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@shantellewrites November 26th, 2024, In my new apartment after living a year at a long-term treatment facility.

Trauma is a 'stupid friend' that our minds & bodies don't forget - Dr. Gabor Maté

"We tend to think of the big-ticket things: sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, which happen a lot. But you can wound the child if you understand that trauma means a wound just by not picking them up when they're crying and they need your attention and you don't give it to them."

If you Google “stop using drugs” right now, you’ll get a crisis hotline number and some sponsored ads for for-profit rehabs. The best rehabs are available to those who have paid their insurance deductible. If you’re uninsured, you’ll get a jail cot. I went from riding horses to cold metal cots and uncooked sausage in the morning. I never thought I’d be the one trading jail trays, but 21 days in a state detox, and I’m fighting over an inheritance of eggs for coffee that the girl who just left, left to me. Every morning, “Eggs for coffee.” Every night, “Juice for applesauce”. I was in jail.

Dr. Gabor Maté[1] says we need to ask the addict what they get from drugs before just trying to take it away. I’ve pondered the saying, “If drugs are the solution, what is the question?” Am I supposed to say that the question is, “How can I ruin my life and die?”cuz that’s never the question I’m answering. The question is nicer. It’s more like, “How can I get the energy to unpack and organize my new apartment? How do I get the courage to talk to people? How do I get the freedom of spirit to write and create? How do I get the confidence to be exactly who I am? How do I get the feeling of utter completeness and sense of self?”

Cocaine.

If you don’t take too much to get paranoid or have to beg for your dealer to come at double the rate, it’s pretty damn okay. If no one knows or judges you, you get to benefit from being the most successful person you are. If you don’t talk too fast, no one will suspect.

Drugs have no boundaries. The energy turns to paranoia. It would be a perfect solution if you weren’t risking death. Memento Mori –the tattoo on the waitress’ arm at R&R. I said that means, remember death? That was my ego trying to prove I knew Latin, but I wish I could’ve talked to her about my true understanding. The last chapter or one of the last chapters in Untethered Soul talks about that. The reality that death is for sure is a gift to have gratitude for the life we live immediately.

In an extended interview, acclaimed physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, just out, called “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture.” “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté, who argues in his book that “psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease.” He says healing requires a reconnection between the mind and the body, which can be achieved through cultivating a sense of community, meaning, belonging and purpose. [2]

Purpose is key. That’s what I thank God for. Even though I was at rock bottom, that’s when He made me aware of my purpose. If I didn’t have this rare chance to see my purpose, I would’ve never made it out. He had to give it to me early. I always knew I wanted to help poor people get the resources they needed. I know how to get food stamps in one day online. I know how to extend my time in my home for an eviction. I know how to request grant money to keep my utilities on. I can write my own custody agreement. I wanted to show people who hit my worst struggles to get out faster.

I want to teach them to be smarter. To be better.

The Silva Mind Control Method, by José Silva[3]

Chapter 1: Using more of your mind in special ways.

Imagine  coming into direct working contact with an all-pervading higher intelligence and learning in a moment of numinous[4] joy that It is on your side. Imagine too that you made this contact in such simple ways (like using drugs? But then like recovery step 2), that for the rest of your life you need never again  feel helplessly out of touch with something you always suspected was there, but could never quite reach. A helpful wisdom. A flash of insight when you need it. The feeling of a loving, powerful present. How would it feel? It would be a peak experience, not too different, perhaps not different at all from spiritual awe (spiritual awakening).

A Meditative Level of Mind

This is a state of deep relaxation. Deeper than in sleep itself, but accompanied by a special kind of awareness. It is, in fact, an altered state of consciousness used in virtually every meditative discipline and in intensive prayer . NO DRUGS OR BIOFEEDBACK ARE USED.  

Entering this state is Going to your level, or sometimes, Going into Alpha, All of mind control is in plain English. No scientific jargon or Far Eastern words. One of the first things students hear is, “You are learning to use more of your mind and  to use it in a special manner.” Only when they actually experience these powers, do they come to believe.

Meditating is a special level of mind, clearing the mind of all conscious thought.This produces a pleasant calm and goes a long way toward relieving and preventing  illnesses caused by tension, as countless studies have proved. But this is passive meditation. Mind control goes far beyond this. It teaches the student to use this level of mind for solving problems; little nagging ones as well as larger, burdensome ones . This is dynamic meditation. The power of it is truly spectacular.

Alpha, brain wave pattern

Measured by EEG, the rhythms of this energy are measured in CPS (cycles per second). Generally, about 14 CPS and up are called beta waves, 7-14 are Alpha, 4-7, Theta, and 4 and below are Delta. When you are wide awake, you are in Beta or outer awareness. When you are daydreaming or not quite awake, you are in Alpha, or inner consciousness. When you are asleep, you are in Alpha, Theta, or Delta. Not just Alpha alone, as many believe. WIth mind control training , you can enter the Alpha at will and still remain fully alert.

Being in Beta or wide awake does not produce any one particular feeling. You might feel confident or fearful, busy or idle, engrossed or bored. The possibilities in Beta are endless. In the deeper levels, the possibilities are limited for most people. Life has taught them to function in Beta, not Alpha or Theta. At these deeper levels, they are pretty much limited to daydreaming; the edges of sleep or sleep itself. The Alpha dimension has a complete set of sensing faculties, like the Beta. In other words, we can do different things in Alpha than we can do in Beta. This is a key concept in mind control. Once you become acquainted with these sensing faculties and learn to use them, you will be using more of your mind in a special manner.  You will actually operate psychically when you want to, tapping in on higher intelligence. Most people seek mind control as a way to relax. This is what most of them come for. They learn much much more.

They learn that the 5 senses are only a part of the senses they were born with. There are others; call them powers or senses. The mission of mind control is to train us to awaken these powers.

The drug culture can have its mind-expanding pills, powders and shots. I’ll take mine straight. -Mademoiselle's Beauty Editor, Nadine Burton, March 1972

MInd control does expand your mind. It teaches you how to expand it. It is aptly named because unlike drugs or hypnosis, you are in control. MInd expansion, self-knowledge, and helping others through mind control, are only limited by your own limitations. Anything is possible. You hear about it happening to others and suddenly, you see it happening to you.

If drugs are the answer, what’s the question? The question is how do I feel high off life? The real solution is to control your mind to love life.

Dynamic Meditation

“Visualize, Vi-vi-Visualize!” -Billy Blanks, Tae Bo

Connect a real event with an imaginary event.  Choose an event that is a solution to a problem.

1, Law 1: You must desire the event.

2. Law 2: You must believe the event can take place.

3. Law 3: You must expect the event to take place. = Mind Control and Effective Visualization 


LISTEN TO FORGETTING & FEAR 

[1] Dr. Maté, renowned addiction expert, calls for a compassionate approach toward addiction, whether in ourselves or in others. Gabor believes that the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in childhood trauma and in stress and social dislocation endemic to systems of inequality and injustice. In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, one of his best-selling books, draws on cutting-edge science and real-life stories to show that all addictions originate in trauma and emotional loss. Addiction - Dr. Gabor Maté

[3] I transcribed the parts I felt were important. See full text here: Microsoft Word - The silva mind conrol method by philip miele.doc

[4] having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity:

"the strange, numinous beauty of this ancient landmark"

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