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Nature and Causes
Mental problems in their essence are difficulties understanding and managing the mind
and mental existence. They are difficulties understanding and managing the role and
responsibility in the mind and mental existence that by nature are individually ours to
understand and manage. Mental problems are not abnormal mental conditions, the result of
psychological, biological, neurological or genetic illness or disease. They are not
deviations from a naturally ordered and stable mind that has been upset or disturbed by
external influences, traumatic experience or biological, genetic or neurological
disorders.
Mental Problems
Mental problems are difficulties understanding and managing what takes place and what we
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. Mental problems are difficulties meeting our mental needs in necessary ways,
and developing, exercising and practicing our mental faculties. They are difficulties
establishing and maintaining the necessary internal mental conditions, before engaging and
dealing with external conditions, others and the world around us.
Operating at Level of Feelings
Mental problems and difficulties are the result of operating at the level of feelings and
emotions, instead of operating from clarity of mind and understanding. That is, operating
internally in the mind at the level of feelings, emotions, first impressions and instant
reactions. While operating externally, in interacting and dealing with the world around
us, at the level of externally defined guides and directions, established beliefs, views,
values and conventions.
Not Operating from Clarity of Mind and Understanding
Mental problems and difficulties lie in not acting, both internally in the mind and
externally in the world around us on clarity of mind and understanding. Not being guided
and directed in our behaviour and actions by clarity of mind and understanding about what
takes place and what enters the mind and awareness, our experience, perceptions,
sensations and feelings. Behaviour and actions are not informed and governed 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. Instead, we act in the mind on how we feel about our experience and the conditions
that lie behind them. Externally, in the world around us we act on externally defined
socio-cultural instructions, guides and directions, established beliefs, views, values and
conventions about the conditions of existence, the world around us, and how to deal with
them.
We run into problems and difficulties, mental problems and difficulties when external
guides and directions, established beliefs, views, values and conventions change, become
unclear or unacceptable, when we are no longer able to follow them. We are left with
operating both internally and externally at the level of feelings, first impressions and
instant reactions. Operating internally in the mind at the level of feelings and emotions,
first impressions and instant reactions is no longer offset or compensated for by firm and
stable external instructions, guides and directions that govern our external behaviour and
actions.
Feelings and Emotions are not Guides to Action
The problem is feelings and emotions are no guides to action. They cannot tell us how to
act. Acting on feelings and emotions leads to reacting, acting in defensive ways. Feelings
are our experience of our mental conditions and state of mind. They are indicators or
warning signs that alert us about what we face and must deal with in the mind before
acting externally in the world around us. Operating at the level of feelings, we act in
reactive and defensive ways. We do not act from clarity of mind and understanding, we act
without focus, purpose or direction, without guides to behaviour and action.
Reasons for Acting on Feelings and Emotions
We act on feelings and emotions, first impressions and instant reactions because of the
intangible, immaterial, invisible and elusive nature of the mind and mental existence.
What takes place, what we do and need to do, what we must establish, develop and maintain
in the mind and mental existence is not self-evident and obvious. Experience, perceptions,
sensations and feelings that enter the mind do not fully impress themselves on our
awareness. They do not on their own order and arrange themselves, or form clear pictures
in the mind about the conditions that lie behind them and how to deal with them. Our
mental needs and how to meet them is not as self-evident and obvious as our physical
needs. Our mental faculties too are not self-evident and obvious, and they do not develop
on their own. They are only a natural potential, which we must develop before we can use
it.
Failing to Engage in the Required Mental Work and Effort
We act on feelings and emotions because we fail 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. Consider and make sense,
establish clarity of mind and understanding about what enters the mind and awareness,
experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings, the conditions that lie behind them, and
how to deal with them. Establish and maintain the necessary internal mental conditions
before acting, before engaging and dealing with external conditions and the world around
us. We fail to engage in the required mental work and effort because we lack the necessary
conceptual foundation and necessary mental capacity, the result of lacking the required
education and training, developing the necessary understanding, mental skills and
practices. In turn, which is the result of how traditionally and today we view and
understand the mind and mental existence, what takes place and what we do in the mind and
mental existence.
