What is mental illness?
Becoming a victim of a mental illness is probably one of the biggest fears in the west, not entirely irrational if you belief yourself to be at the subject of dead matter.
But regardless of belief:
You will always have the experience of free will over your mind, which means you can choose positive thoughts, can (lean to) still the mind, can face suppressed emotions and just be and rest as the sane still awareness.
However people can have the experience of feeling out of control because certain fears keep reoccurring and stir up the mind.
This is because people are virtually always filled with (a lot of) unconscious negative imprints, do not know themselves as pure free awareness and do not see that all thoughts/beliefs are inherently not ultimately true, as all thoughts are temporary.
These fears do not just pop up out of nowhere, they were picked up along the way, because we as ignorant open children believed most of the negativity/suppression that was projected upon us. This can be seen when looking at small children, they are not so afraid yet to meet a stranger with an open heart, to dance and sing just as they like and to be mindlessly creative without fear.
But by the time they are teenagers this has largely disappeared into shy, cynical or arrogant behavior.
This is where depression comes from.
One literally has depressed the free natural loving self.
At some point, this will sink in, and they will realize the temporary pleasures of the world will never fill this void. That can be hard, especially when one doesn't know or understand that their inner being can be healed and freed.
Things that can resolve are; meditation, being willing to be open; talking openly, psychedelics and anything involving raising awareness (creative expression and especially singing are good ways to reveal blockage and go beyond them).
Though meditation is always the most direct way to face the bondage of suppressed trauma and to eventually realize one's true nature as free blissful consciousness that transcends the ego/world.
What about psychosis or schizophrenia?
We can be dealing with different things when it comes to schizophrenia, psychosis or mania.
- Either a Spiritual (or kundalini) awakening:
This may consist of an opening of the psychic or emphatic senses, a (sudden) increase in awareness, a shift in awareness, become more aware of synchronicity, experiencing having more energy and experiencing energetic movement within the body.
This can radically change one's beliefs and behaviors, seeing how the world is different than what we have been told.
These awakenings are not uncommon, especially when one does spiritual practice like meditation or uses substances that increase one's awareness, but one should not be feared: it is natural and wonderful and you can simply experience these things and still have a very balanced mind.
These symptoms do of course sound like a 'broken brain or body' in most materialist eyes, and there actually is some truth to that because it is often paired with an imbalanced mind, as such a radical shift alone can be challenging it also tends to bring up a lot of previous completely unconscious negative imprints that come into awarenses and may then not be dealt with so properly.
-It can be an out of control ego.
Psychosis is the opposite from being calm and balance, it comes from fear which comes from the negative imprints on the mind, as the natural self is just balanced peaceful free consciousness.
When the ego has to deal with negative imprints (which can spontaneously come up or are triggered by external stimuli), it can either accept them, go through them and release them (i.e. by having a cry) or see through them, this makes one free-er and removes false ego masks and barriers.
Or it can deny and resist them and create even bigger ego, when this gets to extremes we call this psychosis.
The ego can try to deny it's own inner fears by only blaming external factors: paranoia.
Or the ego can create extreme views about oneself when it is faced with negative ideas about the self, it can try to hide it's insecurity by acting grandiose, it may act extremely belittling or harming to oneself, it may feel it has to do certain things (or not do certain things) to try and prove it's worthiness, to God, themselves or society.
There is by the way never anything that you need to do or be in order to be worthy of life: you are a way through which the universe can experience itself inside a universe of duality: good-bad, hot-cold, positive-negative etc. both opposites need to exist.
You cannot have good without bad, and so there is no such thing as better or worse. The universe knows this, this is why God or greater consciousness is always experienced as unconditional love.
-Lastly there maybe some physiological issues which may cause distortions in one's senses. But any situation is still always neutral and can deal with anything in a positive way as a person's awareness rises, as the world and the person in it will always remain a picture arising in consciousness consisting of raw data.
'But isn't this all genetic?'
No. Identical twins do not always get it together, so it cannot be solely genetic.
Though Identical twins have a 25-50% chance to be diagnosed together (and around 10% for fraternal twins), this could be because genetics may cause one to be more prone to stress or psychic/spiritual awareness and or because identical twins are also closer to each other in life.
