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Differences
Active individual mental engagement -- dealing with mental problems through individual
mental work and effort, understanding and managing the mind and mental existence from the
inside -- differs in a number of ways from the traditional approach of dealing with mental
problems, the mind and mental existence of psychology and psychiatry. It differs in view
and understanding, in focus and concentration, in answers and solutions, and in objectives
and results.
Briefly, mental problems, the mind and mental existence are understood from the inside as
the place where we consciously exist and act. They are not understood from the outside, as
traditionally is the case. The focus and concentration are individual experience and
feelings of mental problems and the mental conditions that lie behind them, not
problematic or abnormal individual behaviour and actions and the biological, neurological
or genetic structures that define and govern them. The answers and solutions are
understanding and managing the mind and mental existence from the inside through active
individual mental engagement, individual mental work and effort. Not as traditionally is
the case treating mental problems from the outside by experts and specialists,
psychologists, psychiatrists and counsellors, through psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and
psychiatric medication. The objective is development and change in how we understand and
manage the mind and mental existence, addressing underlying causes, conditions and
developments, not instant relief and measures controlling symptoms and consequences. The
objectives and results are individual conceptual and mental self-development and growth,
active individual mental engagement, individual mental work and effort, understanding and
managing the mind and mental existence from the inside, dealing with mental conditions,
demands and challenges, problems and difficulties before they develop into larger problems
and crises. Not relying on treatment by experts, specialists and medication leading
dependence and addiction. (For a more detailed discussion of the differences between
active individual mental engagement and the traditional approach of dealing with mental
problems read the sections below.)
View and Understanding
The mind, mental existence and mental problems are understood from the inside, not from
the outside, as traditionally is the case. They are understood from inside where we
consciously exist and act. The mind and mental existence are understood as more than
simply the place where we experience and cope with feelings and emotions, the response of
the nervous system to external conditions and influences, or the neurological structure
and workings of the brain. A clear distinction is made between the biological, genetic and
neurological roots and foundation of the mind and what takes place and what we do in the
mind and mental existence.
Mind
The mind and mental existence is where we experience, become aware and where we must
consider the conditions of existence and the world around us, and how to deal with them.
We are in charge and in control, and we must actively be engaged and take responsibility
for what takes place and what we do in the mind and mental existence. The mind 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. What takes place and what
we do in the mind defines and governs how we understand, manage and conduct ourselves
individually, how we connect, communicate and cooperate with each other, and how we relate
and interact with the world around us. The mind is where problems and difficulties, limits
and shortcomings, errors and mistakes in what we do and engage in, in behaviour and
actions have their roots and beginnings and where answers and solutions must start.
Mental Existence
Mental existence is what takes place and what we do in the mind. Experience, perceptions,
sensations and feelings that enter the mind and awareness, how we deal with, respond and
adjust to them, the thoughts and ideas we entertain, and the images, pictures and
conceptual structures we create in the mind. It includes the mental faculties, the natural
mental powers and abilities, mental skills and practices we develop, how we develop and
used them, the mental behaviour and actions, mental work and effort in which we engage. It
is where we must establish the necessary internal conditions before we engage and deal
with external conditions, with each other and the world around us.
Mental Development
Mental development is what we establish and develop in the mind and mental existence. It
includes the images, pictures and understanding, thoughts, ideas and notions we develop
and entertain in the mind, more properly referred to as conceptual development. Mental
development in addition consists of the development through exercise and practice of our
mental faculties, our natural mental potential, natural mental powers and abilities and
necessary mental skills and practices.
Experience, Perceptions, Sensations and Feelings
The experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings that enter our mind and awareness --
perceptions about the world around us, sensations about our own physical existence and
body, and feelings about the conditions of our mental existence and state of mind -- do
not on their own order and arrange themselves in meaningful ways. They do not fully, in
all their details impress themselves on our awareness, and they do not on their own form
clear and detailed images or pictures in the mind about the conditions that lie behind our
experience, and how to deal with them. They create conditions and feelings in the mind of
disorder and instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and insecurity about the
conditions of existence, what we face and how to deal with them. First impressions and
instant reactions in turn lead to feelings of unease, apprehension, discomfort, distress,
annoyance or irritation, about what we are confronted with and have to deal with in the
mind.
