Guest guest Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Dear Marc, Sat Nam. We can be bearers of a healty madness in the world when we do the shift.Accept your "negative": anger, violence, sadness,ecc. Observe Yourself and permit without react. Stay and breathe. And listen inside your body what happens. Perhaps something like Bioenergetica or Biosintesi psicotherapy can help you to integrate your emotion,mind and body. If you take a stop simply pray.And ask to heaven an help to rest in the light. The universe know .Be in faith. Where you came from? Blessing Kartapurkh Kaur -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Mark McDaniel <kundaleaner A: kundaliniyoga kundalini yoga Data: domenica 9 febbraio 2003 15.59 Oggetto: Help for mental illness? > >Sat Nam! > >In the summer of 2000 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. This diagnosis was changed to schizoaffective disorder later that year. My illness is characterized by "hallucinations/ delusional thinking" ( I hear voices, which I have finally realized are just thoughts my subconscious is having. Similarly, when there is "background conversation," such as in a restaurant or when a television is on in the next room, my mind translates things other people are thinking into things that relate to the thoughts I am having at that time. Psychiatrists call this "referential thinking," but it sounds to me a lot like what they called "Self-Referral" or "Unity consciousness" at Maharishi University of Management. I know I have experienced Unity consciousness in this way, at a restaurant once, but because it was a mostly new experience for me, it was a little fuzzy, unclear. Usually, if I pay much attention to the voices I end up confused, immobilized, anxious, or just downright scared. > I take medication for >this that helps, but I still have to be vigilant, and I now feel like I am ignoring parts of myself that maybe I should be paying more attention to. Although a lot of it is worrisome, so maybe I am better off ignoring it. But that one Unity experience was so pleasant, and I feel like I am destined to live that way all the time (in Unity-- eventually.) In the meantime, I think I have finally found some KY that helps some (especially with anxiety, which I often have for no apparent reason, and which I also take medication for. My counselor thinks a lot of my anxiety may come from repressed anger that I have bottled up since childhood, which makes sense to me, and an Ayurvedic doctor told me the root of my problems was a severe imbalance in my Pitta dosha.) I am doing the Basic Breath Series and Sat Kriya, because both say they strengthen the nervous system (psychiatrists call my condition a brain disorder), and also because Sat Kriya says it helps maladjusted people. I am also do >ing Sitali Pranayam to h >elp cool Pitta dosha. I have been doing these three consistently for just four days now, and I am already noticing a difference. > >My illness also includes depression, for which I take medication. I tried the Easy Yoga for depression at 3ho.org, but it made me feel worse. I have tried the meditation given on the online training course, and five minutes seems to help some, but three minutes didn't seem to do anything for me, and I find that meditation difficult to do. I have also tried the Smiling Buddha or Jesus Kriya for eleven minutes, which helps quite a bit (it always puts a smile on my face while I am doing it,) but it tends to fade after a little while. The time I did it twice in one day, morning and afternoon, I had a big outburst of anger (pitta aggravation) in the evening. I also suffer from the occasional manic episode, which is the opposite of depression, and is characterized by elation which turns to anger, or just anger. I also take medication to get to sleep at night, which is the same medication I take for anxiety. > >I am pleased with the KY I am doing right now, but since I am still unable to work, I have some more time and am considering doing more. But I am concerned that I might overdo it, since it has been suggested by two people in the Transcendental Meditation movement that I might be evolving too fast. (I matriculated to MUM just a little over a year after I learned TM, and learned the TM-Sidhi program including yogic flying at the end of my first semester, while I was learning Sanskrit. The next semester I went on two tours giving yogic flying demonstrations, but I only practice a little TM these days with my KY, since any more of that stuff aggravates my condition. I do however try to do ten minutes of Maharishi Yoga Asanas twice a day, which I think must be considered Ashtanga Yoga-- they call them "light yoga postures" in the TM movement. I am considering replacing this with KY, but the KY I have come across so far is much more vigorous, so they're not really the same type of thin >g even.) > >So, I am considering adding Smiling Buddha, and/or Ra Ma Da Sa meditation, but I definitely need something physical, whether it be KY, the Maharishi stuff, or just regular exercise. I have seen the Easy Yoga for strengthening the nervous system at 3ho.org, but have not tried it since part of it involves singing along to a tape I don't yet have, and also since it says "To Activate the Central Nervous System and Stimulate the Pituitary Gland," and I'm not sure whether that would be helpful or harmful for me. > >Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. > >Love, Peace, and Light to you all, > >Mark > > > > > > Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now > > > > > >"OUR DESTINY IS TO BE HAPPY" > - Yogi Bhajan > >You can UNSUBSCRIBE from this list at the Groups Member Center (My Groups), or send mail to >Kundaliniyoga >NO UNSUBSCRIBE REQUESTS TO THE LIST PLEASE! >WEB SITE: kundalini yoga > >KUNDALINI YOGA ON-LINE TRAINING. Details from >kundalini yogaclasses.html > >Sponsored by YOGA TECHNOLOGY - Practical Books & Videos on Kundalini Yoga & Meditation. 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Guest guest Posted February 10, 2003 Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 Dear Kartapurkh Kaur and all,Sat Nam Your words are wonderful and clear and warm, thank you so much. I have a question, that goes into this theme and I know we¹ve discussed it a few month ago, but now I¹m Œat The point¹: I¹ll offer KY in a jail and suddenly realized that many people there might be on drugs of all different kind; I know KY should not be done when you have taken drugs, so what? Has anyone experiences going in that directions? I would be pleased for any advice. Love and Light Esther Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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