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A Simple Remedy For Mental Distress

by Premasudha Janet Hobbs

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Our symptoms of mental illness and mental distress are actually signs of an expanding human consciousness. This is recognized by the East but in the West, the focus is on management of the symptoms. Here is a simple suggestion which can help the wounded psyche shift into more understanding and peace.

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This might sound too easy,

But I promise it can really help some people.

And that's if you're suffering from any kind of mental distress.

If you read about the lives of the saints,

Or maybe pick up a book by Carlos Castaneda about Shaman Don Juan,

Or pick up the Bhagavad Gita from India,

Which is translated obviously into English,

Or Amma's books,

Awakened Children books.

If you read these books,

You can tap into a transpersonal love that will help heal your confusion.

You know,

Really,

I feel mental illness is less a problem with the head.

It's more a war going on inside us at a cellular level.

And it's about,

It's basically fear or love.

Okay,

So basically we are in this big evolutionary shift,

And human beings have the possibility to become really expanded at this time.

So it is a place that's formerly been occupied by sages,

Or very few people,

Saints,

You know.

Like Francis of Assisi had stigmata on his hands from,

You know,

Praying,

From loving Christ so much that he kind of instinctively wanted to take on the burden of Christ.

So he got the same symptoms.

You see,

This is how powerful our minds are.

So if you use your mind to focus on these expanded people,

Not everybody has to give themselves stigmata,

You know.

A sage could just walk around feeling blissfully happy all the time and do enormous good.

But I'm just saying that we're so much more than we realize,

And that we're in this time of expansion where anybody really can become a sage.

Yeah,

It's like the universe is helping anybody who wants to walk around with an open heart,

Who wants to help in this world.

The universe is giving you so much support to move into this expanded outlook,

But we're more informed by the heart than the head because we're so dangerously lodged in the head in the West,

And that's why we're getting so much mental illness and mental distress.

It's not working for us.

So,

You know,

If you have these symptoms,

Just try these books.

Books about,

You know,

The saints.

Carlos Castaneda.

Any kind of book written by somebody who really is illuminated.

You know,

The Way of the Tao by Lao Tzu.

That's another really good one.

It will soothe your soul,

And then as you read it,

The understanding drips in.

You know,

Like having an IV tapped into a higher energy that just by reading it,

It gradually steers your psyche to have a higher vibration.

So,

You see,

In the East,

They see mental illness as a symptom of a spiritual expansion wanting to come,

But we in the West,

We just label it,

And then we try to manage it,

And sometimes the people who are helping us,

You know,

They might never have had a spiritual opening at all.

They might not even understand our experience,

And they might think that we were,

You know,

More off balance than we really are.

It's kind of like a one-eyed person diagnosing a two-eyed person as blind,

You know,

As lesser,

Just because they're seeing through two eyes rather than just one.

Like,

You know,

In the years to come,

You know,

When history looks back on the West,

It will really see this one-sidedness and how it's leading us to treat Mother Nature badly and finally it's threatening our sustainability.

But,

You see,

The answers are so simple so often.

In just reading these books,

Books pointing to an expansion will just help you seamlessly move into it.

Yeah.

It would be much better for your health than scrolling and filling your mind with,

You know,

Too many sad things.

Okay,

So,

You know,

This video comes from years and years of experience,

And it might sound sort of simple-minded to think that reading the stories of the saints or Carlos Castaneda,

The way of the Tao,

You know,

Could really help,

But they do.

Okay,

So experiment.

Okay,

Bless your hearts.

Meet your Teacher

Premasudha Janet HobbsNorth Vancouver, BC, Canada

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