Carl Jung once said, "There's no coming to consciousness without pain." It's a statement that has all the earmarks of a profound truth, especially in the way it's denied.
So many people want to feel better than they do. They go to doctors who will give them pills to end their pain, psychotherapists who will only tell them what they want to hear, and bars where they can pretend to be anyone but themselves.
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Rebooting the Mind
The other day I was leading a group for multiple DWI offenders. One of them, a middle-aged man who was particularly angered by the bracelet he was being forced to wear on his ankle, the legal routines that filled his life, and the fact that he had to go to two A.A. meetings a week interrupted the group process with a rant on how he was being brainwashed.
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Lately, I've been noticing that one of the things my clients suffer from is a pervasive lack of rest. They come down with colds and go to work. They never give themselves a minute to convalesce. They don't get enough sleep and can't find the time to catch up. Some work full time and go to school and run a home, others work two or three jobs, others take care of families and have barely two seconds to rub together. There is simply no downtime whatsoever. No one takes a break–not even here in New Mexico where siestas used to be a way of life, no one stops working, no one stops shopping.
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Swine and The Flu:
What to Fear.
According to the latest sources, IT has finally arrived–the millenial version of the Spanish Flu that wiped out a significant portion of the world's population. In the last week, pigs have been sweeping the media. There are pictures and videos and stories of pigs on every major webpage. We see them in their pens, hanging from hooks, and subtly displayed next to frantic Mexicans in masks.
I run a group for DWI Offenders. The other day one of the members complained vociferously that he felt brainwashed by AA and that he wouldn't be taken "hostage" by its philosophy. I turned to look at him directly and asked straight out, "And what do you think you've been up till now?"
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