there’s usually also something wrong in our mind, our emotions, and yes…in our soul. In my training, my practice, my intuitive insights and in my observations, I’m quite sure that mental illness more often than not has roots in the higher dimensions…and the “vice-versa” part is that it can be rooted in the physical and have an effect on those higher dimensions of our psyche. For instance, mental abilities can be affected by head trauma, which obviously is going to affect our emotional aspects, and I dare say our ability to evolve spiritually since we have lost some of the ability to consciously learn and act. That would be a case of the physical dimension having an effect on the spiritual dimension..."
"Going the other way…from spiritual-level damage to physical/mental…is, of course, quite an esoteric topic. All I can do is to relate my observations and conjectures.
Firstly, in the interest of openness, I will say that I have several family members who have been seriously mentally ill. One is fine now; the other is perhaps recovering, perhaps not. At any rate, I think that that has given me a unique point of view since I have been intimate witness to not only the life-disrupting aspects of the thing; but I have spent much time thinking about and researching remedies for it..."
"The first thing that I need to relate is something that I touched upon above: one should never, ever rely solely upon any kind of psychic or spiritual remedy for serious mental illness. The kind of clearing work that I do, for example, is based upon the conscious participation of the patient or client. A person who lacks the capability to think clearly has, to some extent, lost not only a frame of reference…they’ve also lost a good portion of their free will. Indeed, exposure to the kind of esoteric practices common to many healing modalities could be destructive for these people, simply serving to reinforce their idea that “this” reality is not real at all.
In my healing modality, one common cause of serious mental disruption is the loss of soul facets (or “fragments”). In a nutshell, particular and specific parts of the soul are missing…the ability to interact socially, the sense of reality, or the ability to be creative or to love. Often, several of these aspects can be missing at the same time. And it’s not as though these parts of the individual can be “taught” or “therapied” back into existence…they’re simply gone. Unavailable. In some cases these essential personality fragments can be recovered. But it’s extremely difficult..."
"...Yet another source of mental distress can come from open “portalways” to past-life experiences. We live in the physical under a veil that is in place for a reason. Imagine experiencing a hundred lifetimes at once, and it’s easy to see how a psychotic person would have trouble dealing with daily life. And access to certain experiences within those lives could obviously be bothersome; having vivid memories of trauma like being murdered, executed, or of war experiences with no filter in place is bound to produce difficulty.
In the next post, I’ll address some specific cases and discuss the possible root causes and why a soul might choose to incarnate into a life of infirmity and low level functioning."
Mental Health and Spirituality, there is a great deal of "food for thought" in this author's work and his book. If you are suffering from depression and are unclear of the cause, it may be of help to you to explore these spiritual insights.
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