Posted by 64bowtie on November 8, 2008, at 13:11:25
Bottom line, as a non-licensed professional, who should ever listen to me?
No remedy works without fault when you go a 100 miles an hour after it! We are all tired of being tired of being tired, so hurrying toward relief may be a myth, but it insidiously prevails. Thats the main reason MDs and Pdocs prescribe tranquilizers, mood enhancers, and sedatives as recovery tools for clients. All sides rationalize that meds are a necessary coping mechanism till the client recovers and gets well, which seldom happens. It must be like getting on the train to Nowhere. I guess I was lucky I missed it.
I side with the Neuro-science folks that assume we are all mostly OK at birth, but bad diets and our own bad attitudes and motives cause great chemical stresses that show-up as catastrophes, sometimes. Layer in meds by prescription at 100 miles an hour and all opportunities for sanity are out the window.
Toooo many good chemicals always has bad body chemistry results. Anyone who lives near a medical college hospital (Stanford University would be nice), can volunteer for a body chemistry work-up and see if the list of meds being taken might be causing chemical imbalances.
When I start talking, I appear to folks as if Im from some other planet, or the future, perhaps. Yet, for thousands of years, in our past till present, aboriginal tribes from Africa, the Americas and Australia practiced methods similar to my suggested techniques.Not only have these early tribes ritualized these techniques in their folklore and shamanism, but continue to practice them, passing them down to oncoming generations. This is not about glorifying shamanism in any way, but connecting my techniques to an earliest known time of their practice.
The title of this thread is "Why OOB": Why Out Of Body. Simply put, Out Of Body is a suggested technique for handling lifes problems successfully, always holding down stressors, and their residual social strain, to a minimum, from a perspective other than our daily grind.In contrast, MDs and Pdocs by focusing on a "meds" only program, give up an opportunity for the client to get well. A more measured approach to "meds" relief in concert with rigorous schedule of talking (and listening) in group and individual sessions, improves results of any program.
Unfortunately, "meds" can impede and dilute progress obtained by work Out Of Body, implying to most that its practice doesn't work. Next week, I will pass my 12th anniversary of personal use of Out Of Body techniques, more or less, using myself as a sort of clinic. What helps is I seem to always be somewhere totally absent of "meds", so my personal progress marches on unimpeded.
A much more complete picture emerges from clients of mine anecdotally. Clients simply discover eventually that they see/feel more progress and less stress by staying away from their prescribed "meds", once Out Of Body becomes habituated, thus preferred, for problem solving. Side effects of the "meds" consistently leave clients confused and erratic, allowing mistakes and missteps of judgment to render problems even larger, along with more facets to now deal with.
We all seek a quiet mind, absent the chaotic cacophony of conflict and crisis, which produce competing life tensioners and stressors. I assure the reader, I have my quiet mind. This certainty of has brought me a new and deeper inner peace and happiness for 5 years now.
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