Can The mind heal...????????

billeeeeeee · Guru

Can The mind heal...????????

Pejay · Guru

I'm learning to stand taller each day!!! I'm now standing at 5'2", and still growing.

neilnruth · Guru

Wow! Another shorty like me - I have to stretch to get to 5'2".

animalcarer · Senior Member

can the mind heal. ? Debatable, its no joke if a human being is serontonin deficient. When you say mind, do you mean the brain?

Pejay · Guru

Ahh.... it has been bothering me all night to think that some may have thought I was being smart - no I wasn't. When you have had to deal with child abuse all your life (and there are other types of child abuse than sexual) and finally I can start to walk tall WITHOUT that abuse from the one who gives you life and was supposed to love you unconditionally, and really should not have been a parent, yeah ...... it is indeed wonderful! So that is why I said that I am still learning to grow tall!! My apologies for not explaining myself better.

But as my Dad used to say .... I could sue every council in the land for building the footpaths too close to my rear-end!! My Dad was someone very special to me, and I miss him every day.

-- Edited by Pejay on Thursday 30th of August 2012 07:48:06 AM

jules47 · The Happy Helper

As I get older, I am finding that my brain doesn't retain things like it used to - maybe because it just doesn't need to - things that just don't matter in the larger schemes of things - nowadays I just let some things go - if people hurt me emotionally I believe that is their problem, not mine!!!!

Gerty Dancer · Guru

I've been thinking about this, and I've seen people's mind actually bring about their death just with depression and negative thinking and saying to everybody "I wish I was dead".

And some people no matter how bad things seem, never give up, and their body eventually after a long fight, gets better!

Our minds can do anything.

billeeeeeee · Guru

Gerty Dancer wrote:
I've been thinking about this, and I've seen people's mind actually bring about their death just with depression and negative thinking and saying to everybody "I wish I was dead".

And some people no matter how bad things seem, never give up, and their body eventually after a long fight, gets better!

Our minds can do anything.

Good on U Gerty,glad to c someone on the tight track,,,,,,,,,,,,stay excited,,,,,,,,,Billeeeeeee

animalcarer · Senior Member

Question: Query A Pun A play on words. OK Thanks for clarifying that .

Some people unfortunately cannot pull themselves up by the boot straps, its a long long journey, patience, kindness, whatever is available and permissable can eventually have some degree of a turn around, it depends on the severity of the trauma, abuse etc. No body can just snap out of negative thought, wish it was that simple for the human brain mind to do that. I would be a millionare if I knew the answer, what works for some , does not work for others. Everybody wants to feel whole, happy, etc, Peejay I empathise with everything you have said, I also walk tall, its a marvellous feeling to know that the instigator of our demons etc is no longer around . Peace out.

Pejay · Guru

Thank you Lynette, I started to write more, but deleted it, today is too nice a day to be down in the dumps!

milo · Guru

my dad often says , you forget to remember things or i forget to bring something over ...

but i turn it around and say , yeah but dad, you didn't remind me either!!

and another saying is " well that's one day down , and another above ground"

Cruising Granny · Guru

It's hard to walk tall, even as an adult, when all around you have knocked you down, one way or another.
When children were to be seen and not heard, they were also not encouraged to reach their potential, or even to form some type of personality or to explore their abilities and possibilities.
Then suddenly they were expected to grow up and be adults, and independent of those people they had been forced to depend on.
I'm sure the mind can heal, but the scars may remain. Even if they fade over time, there is always a faint scar which rears it's sore spots from time to time, with varying degrees of intensity.
I do get episodes of the black dog, usually because I'm frustrated at not really knowing my own potential or good skills, and the lack of ability to pursue an ambition or goal. Shadows from the past cross over sometimes, but they just make me cranky and more determined to get on with it.
I'm not a good suicide prospective. I've got too much to live for and things to do with my available time. The biggest frustration is to get my books read, and to get them read they have to be published, and to get them published I have to find an agent.
It's this frustration that gets to me, so I just get on with it.
The brain really does heal. I wish spines healed. In fact I wish old bones healed the way they should.

moblet · Senior Member

Dr Fiona Wood seems to think so: http://www.fionawoodfoundation.com/pages/5178/research-projects (see The Nervous System Contribution to Recovery and Healing in Burn Injury). She also talks about it in this interview with Richard Fidler on ABC Radio.

My current belief is that our bodies have an innate capacity to heal that can be affected by a lot of things, and that our minds can hinder or help it do so. I also believe that our minds do this both consciously and unconsciously.

Popeye · Senior Member

Try living with PTSD.I have been living with it since 1967. Not good.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder???? Disease??? - sorry not good with initials - yes, I can imaging that would be not a very nice thing to live with at all!!!

moblet · Senior Member

Popeye wrote:
Try living with PTSD.I have been living with it since 1967. Not good.

I know a few people who have it in some form or another, and have had it for a long time. Their lives aren't real easy either.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

The lives of those who live with the PTSD sufferer can be very ordinary too. One's attitude really does make a difference.

billeeeeeee · Guru

I walk in and out of many worlds.

In my mind are many dwellings. Each of the dwellings
we create ourselves the house of anger, the house of
despair, the house of self-pity, the house of
indifference, the house of negative, the house of
positive, the house of hope, the house of joy, the
house of peace, the house of enthusiasm, the house of
...

cooperation, the house of giving. Each of these houses
we visit each day. We can stay in any house for as
long as we want. We can leave these mental houses any
time we wish. We create the dwelling, we stay in the
dwelling, we leave the dwelling whenever we wish. We
can create new rooms, new houses. Whenever we enter
these dwellings this becomes our world until we leave
for another. What world will we live in today? My
Creator, no one can determine which dwelling I choose
to enter. No one has the power to do so, only me. Let
me choose wisely today

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Beautiful Billeeee... thank you!

Pejay · Guru

Thank you from me too Billeeee, makes for a lot of sense.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Beautiful words, Billeeeeeee.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Mostly because we dont believe it can Billeeee. I know it and believe it, but still catch myself being negative quite often.

Billeee, is that quote from the same one as I remember as Meister Eckhart?

-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Thursday 27th of September 2012 09:57:27 AM

billeeeeeee · Guru

Surely if the body can heal, cuts Bruises, ect, then why cant the mind heal the problems of the Mind,????

billeeeeeee · Guru

Gerty Dancer wrote:
Mostly because we dont believe it can Billeeee. I know it and believe it, but still catch myself being negative quite often.
Billeee, is that quote from the same one as I remember as Meister E- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Thursday 27th of September 2012 09:57:27 AM

Howdyeeee Gerty, George Carlin, been around sense the 60s ,,here is a link,,,,,,stay excited Gerty............Billeeeeeee

http://youtu.be/eScDfYzMEEw