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The Easily Damaged Human Mind
We are in a society that damages human minds on a wholesale level.
There are even some that do it on purpose. They find prosperity in a massive amount of mentally incompetent people.
So you as an individual must take measures to avoid damage.
Do your best to stay mentally healthy. Have a sober compos mentis. Quiet periods.
Repetitive activity such as moping a floor. Speak to plants and animals. Go ahead and feed the wildlife. Look at flowers. Enjoy a sunset. Watch the sunrise and thus reset your circadian
rhythms. Trace the paths of the planets through the stars in the evening skies.
Stay away from rock-n-roll or anything that has been historically used as a black weapon.
Repetitive drums and driving beats. Let the nut cases enjoy the riot. Step away. Be different. Enjoy the wellness of a healthy mind instead. That is your real strength in times of serious trouble. You'll find the other guys, they can't deal with it. All they can do is strut around pretending to be cool.
Watch out for people who use guilt and ridicule. Those who can manipulate may seem superhuman but they can only destroy. Don't be their next target. People who are that way, write them off your list and drum them out of your life. Your test of real strength: if their whole crowd laughs at you and you can still just walk away. Their kind of popularity has too high a price, and that is mental illness.
Don't seek horror for entertainment. Reality can be bad enough at times. You can't toughen yourself up for the traumatic. You may be able to
differentiate between entertainment and reality but your subconscious can't. The memories of anything horrible will weaken you in times of stress or when you are encountering actual horror in reality. If you deliberately filled your mind with horrible things with
fictitious entertainment, your ability to take a truly horrible situation in reality will be in
jeopardy, resulting in possible psychological damage.
Don't allow yourself to enjoy shopping. Some if not most big operations use psychology to cause impulse buying and it tends to cause mental problems down the line. Just for security, use earplugs when in stores that play music. It's unlikely they practice subliminal
suggestion, but you know how the "street" drives those big guys to desperation.
Keep allowing yourself to get distracted in hypnotic situations. Hypnotism usually only works if the hypnotist can get you to concentrate. If you find yourself in a sort of
dizzying or dreamy kind of environment in a synthetic situation, an itch can be a big
benefit. Distract yourself and concentrate on anything about you that is slightly
itchy. Something like that can keep you from "going under" in a real hypnotic scenario. And hypnotism is widely practiced by criminals and any off-the-street twenty-five-cent-booklet magician. The problem is when you come 'round, your subconscious is really messed up trying to relate reality to
mesmerism.
It's as ol' Cat Stevens said, "Oh, baby, baby! It's a wild world. Hard to get by on just a smile, girl." You may catch yourself in denial, trying to hope that it's not as bad as it actually is. But remember, no matter the situation there is always something beautiful somewhere to help you get through. At the end of the day, courage, not
callousness is what keeps you going.
I've been twice around the world and traveled over two hundred thousand miles down the road. And though life can throw some pretty drastic things at you sometimes, it's little old you, the real person, not the imaginary you,
big shot, rich, or whatever, that will get through. You need to keep your own mind.
I wrote a little song once in South America one line of which goes like this:
"Won't you light one little candle? Be unpopular today. Who knows if you might just find out and
maybe get away. Come on, light one little candle. You have nothing left to loose, with the starlight for your clothing and the planet for your shoes."
This world has it's problems, but it has some spectacular views. Mankind will let you down, but there's always the universe.
Copyright (c) 2005 by Paul A. L. Hall. All rights reserved.
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