Mental Obsession Discussion / Emotional Sobriety / Spiritual Malady
Our discussion is not partisan, licensed, nor is it an academic or scientific thesis, medical diagnosis, prognosis, philosophy, prescription, discipline, cure or treatment. Based on experience, we neither propose nor oppose any position, person, place, or thing nor do we promote rituals or any religious service - real or imagined. Listening indicates some interest in solving mental conflicts. Automatic reliance on what you hear is not suggested nor is it a substitute for taking direction from responsible parties you rely on, are cared for by or under the influence of, including professionals. Our conversation is about conditions we create, induce and impose, and control even while in disbelief we could possibly have anything to do with such ugly disturbances. We each determine these conditions or come to terms with the role we play by accurately diagnosing them. If your mental state seems wholly out of control that may not actually be correct. There is no greater enemy than the one we imagine to be our self. There is no greater impact anyone else can make on our experience since our brain is where choices are determined immediately alongside our pain and pleasure zones. Induced insanity is a disturbing mental condition. It allows we can make believe we have nothing to do with the problem. As a result it is easy to conclude there is nothing we can do about it. No amount of hopelessness can ever overcome this hopeless thought as long as it is maintained. Mistaking thoughts for reality causes misgivings about Reality and Truth. Life only seems complicated when we mistake how we think of life and truth as our reality. This position presumes there is not other reality. Feeling empty, alone, disconnected? Feeling out of place? Trying to find where you belong, yet never arrive? Seeking, searching, questioning day after day? Trying to feel better, get over the past or get past the present discomfort? Feeling hopeless about hopeless ideas is a good sign that our body language is guiding us accurately - even while we are not listening. Consideration is contemplative, awakened meditation. Absolute Knowing Awareness is simple because it does not change, it is natural and it is our nature - not an option or negotiatiable. Awe and inspiration are the realization that all possibility is present here, now, for all that is and all who are—always in all ways. Knowing’s nature is Absolute: not negotiable, occasional, or optional. There is no doubt where there is no question. Reality and Truth are the Substance of Life. Lying has no substance and so generates unhealthy, conflicted turmoil. Loneliness is an accurate reflection of disconnected, baseless thinking. Creating any cause while denying its effects sustains the vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts, which lie at the center of addictive behaviors. Einstein noted: “You cannot fix a problem with the same thinking that created it.” Symptomatic recovery does not cure obsessive mental illness; it cleans the lens so the problem can be seen. Emotional sobriety is sane living. When wrong is seen as wrong it is right. This does not correct the wrong but allows for correction. Peace on earth does not require the grave thought we must first be being buried in it.
Episodes
"The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view."
Albert Einstein.
It is not a loss of memory but the lack of human perspective we suffer by imagining all that we are is the subject of subjective thought. A dimension of zero has no perspective in space and time - so any imagined self has no value, awareness, or place since it has no life being wholly i...
Abstinence is sanity for any compulsive behavior.
Emotional Sobriety is living sanely once abstinent.
Addiction is a mental problems. Obsessive thougths are not a product of wrong thoughts - but imagning they are right. We are not here to talk about stopping but to come to terms with the fact that we each are Responsible for what we start - and its consqeunces.
Principles are Absolute. They never change. The...
MOD concepts have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events.
Sobriety provides a level of existing clarity previously denied. Looking honestly at mental problems is difficult while obsessed with acting out of order, against any favorable interests, by opposing instinct’s nature that natur...
MOD concepts have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events.
Responsibility is the ability to respond - responsibly.
Accountablity is the ability to count. Accounting done correctly adds up. Feeling like you don't count is the natural byproduct of thoughts that don't add up sinc...
MOD concepts have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode will always reflect the moving fluid nature of current events.
When we are accountable things add up so we feel like we count. Absolute Reality has no reservations or exceptions. We can think IT does and feel isolated and alone while nursing baseless thoughts.
We do not need to understand ...
MOD concepts have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode will reflect the moving fluid nature of current events.
Ego = I. When I am talking to myself there must be a person in second place I am talking to. And if I am trying to fix that self that is pretty good evidence I think of it as broken while real enough to fix. Imposter syndrome is not a...
