Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM
Subject: mental health notes [ot]
From: spanda@...
Date: 2001-09-15
After reading Paul's Update I decided to send this to the motm list too.
Due to this weeks circumstances most of us have been flooded with violent
and negative energy. Many of us who almost never watch TV stay glued to
CNN or Fox or the networks till bedtime.
Please don't forget to take the time to practice your regular sub-conscious
clearing and programming routine prior to sleep. Whether it is meditation,
or reading of elevating texts, whatever, don't forget to do it.
No one should head off to sleep with deeply inlaid images of the jet
hitting the WTC, of calls to war, of shaken rescue workers, or of deeply
grieving friends and relatives. Sleep will be fitful at best and the
chances of bad dreams much higher.
Take control over this Niagara and calm yourself. Consciously place high
order imagery and transcendental thought trains into your night's thought
processes. Divert the mind into, at minimum, neutrality. Achieving and
keeping trans-personal states of being prior to sleep is even more
desirable.
These are trying times. A bit of mental housecleaning each evening can
make things appear a bit more balanced and can bias one's daily responses
and actions toward the positive.
regards,
mitch
ps. one gentleman, a psych-nurse from Seattle, wrote me back and said he
has been reading the Piggly Wiggly books from his happy childhood in order
to calm his mind.
mb