Mental Problems are not Abnormal, but Natural Mental Conditions
Mental problems, difficulties understanding and managing the mind and mental existence,
are not abnormal mental conditions, the results of psychological, biological, genetic of
neurological illness or disease. They are not deviations from a naturally ordered and
stable mind that has been upset or disturbed by traumatic external influences or by
biological, genetic or neurological genetic disorders. On the contrary, mental disorder
and instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and insecurity, feelings of disturbance,
unease, apprehension, discomfort, distress, annoyance or irritation are normal mental
conditions. They are conditions resulting from what enters the mind and awareness --
experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings, thoughts and ideas. They are mental
conditions that are for us individually to deal with and address. Addressing them is our
individual role and responsibility. It is what we must to do in the mind and mental
existence. It is our role and responsibility to establish clarity of mind and
understanding about the experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings, thoughts and
ideas that enter the mind and awareness, the conditions that lie behind them and how to
deal with them. We must individually establish and maintain the necessary internal mental
conditions, establish and maintain order and stability, clarity and coherence, certainty,
security and confidence in our mind.
Difference between Physical-Biological Roots and Foundation, and what Takes Place and
what we Do in the Mind
There is a difference between the biological roots and foundation and genetic-neurological
systems and processes behind the mind and mental existence, and what takes place, what we
do and what we need to do in the mind and mental existence. The biological roots and
foundation and neurological systems and processes behind the mind and mental existence do
not govern what we do in the mind. They do not define how we understand and manage the
role and responsibility in our mind and mental existence that by nature are individually
ours to understand and manage.
Mental Problems are not Problems or Difficulties in World Around Us
Mental problems also are not problems or difficulties in the world around us that we
experience in the mind. Neither do the causes lie externally beyond the mind. Mental
problems are difficulties considering and making sense of our experience, the conditions,
demands and challenges of existence that lie behind them and how to deal with them. They
are problems and difficulties within us, internally in the mind and mental existence.
External Conditions make Demands and Challenge, but they are not Problems or
Difficulties
External conditions and the world around us make demands and challenge us, but they are
not problems or difficulties in themselves. Problems and difficulties only exist in our
mind. They are problems and difficulties understanding what enters our mind and how to
deal with it. They lie in what we need to do, the mental work and effort in which we must
engage to establish clarity of mind and understanding, establish a clear picture in the
mind about what enters the mind and awareness, our experience, the conditions that lie
behind them and how to deal with them. Mental problems are difficulties understanding and
dealing with the demands and challenges the conditions of existence and the world around
us make on us in our mind.
Difference between Conditions of Existence, and Dealing with them
We must distinguish and differentiate between conditions, demands and challenges of
existence and the world around us on the one hand, and problems and difficulties of
understanding and dealing with them on the other. The conditions, demands and challenges
of existence and the world around us are a given, which lie largely beyond our control.
Problems, on the other hand, are difficulties considering and understanding them, and how
to deal with them.
World has no Need for Order and Stability, Only we have a Need for them
External reality, the world around us is neither disordered, unstable, lacking in clarity
or coherence, uncertain or unsafe. External conditions may be complex, but they are not
disordered or unstable. They are a given that lies largely beyond our individual control.
The natural world has no need and is not concerned with order and stability, clarity and
coherence, certainty, security or confidence. Disorder and instability, doubt and
confusion, uncertainty and insecurity only exist in our minds. They are human mental
conditions. They are conditions of our mind and mental existence. Order and stability,
clarity and coherence, certainty and security are human mental needs. It is our role and
responsibility to establish them. It is for us individually to establish a sense of order
and stability, clarity and coherence, certainty and security in our mind, about the
conditions of our existence, our own mental and physical existence and the world around
us, and how to deal with them.
Mental Problems Lie in Failing to Understand and Manage where we Consciously Exist and
Act
Mental problems and difficulties result from failing to understand and manage 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. The
place where individually we are in charge and in control, where we must actively be
engaged and take responsibility for what takes place, what we do and what we need to do,
establish, develop and maintain. 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 the place where problems,
difficulties, errors and mistakes have their roots and beginnings, and where answers and
solutions must start.
Mental Problems Start as Mental Demands and Challenges
Mental problems and difficulties lie in the demands and challenges of the mind and mental
existence that we must deal with. If we fail or insufficiently deal with them, they
develop into larger, chronic, persisting and growing problems and difficulties. They
develop into demands, challenges, problems and difficulties that become increasingly more
difficult to deal with, requiring greater mental work, effort and adjustment, if not
outside help.