Feelings and Emotions
Feelings and emotions, emotions being nothing more than intense feelings, are our
experience of the conditions of our mental existence and state of mind. They are
indicators that alert us to what we are confronted with and what we need to do in the mind
to establish the necessary internal mental conditions. That is, ordering and arranging
what enters the mind and awareness. Considering and making sense of our experience, the
perceptions, sensations, feelings, thoughts and ideas that enter the mind and awareness,
the conditions that lie behind them, and how to deal with them. Establishing a sense of
order and stability, clarity of mind and understanding, a sense of certainty, security and
confidence in the mind, about the conditions of existence and the world around us and how
to deal with them, and how to deal with them before acting, before engaging and dealing
with the world around us. Feelings and emotions are indicators about mental conditions and
states of mind that we must deal with. They are not something only to be endured, or
enjoyed.
Mental Behaviour and Action
In considering behaviour and action, we need to distinguish and differentiate between
mental and physical behaviour and action. We also need to differentiate between behaviour
on the one hand, and action on the other. Behaviour is how we respond to what we face and
what we are confronted with -- conditions, demands and challenges, change and changing
conditions. Action is what we do, the steps we take in dealing with them.
Mental behaviour and action are how we respond and deal with what enters the mind and
awareness -- experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings, thoughts and ideas, and the
mental conditions and states of mind, they create. The steps we take and the mental work
and effort in which we engage. Physical behaviour and action are how we respond to the
conditions, demands and challenges, change and changing conditions of our own physical
existence and the world around us, the physical steps we take, the physical work and
effort in which we engage.
Mental behaviour and action are governed by the choices and decisions we make about how to
deal with the conditions, needs, demands and challenges of the mind and mental existence.
They are defined and governed by the decisions we make about how to deal with, respond and
adjust to what enters the mind and awareness, experience, perceptions, sensations,
feelings, thoughts and ideas, the demands they make on us and the challenges they pose.
Physical behaviour and action, on the other hand, are governed by what takes place and
what we do in the mind and mental existence. They are governed by our mental behaviour and
action. It is in the mind and mental existence where we experience, become aware and must
consider the conditions, demands and challenges of existence, our own mental and physical
existence and the world around us. It is also in the mind and mental existence where we
must consider, decide, plan and organize how to deal with them. Physical behaviour and
action are defined and governed by the sense we make of our experience, the conditions of
existence that lie behind them and how to deal with them. They are defined and governed by
what we do in the mind, the choices and decisions we make, the goals and objectives we
define, the behaviour and actions we consider and how we plan, organize and manage them.
Nature of Mental Problems
Mental problems in their essence are difficulties understanding and managing the mind and
mental existence, difficulties understanding and managing our role and responsibility in
the mind and mental existence. Understanding and managing what takes place, what we do,
and what we need to do, what we must establish, develop and maintain in the mind and
mental existence. Considering and making sense of what enters the mind and awareness,
experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings, the conditions that lie behind them and
how to deal with them. They are difficulties establishing and maintaining the necessary
internal mental conditions, meeting mental needs in necessary ways, and developing,
exercising and practicing our mental faculties.
Causes behind Mental Problem
The difficulties behind mental problems lie in the first instance in the nature of the
mind and mental existence, our role and responsibility in them and how to manage them.
They also lie in what we do and what we fail to do in the mind and mental existence.
Operating at the level of feelings and emotions, not from clarity of mind and
understanding, failing to establish and maintain the necessary internal mental conditions,
clarity of mind and understanding. The difficulties lie in failing to do our mental
homework, failing to engage in the required mental work and invest the necessary time and
effort. Establish the necessary understanding, and develop, exercise and practice the
required mental faculties, our natural mental potential, mental powers and abilities,
mental skills and practices. In turn, the result of lacking of the necessary education and
training.
Intangible, Immaterial, Invisible and Elusive Nature of Mind and
Mental Existence
The mind and mental existence due to their immaterial, intangible, invisible and elusive
nature are not easily understood and dealt with. They are not self-evident and obvious.
The conditions, needs, demands and challenges, what takes place, what we do and need to do
in the mind and mental existence are not self-evident or obvious. They are not of a
physical-material nature. The experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings that enter
the mind are fleeting and elusive. They do not on their own, impress themselves fully on
our awareness, they do not order and arrange themselves and they do not form clear
pictures in the mind about the conditions that lie behind them and how to deal with them
before they disappear into memory.
