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
221 episodes
MOD Paul IX
"Evil destroys even itself." Aristotle. " Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."Aldous HuxleyThe word evil is live, and devil is lived spelled backwa...
MOD Paul VIII
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 exist...
MOD Paul VII
"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...
MOD CXIX Gabe, Marc, Paul
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....
MOD Marc V
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 exist...
MOD Paul VI
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 r...
MOD Jack III
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...
MOD Jack II
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 mysel...
MOD Jack I
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 A...
MOD Paul V
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. i...
MOD Gabe V
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 m...
MOD Marc IV
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 explic...
MOD Marc III
“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”D...
MOD Gabe IV
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...
MOD Paul IV
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 ...
MOD Paul III
“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.”
MOD Paul II
“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 fig...
MOD Nick + Nancy I
“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 ...
MOD Gabe III
"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...
MOD Gabe II
" Evil destroys even itself." Aristotle. " Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."Aldous HuxleyThe word evil is live, and devil is lived spelled backward. ...
MOD CXVIII
“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 righteousnes...
MOD Marc II
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 cann...
MOD CXVII
It is not negative to share thoughts. Negating freely chosen thoughts creates the impression we are not free as long as mentality is thought of as reality. Ego's modern definition is a false self. What is false has no basis in reali...