Mind and Mental Existence
Consciously we exist and act in the mind. It is where we experience, become aware and
where we must consider the conditions of existence, the world around us, and how to deal
with them. The mind is where individually we are in charge and in control, 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. What takes place
and what we do in the mind and mental existence defines and governs how we understand and
manage existence and development. It 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, with nature and the natural
environment. What takes place and what we do in the mind and mental existence defines and
governs how we deal with the conditions, demands and challenges of existence and the world
around us, with problems and difficulties, change and changing conditions. The mind and
mental existence is where problems and difficulties, errors and mistakes have their roots
and beginnings and it is where answers and solutions must start.
We are connected to and experience reality, the conditions of our existence, our own
mental and physical existence and the world around us only indirectly, through the
perceptions, sensations and feelings that enter our mind and awareness. We are not
directly connected with or in touch with reality, the conditions of existence beyond the
mind. We experience them only indirectly through our sense organs, which send signals or
impulses via the nervous system to our mind and awareness.
We perceive and become aware of the world around us through our external sense organs --
eyes, ears, mouth, nose and skin. The conditions of our physical existence, our physical
body, we sense through internal sensors. The conditions of our mental existence and the
state of our mind we experience through our feelings. Our experience, the perceptions,
sensations and feelings that enter our mind and awareness are our only access to the world
beyond the mind, a world with which we must interact to sustain and maintain our
existence.
We do not experience the conditions of existence and the world around us as an integrated
whole. We experience, perceive, sense and feel different elements, details and specifics
of reality in separate and disconnected ways. We experience the conditions of existence
and the world around us in a fragmented and disconnected way. We experience, perceive,
sense and feel different elements, details and specifics through different sense organs as
separate and disconnected pieces of information. Our experience divides and separates the
conditions of existence and the world around us into different and disconnected
perceptions, sensations and feelings. Our experience fragments an integrated, connected
and interacting world and reality. It fragments, divides and separates an integrated,
connected and interacting world into disconnected elements, details and specifics,
separate and disconnected perceptions, sensations and feelings.
Our experience, the perceptions, sensations and feelings that enter the mind do not fully
impress themselves in all their details on our awareness. They do not order and arrange
themselves on their own in a meaningful way in our mind and awareness. They do not form
clear pictures and images in the mind about the reality and conditions that lie behind
them, and how to deal with them. What enters the mind and awareness enters as vague
notions, lacking in clarity and order.
The results or the initial mental conditions created by our experience, the perceptions,
sensations and feelings that enter the mind and awareness are mental disorder and
instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and insecurity. Separate and disconnected
perceptions, sensations and feelings floating about the mind and awareness create
conditions and feelings of mental disorder and instability. Leading to doubt and confusion
about what they tell us about the conditions of existence, our own mental and physical
existence and the world around us that lie behind them, and how to deal with them. Leaving
us with a feeling of uncertainty and insecurity, about what we are confronted with, what
we must deal with, and our ability to manage and deal with it. It is our role and
responsibility to deal with the mental disorder, instability, doubt, confusion,
uncertainty and insecurity created by our experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings
through considering and making sense, establishing clarity of mind and understanding about
the conditions that lie behind them and how to deal with them.
Changing Conditions
We exist in and we are a part of a constantly unfolding, changing and transforming world.
Everything within us and around us, in our own mental and physical existence and in the
world around us, is constantly changing. The only constant in our existence and in the
world is change. Everything within us and around us, the conditions, needs, demands and
challenges of existence, our own mental and physical existence and the world around us
change constantly. What enters the mind and awareness, our experience, perceptions,
sensations and feelings constantly change. They constantly challenge, threaten, call into
question the established mental order and state of mind. It requires constant active
mental engagement, mental work and effort. Considering and making sense of changing
experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings that enter the mind and awareness, the
conditions, needs, demands and challenges that lie behind them, and how to deal with them.