Moreover, our experience fragment a connected and interacting reality and world around us
into separate and disconnected perceptions, sensations and feelings, creating disorder and
instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and insecurity in the mind. Our first
impressions in turn lead to feelings of unease, apprehension, discomfort, distress,
annoyance or irritation, which if not dealt with lead to more serious feelings of worry,
fear, stress, anxiety, frustration and depression. Our mental needs and how to meet them
is not as easily understood as understanding and meeting our physical needs. In addition,
our natural mental faculties, mental powers and abilities are not as self-evident as our
physical faculties. It is not self-evident and obvious how to develop and use them.
Operating at Level of Feelings and Emotions
Difficulties understanding and managing the mind and mental existence also result from
operating at the level of feelings, emotions, first impressions and instant reactions,
instead of operating from clarity of mind and understanding. Failing to consider and make
sense of the perceptions, sensations and feelings, thoughts and ideas, first impressions
and instant reactions that enter the mind and awareness, the conditions that lie behind
them, and how to deal with them. The difficulties arise from not being guided and directed
in behaviour and action by clarity of mind and understanding about what takes place and
what enters the mind and awareness. Behaviour and action not being informed, guided and
directed by clarity of mind and understanding about the conditions of existence, our own
mental and physical existence and the world around us that lie behind our experience, and
how to deal with them. Acting instead on how we feel about our experience and the
conditions that lie behind them, the demands they make and the challenges they pose to the
established mental conditions and state of mind.
Difficulties understanding and managing the mind and mental existence also result from
operating at the socio-cultural level. Substituting established beliefs, views, values,
conventions and practices for clarity of mind and understanding about our experience, the
conditions that lie behind them and how to deal with them. We run into problems,
experiencing mental problems and difficulties when external guides and directions,
established beliefs, views, values and conventions change, become unclear, unacceptable,
or we are no longer able to follow them.
Feelings and Emotions not Guides to Action
The problem of operating at the level of feelings and emotions is they are not guides to
action. Feelings and emotions cannot tell us how to act. They cannot guide or direct our
behaviour and actions. Feelings are indicators that alert us to what enters the mind, and
what we must deal with before we act, before engaging and dealing with the world around
us. They do not tell us how to deal with what enters the mind and we must deal with.
Acting on feelings and emotions leads to reacting, acting in reactive and defensive ways.
When acting on feelings and emotions we act on, and we act out how we feel about the
conditions, demands and challenges of existence, the world around us. We do not act on
clarity of mind and understanding about them and how to deal with them. We act in reactive
and defensive ways, acting without focus, purpose or direction, without clear guides to
behaviour and action.
Failing to Engage in Necessary Mental Work and Effort
Difficulties understanding and managing the mind and mental existence lie in failing to do
our mental homework, failing to engage in the necessary mental work and effort, failing to
manage the role and responsibility in the mind and mental existence that by nature are
individually ours to understand and manage. It tends to be the result of lacking the
necessary conceptual foundation and mental capacity, the necessary understanding and
required mental powers and abilities, mental skills and practices. In turn, the result of
lacking the necessary education and training. The consequences of how traditionally we
view and understand the mind and mental existence, what takes place, and what we do in the
mind and mental existence.
Not Psychological, Biological, Genetic or Neurological Problems
Mental problems, difficulties understanding and managing the mind and mental existence are
not psychological, biological, genetic or neurological ailments, illnesses or malfunctions
as suggested by the traditional approach of psychology, psychiatry and the 'sciences of
the mind' -- cognitive science, neuroscience, behavioral genetics and evolutionary
psychology. They are difficulties understanding and managing our role and responsibility
in the mind and mental existence. Although the mind and mental existence are rooted in our
physical-biological existence, what we do or fail to do in the mind and mental existence,
the choices and decisions we make are not defined and governed by our biological, genetic
or neurological make up. We are not preconditioned by nature, by our biological, genetic
or neurological make up to behave and act in necessary and appropriate ways.
To understand mental problems, difficulties understanding and managing the mind and mental
existence we need to distinguish and differentiate between the physical-biological roots
and foundation of the mind and mental existence on the one hand, and what takes place,
what enters and what we do in the mind and mental existence, on the other. In considering
the physical-biological roots and foundation of the mind and mental existence we need to
distinguish and differentiate between them in general, and the physical-biological systems
and processes, the sense organs and the nervous system, through which we experience and
become aware in the mind of the conditions of existence and the world around us. The
systems and processes that translate what takes place and what we do in the mind and
mental existence in to physical actions, the nervous system and the muscular system. We
also need to distinguish and differentiate between the neurological roots and foundation
of our mental faculties, and the neurological developments that result from developing,
exercising and practicing our mental faculties, our natural mental powers and abilities,
mental skills and practices, and engaging in the required mental work and effort.
