What do religion, spirituality, meditation, and mental
illness all have in common? ----- euphoria. A mental
sense that transcends reality. Euphoria is a symptom and
the participant seems like a fanatic, a zealot. When you
find yourself in an episode, you are being romanced by
your symptoms and seduced into following that euphoria.
It is not thrill seeking. That would create adrenaline.
Euphoria is ethereal, an out of body like experience. It
feels magical, if you can imagine what magical would
be like. In a way, all your senses are awash with feeling,
being, and are attuned to the tiniest little thing. It could
be the sidewalk hieroglyphics that might show on the
sidewalk to guide you, it could be the clouds, or it could
be that you see a garden among weeds.
Your brain makes you feel like you are having
premonitions and that relief is just around the corner.
Well, I can tell you that relief is elusive. You never quite
make it to your personal epiphany and you begin to
travel into danger. It is this behavior that worries people.
It worries your family, it worries your friends, it is strange
and unusual to strangers who are not worried- they are
afraid. They are scared.
So, what do I do to give myself a reality check? I tell
myself that if I can touch it, then I can prove it. If I can't
touch it, well, then I can't prove it. That is what I learned
from experience. Euphoria, well, I don't know if that
would be instinct.
I like this little saying:
"The ignorance of my reason, contrasts with my
wisdom of knowledge"
The ignorance of my reason, is pure instinct.
and
wisdom of knowledge, is experience.
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illness all have in common? ----- euphoria. A mental
sense that transcends reality. Euphoria is a symptom and
the participant seems like a fanatic, a zealot. When you
find yourself in an episode, you are being romanced by
your symptoms and seduced into following that euphoria.
It is not thrill seeking. That would create adrenaline.
Euphoria is ethereal, an out of body like experience. It
feels magical, if you can imagine what magical would
be like. In a way, all your senses are awash with feeling,
being, and are attuned to the tiniest little thing. It could
be the sidewalk hieroglyphics that might show on the
sidewalk to guide you, it could be the clouds, or it could
be that you see a garden among weeds.
Your brain makes you feel like you are having
premonitions and that relief is just around the corner.
Well, I can tell you that relief is elusive. You never quite
make it to your personal epiphany and you begin to
travel into danger. It is this behavior that worries people.
It worries your family, it worries your friends, it is strange
and unusual to strangers who are not worried- they are
afraid. They are scared.
So, what do I do to give myself a reality check? I tell
myself that if I can touch it, then I can prove it. If I can't
touch it, well, then I can't prove it. That is what I learned
from experience. Euphoria, well, I don't know if that
would be instinct.
I like this little saying:
"The ignorance of my reason, contrasts with my
wisdom of knowledge"
The ignorance of my reason, is pure instinct.
and
wisdom of knowledge, is experience.
Vocabulary ABC's
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