Clarity of Mind and Understanding
To manage and sustain our existence and meet our needs we must interact with the
constantly changing world. It requires establishing clarity of mind and understanding
about the conditions of existence, the world around us, and how to deal with them. It is
not possible to manage and sustain our existence, meet our needs, deal with, respond and
adjust to constant change and changing conditions from within mental disorder and
instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and insecurity. We are not by nature,
biologically, genetically or neurologically preconditioned to interact with the world in
necessary and appropriate ways. We have an active role to play in managing and sustaining
our existence; meeting our needs, dealing with, responding and adjusting to changing
conditions, demands and challenges, both in our own mental and physical existence and in
the world around us.
We need to make choices and decisions, choosing from a range of different options,
defining necessary goals and objectives, and deciding on the required behaviour and
actions. We cannot make necessary choices and decisions, define appropriate goals and
objectives, consider, plan, organize and manage the required behaviour and action from
within disorder, instability, doubt, confusion, uncertainty and insecurity. Dealing with,
responding and adjusting to change and changing conditions, demands and challenges is not
possible from within disorder and instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and
insecurity created in the mind by our experience. It is not possible to understand and
manage the role and responsibility in our existence and development from within mental
disorder and instability without causing problems and difficulties. It requires
establishing and maintaining the necessary internal mental conditions - mental order and
stability, clarity of mind and understanding, certainty, security and confidence, before
acting, before engaging and dealing with external conditions, with each other and the
world around us.
To manage and sustain our existence in a constantly changing world we need to establish
and maintain a sense of self, a sense of order and stability, clarity of mind and
understanding, a sense of certainty and security. We must establish a sense of the
individual human self to differentiate ourselves from others and from the world around us
and to understand our own individual role and responsibility, and the role of others and
the role of nature in our existence. We need to establish a sense of order, stability,
clarity of mind and understanding to understand the conditions, demands and challenges of
existence, which lie behind our experience, and how to deal with them. Mental order,
stability, and clarity of mind and understanding need to guide and direct our behaviour
and actions, managing our existence, interacting with each other and the world around us.
We must establish a sense of certainty, security and confidence about our ability to
manage our existence, to deal with the conditions, demands and challenges of existence,
change and changing conditions, to meet our needs, and to develop and use the necessary
and appropriate powers and abilities,, skills and practices.
We need to establish a sense of self, a sense of order and stability, clarity and
coherence, certainty and security where individually we are in charge and in control, in
the mind and mental existence. Not looking for them or trying to establish them externally
in the world around us, in socio-cultural and physical-material terms. That is, we must
establish the necessary internal mental conditions, before engaging and dealing with the
world around us.
Within this context, feelings and emotions are indicators about what we need to do in the
mind and mental existence before engaging and dealing with the world beyond the mind. They
are indicators that alert us to what we need to do in the mind and mental existence to
avoid creating problems and difficulties for ourselves, for others and in the world around
us, managing and sustaining our existence, interacting with each other and the world us
around within constantly changing conditions. Feelings and emotions are not to be acted on
or acted out. Instead, we must deal with them through addressing the conditions that lie
behind them.
Feelings and emotions are not guides to action. They are indicators or warning signs
alerting us to what we need to do and what we must deal with in the mind and mental
existence. Feelings and emotions are warning signs, not guides to behaviour and actions.
Feelings do not tell us how to act. They only lead to reacting, acting in reactive and
defensive ways. Feelings do not provide clarity of mind and understanding about the
conditions, demands and challenges we face and how to deal with them, which must guide and
direct our behaviour and actions. They warn or alert us about what we are confronted with
and have to deal with in the mind and mental existence to avoid doing harm to ourselves,
to others or the world around us. It is clarity of mind and understanding about what we
face and have to deal with that must guide and direct our behaviour and actions not our
feelings, how we feel about the conditions of existence.
Necessary Internal Mental Conditions
To manage and sustain our existence in a constantly changing world requires establishing
the necessary internal mental conditions before acting and engaging with the world around
us. It requires establishing and maintaining in the mind a sense of order and stability,
clarity of mind and understanding, and a sense of certainty, security and confidence. It
involves mentally processing what enters the mind and awareness, ordering and arranging
the experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings that enter the mind and awareness.