Physical-Biological Limits, Ailments, Malfunctions
Within this context, limits, due to ailment, illness, malfunction or disease, in sense
organs or nervous system may influence or limit sensory inputs or experiential information
that enters the mind and awareness. Limits in the physical-biological systems and
processes that translate what takes place in the mind and mental existence, mental
behaviour and actions into physical actions, the nervous system or muscular system, may
limit our ability to act out choices, decisions, aims, goals or objectives, our planning
and organizing. Limits in the neurological foundation may limit our mental faculties, our
natural mental potential. Limits in neurological development, on the other hand, are the
result of failing to develop, exercise and practice our mental faculties, mental powers
and abilities, whatever their limits may be.
However, limits, whether due to ailment, illness, malfunction, disease or accident, in
either the physical-biological foundation, systems or processes do not explain or govern
what we do in the mind and mental existence, the mental behaviour and actions in which we
engage, the mental work and effort we invest. They do not explain or govern what, within
the physical-biological limits, we do in the mind, whether we develop and exercise our
mental faculties to their limits, and how and for what purpose we use them. They do not
explain or govern the effort we make to develop, exercise and practice our mental
faculties, whatever their limits. What we do in the mind and mental existence, the mental
behaviour and actions in which we engage, the mental work and effort we invest are defined
and governed by the choices and decisions we make.
Mental Problems not Abnormal Mental Conditions or Mental Illness
Mental problems moreover are not the result of traumatic events or experiences, or
repressed desires or dreams hidden in the unconscious interfering with the conscious mind.
Mental problems are not abnormal mental conditions from otherwise naturally, normal
ordered and stable mental conditions and states of mind. What enters the mind and
awareness, our experience, perceptions, sensations, feelings, thoughts and ideas, as
mentioned before, create in the mind a sense of disorder, instability, doubt, confusion,
uncertainty and insecurity. They fragment reality, the conditions of existence and the
world around us, and they do not fully impress themselves on our awareness. They do not on
their own order and arrange themselves in meaningful ways, and they do not form clear and
detailed pictures and images in the mind about the conditions of existence, our own mental
and physical existence and development and the world around us, and how to deal with them.
It is our role and responsibility to consider and make sense of our experience, starting
with the self-evident and obvious, with what enters our awareness, to uncover and become
aware of the hidden, less self-evident and obvious, consider the conditions that lie
behind them and how to deal with them.
Mental problems are not a question of mental illness. They are difficulties in the mind
resulting from failing to understand and manage the conditions, demands and challenges of
the mind and mental existence, failing to understand and manage our role and
responsibility in the mind and mental existence. Mental problems are not difficulties
dealing or coping with feelings and emotions. They are the result of failing to deal with
the conditions that lie behind feelings and emotions, conditions that are created by what
enters our mind and awareness, experience, perceptions and feelings, thoughts and ideas,
which we must deal with and address. Feelings and emotions are our experience of the
mental conditions created by what enters the mind and awareness. They are indicators about
what in the mind we are confronted with, what we must deal with and address, the actions
we must take and the mental work and effort in which we must engage.
View and Understanding of Psychology and Psychiatry
The traditional approach of psychology and psychiatry operates with a different and more
limited view and understanding of the mind and mental existence. It does not clearly
differentiate between the physical-biological roots and foundation of the mind and mental
existence, and what takes place in them. Psychology and psychiatry lack a clear and
detailed understanding of what takes place and what we do in the mind and mental
existence, our natural role and responsibility understanding and managing them. They fail
to understand the mind and mental existence from the inside, mental conditions, needs,
demands and challenges, what takes place, what we do and what we need to do, establish,
develop and maintain in the mind and mental existence. The mind and mental existence are
understood from the outside, through observing, deducing and concluding from individual
physical behaviour and actions. The mind is understood only as the place where we
experience and cope with feelings and emotions, the response of the nervous system to
external conditions and influences.
