Active individual mental engagement, understanding and managing mental problems, the
mind and mental existence from the inside through individual mental work and effort,
starts with a different view and understanding of the mind and mental existence. The mind
and mental existence are understood as the place where we consciously exist and act, where
we experience, become aware and must consider the conditions of existence and the world
around us.
The mind and
mental existence is where individually we are in charge and in control, and where we must
actively be engaged and take responsibility for what takes place and what we do. It is
where we make choices and decisions, where we define aims, goals and objectives, and where
we must consider, plan, organize and manage our behaviour and actions. The mind and mental
existence is where problems and difficulties, errors and mistakes have their roots and
beginnings and where answers and solutions must start. What takes place and what we do in
the mind and mental existence defines and governs how we manage and conduct ourselves, how
we connect, communicate and cooperate with each other, and how we relate and interact with
the world around us.
The focus of the approach is what takes place, and what we do and what we need to do, what
we must establish, develop and maintain in the mind and mental existence. The focus is not
repressed memories, the biological roots and foundation of the mind -- the neurological
structure and workings of the brain, our genetic make up or the evolutionary development
of human beings. The answers and solutions to mental problems lie in understanding and
managing the mind and mental existence from the inside, through active individual mental
engagement, individual mental work and effort. They do not lie in treatment from the
outside by experts and specialist through psychoanalysis, psychotherapy or psychiatric
medication.
The objective is
to deal with the conditions, demands and challenges of the mind and mental existence
before they develop into larger problems, difficulties and crises. The aim is to develop
individual independence in thought and understanding, in behaviour and actions, being
actively engaged in the mind and mental existence. This contrasts with the traditional
approach of relying on experts, specialists and medication, leading to dependence and
addiction. Active individual mental engagement involves understanding and managing the
role and responsibility in our mind, mental existence and mental development that by
nature are individually ours to understand and manage.
Active individual mental engagement deals with mental problems from the ground up and from
the inside out. Starting with individual experience and feelings of mental problems, which
are considered and addressed inside the mind and mental existence. Addressing them at
their roots, dealing with the causes and developments that lie behind them, not just
controlling their symptoms and consequences.
The approach involves establishing the necessary internal mental conditions before
engaging and dealing with external conditions, others and the world around us. Mentally
processing everything that enters the mind and awareness - experience, perceptions,
sensations, feelings, thoughts and ideas. Distinguishing between different experiences --
perceptions of the world around us, sensations about the conditions of our physical
existence, and feelings about the conditions of our mental existence and the state of our
mind. Considering and making sense of them, the conditions that lie behind them, and how
to deal with them. Ordering and arranging them according to their relevance, importance
and the order in which they need to be dealt with, and forming clear and detailed images
and pictures in the mind about them.
Establishing the necessary internal mental conditions involves establishing and
maintaining a sense of the self, a sense of order and stability, clarity and coherence,
certainty and security individually in the mind. Meeting our mental needs in necessary and
appropriate ways in the mind, through individual mental work and effort. Not meeting them
in material ways through the accumulation, possession, control and consumption of material
resources, goods and values, social positions, roles, functions, power and status. It
involves dealing with, responding and adjusting to change, changing conditions, demands
and challenges, in our own mental and physical existence and in the world around us, when
only a minimum in mental work, effort and adjustment are required and before they develop
into larger problems. In addition it requires developing, exercising and practicing our
mental faculties, our natural mental potential, individual natural mental powers and
abilities, necessary mental skills and practices, and engaging in the required mental work
and effort.
The approach of active individual mental engagement involves engaging in a process of
continuous conceptual and mental self-development and growth. Constantly reconsidering,
updating, correcting, expanding and improving, in light of change and changing conditions,
the understanding, the mental powers and abilities, mental skills and practices we
develop, on which we rely, and how we develop and use them. Reconsidering, updating,
correcting, expanding and improving the choices and decisions we make, and how we make
them, the aims, goals and objectives we pursue, and how we define them, the behaviour and
actions in which we engage, and how we plan, organize and manage them.
The approach involves making understanding and managing the mind and mental existence,
dealing with mental problems, demands and challenges part of daily life, daily work and
effort. It requires actively engaging, being in charge, in control and taking
responsibility for what takes place and what we do in the mind and mental existence. It
involves connecting and integrating mental and physical existence, behaviour and action,
work and effort into an interactive process. Always, in everything we do and engage in,
establishing first the necessary internal mental conditions before engaging and dealing
with external conditions, with others and the world around us.