We all need Mental Healing

I stumbled the other day on "How to be Free", by Joe Blow, a free eBook available on the Internet, written by someone with a history of mental illnesses. Yet, when you read his  book you cannot help being impressed by his spiritual insights. The author is certainly sane today, and judging by his messages of his book, perhaps a little saner than the average Joe. My hunch is that we are all in need of mental healing and that by bringing the problem out in the open, you may actually have a spiritual head-start vis-a-vis the fellow next door.

Jonathan Haidt, the author of "The Happiness Hypothesis" said that he sometimes entertains at boring dinner parties the thought of saying or doing something incredibly rude. And once the thought is out in the open, it takes him a lot of will-power to avoid any faux-pas. For me personally, I discovered that sometimes during presentations in front of large audience I sometimes think what would happen if I threw an object at the speaker. Immediately afterwards I put all physical objects out of range just to make sure that my auto-pilot doesn't suddenly take over.

Truth of the matter is we all have an alienated part inside of us that sometimes shows its ugly head. We see it rarely in action because we tend to do the right thing most of the time. Sometimes we are rescued by our social norms, but mostly by our giant heart. So if you see a brother or a sister act insanely, please understand that this could be you. And if you feel insane right now, at least you can appreciate that the part that needs healing is out in the open. Once you are willing to look fearlessly at this screaming spoilt child inside of you, mental healing is at least possible and with a few conscious steps in the right direction will probably be right around the corner.