Identifying their nature and origins - perceptions about external conditions and the world
around us, sensations of our own physical existence, and feelings about the conditions of
our mental existence and state of mind -- and arranging them in the order in which they
need to be dealt with. We must consider and make sense of them, the conditions that lie
behind them, and how to deal with them. We need to establish clarity of mind and
understanding, forming clear and detailed pictures in the mind about them.
Managing and sustaining existence in a constantly changing world involves dealing with
constantly changing experience, conditions, demands and challenges, dealing with them when
only a minimum in mental work and effort are required and before they develop into larger
problems and difficulties. It requires engaging in a process of continuous conceptual and
mental self-development and growth. Constantly, in light of change and changing
conditions, reconsidering, updating, correcting, expanding and improving the
understanding, the mental powers and abilities, mental skills and practices we develop, on
which we rely, how we develop and use them. Reconsider, update, correct and improve the
choices and decisions we make and how we make them, the aims, goals and objectives we
pursue and how we define them, and the behaviour and actions in which we engage and how we
consider, plan, organize and manage them.
Difficulties and Challenges
Intangible, Immaterial Nature of Mind and Mental Existence
The difficulties and challenges of understanding and managing the mind and mental
existence, establishing and maintaining the necessary internal mental conditions in the
first instance lie in the intangible, immaterial, invisible and elusive nature of the mind
and mental existence. The mind and mental existence, what takes place and what we do, our
role and responsibility, our mental needs and how to meet them, our mental faculties, how
to develop and use them, are not as obvious and self-evident as our physical existence,
physical needs and physical faculties. The mind and mental existence are intangible,
invisible and immaterial, but they are no less real and important.
Making Choices and Decisions without Guides
The difficulties and challenges moreover lie in having to make choices and decisions
without clear, obvious or objective guides, direction, or criteria of evaluation. Clarity
of mind and understanding about the conditions of existence and the world around us, and
how to deal with them are not a given. We need to make choices and decisions, choosing
between different views and understanding, different interpretations of our experience,
the conditions that lie behind them, and how to deal with them. The difficulties and
challenges lie in the fact that we need to make choices and decisions without objective,
neutral or independent guides.
Taking Chances in the Context of Disorder and Instability
The difficulties and challenges lie in having to take chances within the context of mental
disorder and instability, doubt and confusion, uncertainty and insecurity. They lie in
having to take the chance to be wrong, make errors and mistakes, and have to correct
oneself. The challenges and difficulties lie in the need to question and critically
evaluate oneself constantly. Questioning and critically evaluating the views and
understanding we embrace, and how we arrive at them, 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.
Correct oneself when wrong, when falling short, when making errors and mistakes, and not
repeating them.
Disciplining and Controlling Oneself in the Face of Doubt and Confusion
The difficulties and challenges lie in the need to ensure the mental images, pictures and
understanding we establish in the mind about the conditions of existence and the world
around us are supported by our experience, and they reflect the reality and conditions
that lie behind them. It requires exercising mental discipline in the face of challenges
and threats to the established mental order and state of mind. It requires disciplining
and controlling oneself, not escaping into defensiveness, heading off on tangents, idle
speculation, unsubstantiated beliefs, assumptions and abstractions, or jumping to
conclusions. Which happens easily when we are mentally not fully engaged, we do not
exercise mental discipline and pay attention.
Need to Develop Mental Faculties before Using them
A further difficulty and challenge lies in the fact that to use our mental faculties we
first must understand and develop them. Our mental faculties are only a natural mental
potential, which we need to develop through conscious, deliberate and focused exercise and
practice. They do not develop on their own. A limited or rudimentary level of our natural
mental powers and abilities can be developed indirectly by simply going through everyday
routines. However, to fully develop our mental potential, our natural mental powers and
abilities, and translate them into the necessary mental skills and practices requires
conscious, deliberate and focused exercise and practice. The mental faculties, the natural
mental powers and abilities that are required and we need to develop include being
mentally alert, active and engaged, directing, focusing and concentrating the mind and
attention, exercising mental discipline and mental flexibility. They include the power and
ability to reason, to deduce and conclude from the given in our experience about the
hidden that lies beyond our experience -- consider issues, conditions and experience
systematically, step-by-step, in depth and detail to recognize and understand underlying
forces and processes, causes and effects. Moreover, the power and ability to visualize, or
see in the mind, create clear and detailed images and pictures in the mind, and the power
and ability to recall and recollect from memory.
