Most people think the way to escape anxiety or depression is to do more: exercise, work hard, socialize, or change how they think. Activity can help, but there’s a deeper biological truth beneath it.Before the body can generate real happiness, it must first believe it is safe. 1. Two Systems in the Human Body Human … Continue reading Feeling Safe Comes Before Feeling Happy – The Biology of Healing
Mental Illness is NOT Emotional Illness – Here’s the Difference
In everyday language, mental health has become a catch-all for everything that hurts inside. Depression, anxiety, burnout, even heartbreak all get bundled under the phrase “mental illness.” But that phrase is misleading. It hides an important truth: thinking can be healthy while feeling is sick. We need two categories, not one. Mental illness and emotional … Continue reading Mental Illness is NOT Emotional Illness – Here’s the Difference
Feeling Good is Like Washing Your Hands: Emotional Health Is Not a Moral Issue
There are certain conditions in life which, if present long enough, will cause emotional pain in a human being—no matter how intelligent, spiritual, moral, or resilient that person is. Just as drinking poisoned water will cause illness regardless of who you are, so too will emotional suffering arise from specific, predictable environmental and physical conditions. … Continue reading Feeling Good is Like Washing Your Hands: Emotional Health Is Not a Moral Issue
THE TRUTH ABOUT EMOTIONAL PAIN LIKE DEPRESSION/ANXIETY
YOU WOULDNT GO INTO A HOSPITAL WARD OF MALARIA AND TOUCH EVERYTHING WITHOUT WASHING UR HANDS TO PROVE UR STRONGER THAN IT HAHAH THATS MADNESS. WHY ? CUZ U KNOW YOU ARE GOING TO GET SICK IF YOU DO THAT. BUT IF YOU WASH YOUR HANDS YOU WILL BE OK. SO TOO WITH EMOTIONAL PAIN … Continue reading THE TRUTH ABOUT EMOTIONAL PAIN LIKE DEPRESSION/ANXIETY
Emotional Pain Is Not a Moral Test: A New Science of Healing
Introduction: For thousands of years, humanity has misunderstood pain.We once thought fevers were signs of sin.We believed earthquakes were divine punishments.We fasted, prayed, repented, and endured.Then came medicine. Science. Cause and effect. Healing. But in one domain, the ancient error still survives:Emotional pain. We are still told that if we feel sad, broken, or numb … Continue reading Emotional Pain Is Not a Moral Test: A New Science of Healing
Emotional Science: A New and Necessary Field in Human Medicine
Introduction: For centuries, humanity has misunderstood the nature of emotional suffering. Depression, anxiety, grief, despair—these have all been lumped under the vague and often misleading term “mental illness,” as if they are disorders of thought, logic, or cognition. But they are not. Emotional states are not delusions. Emotional pain is not a thought error. Emotional … Continue reading Emotional Science: A New and Necessary Field in Human Medicine
Existence Is NOT Suffering: The Truth About Life
Introduction For thousands of years, many traditions—especially within certain spiritual and religious systems—have claimed that existence is inherently suffering. This idea, often repeated in slogans such as “Life is pain” or “Existence is suffering”, has shaped countless minds and lives, becoming a cornerstone of some philosophies and spiritual practices. But is it actually true? This … Continue reading Existence Is NOT Suffering: The Truth About Life
Some advice on love
As ur big brother let me give u some advice please: someone who loves you won't lie to you. they will tell you the truth, even in situations where it will make them look bad. they will not lie to you about bad things they've done or want to do. but will be honest about … Continue reading Some advice on love
Comforting Thoughts on Death
Death terrifies because it confronts us with the unknown. Will we cease entirely, dissolve into nothing? Will we recycle into new forms, or step into a world beyond this one? The mind cannot map it, and so it trembles. Yet there are reasons for comfort. In nature, nothing is lost. Matter decays but becomes soil; … Continue reading Comforting Thoughts on Death
A Choice of Soil: How A Person Becomes Good Or Evil
Every human life, at its root, is lived in one of two soils. These are not mere habits, nor passing moods, but fundamental stances toward existence: the soil of good, and the soil of evil. Upon this choice rests everything. From this ground, each life grows into its specific form—some into towering oaks of virtue, … Continue reading A Choice of Soil: How A Person Becomes Good Or Evil
