The question is how to get started? What are the steps, details and specifics of
dealing with mental problems and difficulties through active individual mental engagement,
individual mental work and effort? How to understand and manage the mind and mental
existence from the inside? How to improve mental conditions and states of mind? What are
the steps, details and specifics to establish and maintain mental order and stability,
clarity of mind and understanding, a sense of certainty, security and confidence?
The previous section, Answers and Solutions, discussed in general the answers and
solutions to mental problems, problems and difficulties understanding and managing the
mind and mental existence. The following sections discuss the details, specifics and steps
of dealing with mental problems, understanding and managing the mind and mental existence
from the inside, through active mental engagement, individual mental work and effort.
Dealing with mental problems and difficulties from the inside, through active
individual mental engagement, individual mental work and effort, is discussed in a number
of successive steps; considering and dealing with daily mental problems and difficulties, Consider Daily Mental Problems;
considering and understanding past mental problems and difficulties and how one has dealt
with them, Consider Past Mental Problems;
establishing a clear picture of the mind and mental existence, Establish a Picture of the Mind; and, daily
managing the mind and mental existence, dealing with mental conditions, demands and
challenges before they develop into larger problems and difficulties, Daily
Managing the Mind.
Consider Daily Mental Problems,
discusses a set of steps, exercises and practices dealing with daily mental problems and
difficulties. It involves writing down and considering daily experiences and feelings of
mental problems - mental disorder, instability, doubt, confusion, uncertainty and
insecurity, feelings of fear, stress, anxiety, frustration and depression. Putting them on
paper, we get a better view of them. On paper, issues, experiences and feelings, demands
and challenges, problems and difficulties are less elusive and fleeting. They can more
easily be confronted and dealt with. We can see and understand them more clearly when on
paper in front of us, consider what lies behind them, and how to deal with it.
Consider Past Mental Problems,
discusses the steps, exercises and practices of considering and understanding past mental
problems, their causes, and how one has dealt with them. It involves considering and
writing down past mental problems and how one has dealt with them. The purpose is to
establish a clear picture and understanding of past mental problems and difficulties,
demands and challenges and how one has dealt with them. It is to establish a clear
picture, clarity of mind and understanding about mental habits, routines and practices one
has developed, why and how one developed them. It is to establish a clear picture, clarity
of mind and understanding how in one's mental self-development one got to where one finds
oneself today and the mental problems, difficulties, demands and challenges one faces.
Establish a Picture of the Mind,
sets out the steps, exercises and practices to establish a clear picture and understanding
of the mind, mental existence and mental development -- nature, conditions, needs, demands
and challenges, our role and responsibility in them, how to understand and manage them.
The purpose is to establish the conceptual foundation and framework of understanding
within which to understand and manage the mind and mental existence, what takes place and
what we do in them. The objective is to provide the conceptual foundation and framework of
understanding within which to consider and make sense of what enters the mind and
awareness -- experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings, thoughts and ideas, the
conditions that lie behind them, and how to deal with them.
The last section, Daily Managing the Mind,
discusses the steps, details and specifics of making understanding and managing the mind,
mental existence, mental development and growth part of daily life, work and effort. Daily
dealing with, understanding and managing the mind and mental existence. Dealing with
mental conditions, needs, demands and challenges, before they develop into larger problems
and crises, when only a minimum in mental work, effort and adjustment are
required. Engaging in a process of continuous, life-long conceptual and mental
self-development and growth. Integrating mental and physical behavior and action, work and
effort in to an integrated process. Establishing the necessary internal mental conditions,
clarity of mind and understanding, in everything one does and one engages in, before
engaging and dealing with external conditions, others and the world around us.