Experience Challenges Mental Conditions and State of Mind
The difficulties and challenges of understanding and managing the mind and mental
existence, establishing and maintaining the necessary internal mental conditions, are
compounded by the fact that what enters the mind and awareness from the outside -- our
experience, perceptions, sensations and feelings -- constantly challenge, threaten and
call into question the established mental order or state of mind. They require constant
mental work and effort. Mental order and stability do not maintain themselves once
established. They must constantly be re-established.
Existing in and as a part of a constantly changing world experience, perceptions,
sensations and feelings change constantly. Constantly challenging and calling into
question the established mental order and stability, clarity and coherence, certainty,
security and confidence. They call into question established beliefs, views, values and
conventions that we embrace and that provide a sense of mental order and stability,
clarity of mind and understanding, certainty, security and confidence.
Operating at the Level of Feelings and Emotions
In addition, the difficulties and challenges of understanding and managing the mind and
mental existence lie in operating at the level of feelings and emotions, although feelings
and emotions are not guides to action. Our first impulse is to react, to protect the mind,
the established mental order and state of mind, the work and effort that has gone into
them from the challenge and threat of what enters from the outside. The impulse is to
react, to act on feelings, emotions and first impressions. Acting on how we feel about
what enters the mind and awareness, not on our understanding of it. To act on likes and
dislikes instead of managing the role and responsibility in the mind and mental existence
that is ours to understand and manage. Considering and making sense of what enter the mind
and awareness, the conditions the lies behind them, and how to deal with them. It is
easier to give in to first impressions and instant reactions, to urges or impulses than to
engage in the mental work and effort required to establish clarity of mind and
understanding..
Education and Training
Ultimately, the problems and difficulties understanding and managing the mind and mental
existence, establishing and maintaining the necessary internal mental conditions lie in
lacking the necessary education and training. Traditionally education and training do not
provide the required conceptual foundation and mental capacity. They do not provide an
understanding of the fundamentals, the natural conditions, needs, demands and challenges
of the mind, mental existence and mental development, how to deal with and manage them.
Traditional education and training do not develop in the individual the necessary mental
capacity, the required mental faculties. They do not develop, through exercise and
practice, the natural mental potential, natural mental powers and abilities, necessary
mental skills and practices, and engaging in the required mental work and effort.
The lack of education and training in turn is rooted in the traditional and modern view
and understanding of the mind, mental existence and mental development, mental behaviour
and actions, how to deal with and manage them. Traditionally, the mind and mental
existence have been understood as the human spirit or soul, our connection to a
supernatural-spiritual world. The mind and mental existence are viewed as the battleground
of good and evil spirits and forces to control us, to control human behaviour and actions.
The mind and mental existence are managed through appeals and offerings to supernatural
spirits, forces and gods for favours and protection from evil forces and temptations.
In psychology and psychiatry the mind and mental existence are understood from the
outside, through observing, deducing and concluding from outward behaviour and actions
about what takes place and what we do in the mind and mental existence. Mental problems
and difficulties are address through psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, psychiatric medication
and drugs. In the "sciences of the mind" -- cognitive science, neuroscience,
behavioral genetics and evolutionary psychology -- the mind and mental existence are
understood through the study of the physical-biological roots and foundation and the
genetic-neurological structure, systems and processes behind the mind, mental existence
and mental faculties. What takes place and what we do in the mind and mental existence,
our mental behaviour and actions are understood to be defined and governed by our genetic
make up and the neurological structure and processes of the brain.
Today, we have yet to understand the mind and mental existence from the inside, as the
place where we consciously exist and act. The place where we experience, become aware and
must consider the conditions of existence and the world around us, and how to deal with
them. We have yet to consider and understand the mind and mental existence is where
individually we are in charge and in control, 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. What takes place and what we do in the mind
and mental existence defines and governs how we understand and manage existence and
development. It 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, with nature and the natural environment. What takes
place and what we do in the mind and mental existence defines and governs how we deal with
the conditions, demands and challenges of existence and the world around us, with problems
and difficulties, change and changing conditions. We have yet to understand and manage the
mind and mental existence as the place where problems, difficulties and crises, conflict
and confrontation have their roots and beginnings, and where answers and solutions must
start.
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