Individual physical behaviour and actions in psychology and psychiatry are not seen to be
governed by what we do in the mind and mental existence, by our mental behaviour and
actions. They are understood to be governed by the brain, which is seen to translate
external inputs into action outputs. Our mental behaviour, how in the mind we cope with
feelings and emotions, is understood to affect our actions, interfering with the
translating in the brain of external input into action output. Mental problems,
problematic mental behaviour, difficulties coping with feelings and emotions are
understood in terms of mental disorders or illness, which are seen to be rooted in the
unconscious, repressed experiences, dreams or desires, the neurological structure and
working of the brain, or in our genetic make-up.
Focus and Concentration
The focus and concentration of Active Individual Mental Engagement are individual
experience and feelings of mental problems, not problematic outward behaviour and action.
The focal points are problematic mental conditions and states of mind, and the conditions
and developments that lie behind them. The emphasis is dealing with the nature and causes
of mental problems, the conditions, demands and challenges of the mind and mental
existence, and how to deal with them, not treating symptoms, results and consequences.
The focus and concentration are what takes place and what we do in the mind and mental
existence, not the physical-biological roots, foundation, systems or processes behind the
mind and mental existence. Mental problems -- difficulties understanding and managing the
mind and mental existence -- lie in what takes place and what we do in the mind and mental
existence. They lie in how we understand and manage the role and responsibility in the
mind and mental existence that by nature are individually ours to understand and manage.
They do not lie in the physical-biological foundation, systems or processes behind the
mind and mental existence, or mental processes that lie beyond our control.
The focus and concentration are active individual mental engagement, individual mental
work and effort, not treatment by experts and specialists. The emphasis is addressing
mental problems and difficulties from the inside through individual mental work and
effort, not dealing with them through treatment from the outside. It involves establishing
the necessary internal mental conditions, addressing and correcting failings, errors and
mistakes understanding and managing what takes place, what we do and need to do, what we
must establish, develop and maintain in the mind and mental existence. It requires
developing, exercising and practicing individual mental faculties, mental powers and
abilities, mental skills and practices, and engaging in the required mental work and
effort, not treatment through psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and psychiatric medication.
Experience, feelings, mental problems and the conditions that lie behind them are
understood and managed individually from within the mind and mental existence. They are
not understood and treated from the outside by experts and specialists through
considering, deducing and concluding from outward behaviour and actions about problems,
illness or malfunctions of the physical-biological roots, foundation, systems or processes
behind the mind and mental existence. Understanding the physical-biological roots,
foundation, systems and processes does not provide us with an understanding of what takes
place and what we do in the mind and mental existence, how to deal with or manage them. It
does not give as an understanding of where, why or how we fall short of our role and
responsibility in the mind and mental existence, errors or mistakes we make, what we fail
to establish, develop or maintain in the mind and mental existence, or how to correct
them.
Answers and Solutions
The answers and solutions to mental problems -- problematic mental conditions, states of
mind and difficulties dealing with them -- lie in understanding and addressing the
underlying causes and developments. They do not lie in addressing or controlling symptoms,
results and consequences. The answers and solutions require understanding and managing the
mind and mental existence, what takes place, what we do and what we need to do from the
inside. They do not lie, as is the case with psychology and psychiatry, in treatment from
the outside by experts and specialists through psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and
psychiatric medication. Mental problems are addressed through individual mental work and
effort understanding and managing the mind, mental existence and mental development from
the inside. It involves establishing and maintaining the necessary internal mental
conditions through individual mental work and effort.
Mental problems are addressed where they exist and where they are experienced, in the mind
and mental existence. They are not addressed at the level of symptoms, results and
consequences, the level of individual outward behaviour and actions, or at the level of
the physical-biological roots, foundation, systems or processes that lie behind the mind
and mental existence. Mental problems are managed and dealt with from within the mind
through active engagement by the individual who experiences and feels them. They are not
treated from the outside by experts, specialists or through medication, as is the case
with the traditional approach of psychology and psychiatry. Mental problems moreover are
addressed in a comprehensive way, in a differentiated, but integrated, connected and
related way, addressing the causes that lie behind all mental problems and difficulties.
Mental problems are not dealt with separately, in isolation from one another as if they
were the result of different and unrelated causes.
The answers and solutions require dealing with the causes, the conditions and developments
that lie behind mental problems and difficulties -- the conditions, demands and challenges
of the mind and mental existence. It involves dealing with the conditions that lie behind
experience and feelings of disorder and instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and
insecurity. It requires moving beyond first impressions and instant reactions that lead to
feelings of worry, fear, stress, anxiety, frustration and depression. It involves
considering, making sense, establishing clarity of mind and understanding of what enters
the mind and awareness, the conditions that lie behind them, and how to deal with them. In
addition, controlling, correcting and changing inappropriate, harmful and
counterproductive beliefs and understanding, mental behaviour, actions, habits, routines
and practices.