Becoming a victim of a mental illness is probably one of the biggest fears in the west, not entirely irrational if you belief yourself to be at the subject of dead matter.
But regardless of belief:
You will always have the experience of free will over your mind, which means you can choose positive thoughts, can (lean to) still the mind, can face suppressed emotions and just be and rest as the sane still awareness.
However people can have the experience of feeling out of control because certain fears keep reoccurring and stir up the mind.
This is because people are virtually always filled with (a lot of) unconscious negative imprints, do not know themselves as pure free awareness and do not see that all thoughts/beliefs are inherently not ultimately true, as all thoughts are temporary.
These fears do not just pop up out of nowhere, they were picked up along the way, because we as ignorant open children believed most of the negativity/suppression that was projected upon us. This can be seen when looking at small children, they are not so afraid yet to meet a stranger with an open heart, to dance and sing just as they like and to be mindlessly creative without fear.
But by the time they are teenagers this has largely disappeared into shy, cynical or arrogant behavior.
This is where depression comes from.
One literally has depressed the free natural loving self.
At some point, this will sink in, and they will realize the temporary pleasures of the world will never fill this void. That can be hard, especially when one doesn't know or understand that their inner being can be healed and freed.
Things that can resolve are; meditation, being willing to be open; talking openly, psychedelics and anything involving raising awareness (creative expression and especially singing are good ways to reveal blockage and go beyond them).
Though meditation is always the most direct way to face the bondage of suppressed trauma and to eventually realize one's true nature as free blissful consciousness that transcends the ego/world.
What about psychosis or schizophrenia?
We can be dealing with different things when it comes to schizophrenia, psychosis or mania.
- Either a Spiritual (or kundalini) awakening:
This may consist of an opening of the psychic or emphatic senses, a (sudden) increase in awareness, a shift in awareness, become more aware of synchronicity, experiencing having more energy and experiencing energetic movement within the body.
This can radically change one's beliefs and behaviors, seeing how the world is different than what we have been told.
These awakenings are not uncommon, especially when one does spiritual practice like meditation or uses substances that increase one's awareness, but one should not be feared: it is natural and wonderful and you can simply experience these things and still have a very balanced mind.
These symptoms do of course sound like a 'broken brain or body' in most materialist eyes, and there actually is some truth to that because it is often paired with an imbalanced mind, as such a radical shift alone can be challenging it also tends to bring up a lot of previous completely unconscious negative imprints that come into awarenses and may then not be dealt with so properly.
-It can be an out of control ego.
Psychosis is the opposite from being calm and balance, it comes from fear which comes from the negative imprints on the mind, as the natural self is just balanced peaceful free consciousness.
When the ego has to deal with negative imprints (which can spontaneously come up or are triggered by external stimuli), it can either accept them, go through them and release them (i.e. by having a cry) or see through them, this makes one free-er and removes false ego masks and barriers.
Or it can deny and resist them and create even bigger ego, when this gets to extremes we call this psychosis.
The ego can try to deny it's own inner fears by only blaming external factors: paranoia.
Or the ego can create extreme views about oneself when it is faced with negative ideas about the self, it can try to hide it's insecurity by acting grandiose, it may act extremely belittling or harming to oneself, it may feel it has to do certain things (or not do certain things) to try and prove it's worthiness, to God, themselves or society.
There is by the way never anything that you need to do or be in order to be worthy of life: you are a way through which the universe can experience itself inside a universe of duality: good-bad, hot-cold, positive-negative etc. both opposites need to exist.
You cannot have good without bad, and so there is no such thing as better or worse. The universe knows this, this is why God or greater consciousness is always experienced as unconditional love.
-Lastly there maybe some physiological issues which may cause distortions in one's senses. But any situation is still always neutral and can deal with anything in a positive way as a person's awareness rises, as the world and the person in it will always remain a picture arising in consciousness consisting of raw data.
'But isn't this all genetic?'
No. Identical twins do not always get it together, so it cannot be solely genetic.
Though Identical twins have a 25-50% chance to be diagnosed together (and around 10% for fraternal twins), this could be because genetics may cause one to be more prone to stress or psychic/spiritual awareness and or because identical twins are also closer to each other in life.
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