Posted by jojo on July 23, 2001, at 22:22:30
In reply to Re: Dopamine function in Social Phobia, posted by Else on July 23, 2001, at 18:03:26
> Good advice but sometimes hard to follow when you're insane.
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> > After seeing the movie "Ghost Dog" (which is to be taken seriously, not merely an action movie), I bought the book "Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai", which is the philosophical basis of the film. I find that a quotation from it often helps me: 'If discrimination is long, it will spoil'... 'One should make his decision within the space of seven breaths'. Obviously it doesn't matter a hell of a lot if you put one or two creams in your coffee. It is the Big decisions that should be made in seven breaths. You may find that the results are just as satisfactory, and the pain a lot less.
When you're insane? It's hard to follow anytime,
but realizing that deliberating more doesn't give
one any better chance of success is one of the reasons it's
considered 'the way of the warrior'.I don't know how is effects Compulsives, but for Obsessives and Depressives, it
gives them the "Strength to Get Up and Do What Needs To Be Done" (plagiarized from
Garrison Keillor, re. Powder Milk Biscuits. It does help Obsessives overcome certain
difficulties in beginning something if they realize that it is the act of starting
that is more important than what is started. Almost intuitively, one knows that
starting after seven breaths is better than starting, or not yet starting, after seven
times ten thousand breaths.Schizophrenics and everyone else out there, including the "normal" lurkers will have
to decide for themselves.
poster:jojo
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