The answers and solutions require understanding and managing what takes place, what we do
and what we need to do, what we must establish, develop and maintain in the mind and
mental existence. It involves ordering and arranging, considering and making sense of what
enters the mind and awareness in experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings,
thoughts and ideas, the conditions that lie behind them, and how to deal with them. It
requires understanding and meeting our mental needs in the mind, through mental work and
effort, not in material ways. Moreover, it requires developing, exercising and practicing
our mental faculties, our natural mental potential, natural mental powers and abilities,
necessary mental skills and practices.
The answers and solutions require engaging in a process of continuous, life-long mental
self-development and growth. Dealing with, responding and adjusting to change and changing
conditions when only a minimum in mental work, effort and adjustment are required and
before they develop into larger problems. Constantly reconsidering, updating, correcting,
changing and improving in light of change and changing conditions, the understanding, the
mental powers and abilities, the mental skills and practices, the mental work and effort
we develop, on which we rely, how we develop and use them. Reconsidering, updating,
correcting, changing 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, how we plan, organize and manage them.
The answers and solutions require making understanding and managing the mind and mental
existence part of daily life, daily work and effort. It involves connecting and
integrating mental and physical existence, behaviour and action, work and effort into an
interactive process. Establishing first in everything we do and we engage in, the
necessary internal mental conditions before we act, before engaging in and dealing with
external conditions and the world around us.
Objectives and Results
The objectives of Active Individual Mental Engagement dealing with mental problems are
long-term development and change addressing the causes, underlying conditions and
developments, not instant relief, short and medium-term measures dealing with symptoms and
consequences. The results are individual independence, being actively engaged, in charge,
in control and taking responsibility for understanding and managing the mind and mental
existence, not depending on outside experts and specialists, medications or drugs.
The aim is to develop the conceptual foundation and mental capacity required to understand
and manage the mind and mental existence individually from the inside, as reflected in
individual experience. Developing a clear and detailed picture of the mind and mental
existence within which to make sense of what takes place and what we do in the mind.
Developing the mental faculties, the natural mental potential, individual mental powers
and abilities, necessary mental skills and practices, and engage in the required mental
work and effort to understand and manage the role and responsibility in the mind and
mental existence that by nature are individually ours to understand and manage. To
consider and makes sense of the experience, perceptions, sensations, feelings, thoughts
and ideas that enter the mind and awareness, the conditions that lie behind them and how
to deal with them. The objective is to develop individually the conceptual foundation and
the mental capacity required to establish the necessary internal mental conditions in
everything we do and we engage in, before acting, before engaging and dealing with
external conditions and the world around us.
The objective is to develop and engage in a process of continuous conceptual and mental
self-development and growth. Dealing with, responding and adjusting to change and changing
conditions, when only a minimum in mental work, effort and adjustment are required, and
before they develop into larger problems and difficulties. Constantly reconsidering,
updating, correcting and improving, in light of change and changing conditions, the
understanding, the mental powers and abilities, mental skills and practices, mental work
and effort, we develop, on which we rely, and how we develop and use them. Reconsidering,
updating, correcting and improving the choices and decisions we make, and how we make
them, the aims, goals and objectives we pursue and how we decide on them, the behaviour
and action in which we engage and how we plan, organize and manage them.
The aim is to make understanding and managing the mind and mental existence, dealing with
mental problems, demands and challenges part of daily life, daily work and effort.
Connecting and integrating mental and physical existence, behaviour and action, work and
effort into an interactive process, instead of dealing with them separately, in a
disconnected way. Always establish first the necessary internal mental conditions, clarity
of mind and understanding, before acting in the world around us.
The objective is to prevent larger, chronic, persisting and growing mental problems from
developing instead of treating them after they have developed. Prevent initial mental
conditions of disorder and instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and insecurity
from developing into larger mental problems, difficulties and crises. Prevent first
impressions and instant reactions from developing into feelings of fear, stress, anxiety,
frustration and depression.
The difference between the two approaches dealing with mental problems and difficulties is
short-term pain for long-term gain, in the case of Active Individual Mental Engagement,
and instant relief and short-term gain at the expense of long-term mental problems, in the
case of the traditional approach of psychology and psychiatry.
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