MOD concepts have no shelf-life or expiration date. Since our focus is principled and always happening now - each episode will reflect the moving fluid nature of current events.
Before discussing the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and how they can be applied to all compulsive behaviors and obsessive thoughts consider this: Identifying the mental problem of addiction, like diagnosing any disease, includes th...
It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
Responsiveness is the ability to respond - Responsibly.
Reactiveness, like righteousness. is an automated fight for right that is wrong.
Reactivity precedes impulsivity and immediately triggers compulsive behaviors. Obsessive thoughts are reactive, defensive, defiant denial, and so delusion...
The contagion of mentally obsessive thinking is not carried by bacteria or viruses but toxic silence when thoughtful but not always welcome words could help, or by speaking up with words that reinforce the sick thoughtlessness of this induced mental state. The imposition of this addiction is not a state of Mind but of a brain that has been mis-used and abused by imagining it is the creator of reality and truth ...
Obsessive thinking does not hear what is said but what is thought to be said. Nor does it see what is visibly clear but only what is thought to be seen. To hear and see things that don’t exist is well defined as insanity. Definitions are explicit. Connotations are used to claim semantics reduce our culpability.
Thinking about our self is a hallmark of so-called selfish, self centered, self serving problems. To ...
“Suffering reveals the soul, not to others, but to oneself.”
Dostoevsky
“And still, in all my suffering, I wondered if there was even a self to reveal.”
Kafka
“I held on because I believed pain meant it was real”
Dostoyevsky
“I let go because nothing real should hurt that long”
Kafka
We Know We Know.
We Are Aware We Are Aware.
We Are as We Are.
Reality is unlimited and never changes. The idea that h...
MOD episodes have no shelf-life or expiration date. Our focus is principled so each episode reflects the immediate peace and stability of our Ever-Present Knowing Awareness that clarifies conflicted impressions manifest by the instability and hyper-reactivity of obsessive thoughts purely induced, “imagined reality”.
While the Absolute nature of Life is an unadulterated gift - we earn our human experience. Good ...
If we can talk about waiting for a sign while ignoring the signs we’re given we can also begin to notice the clarity of our feelings accurately assessing our thoughts. Displaced thought causes the sensation of not belonging and having no place or purpose. To imagine thought as reality then thinking we have no other option is an indication we are aware that Reality is Real and not optional. To think this form of...
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already, but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already.”
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy; "Leo"
We Know We Know.
We Are Aware We Are Aware.
We Are as We Are.
Reality is unlimited and never changes. The...
“It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
Responsiveness is the ability to respond - Responsibility.
Reactiveness is an automated fight for what is right while wrong.
Reactivity precedes impulsivity and immediately triggers compulsive behaviors. Obsessive thoughts are reactive, defensive, defiant denial, and so delusional. None of...
“It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
Responsiveness is the ability to respond - Responsibly.
Reactiveness is an automated fight for what is right while wrong.
Reactivity precedes impulsivity and immediately triggers compulsive behaviors. Obsessive thoughts are reactive, defensive, defiant denial, and so delusional. None of th...
"The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view."
Albert Einstein.
It is not a loss of memory but the lack of human perspective we suffer by imagining all that we are is the subject of subjective thought. A dimension of zero has no perspective in space and time - so any imagined self has no value, awareness, or place since it has no life being wholly i...
" Evil destroys even itself."
Aristotle.
" Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."
Aldous Huxley
The word evil is live, and devil is lived spelled backward. Lies are backward forms of thought imagining false is true or truth is false. Whenever we choose to think this way inner conflict, emotional turmoil, and mental anguish indicate we know someth...
“It’s not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
Responsiveness is the ability to respond - Responsibility.
Reactiveness, like righteousness. is an automated fight for what is right while wrong.
Reactivity precedes impulsivity and immediately triggers compulsive behaviors. Obsessive thoughts are reactive, defensive, defiant denial, and s...
Having to do something is a very different experience than having something to do. Our approach determines whether our landing is safe or not. How and what we think are choices. That we think is simply something we do. We cannot be what we do any more than we can do more to Be. To be or not to be still seems to be the question begging, pleading, and praying for an answer. Seeking more can never be enough to...
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