A dream is said to be a part of a person’s REM sleep. Dreams are supposed to be a person’s unfulfilled wishes. The things which we wanted to do but did not are the things we think about in our subconscious and they manifest themselves as dreams. If you are happy and satisfied, you will have happy dreams. If you are sad and dissatisfied, you will have unhappy dreams.

Interpreting dreams can sometimes trigger the mind of a person. When you know about your future from a fortune teller, you will start worrying. You will start taking steps consciously or unconsciously to make the good predictions come true and bad ones untrue. So, basically it can be said that dreams are tools that guide and heal us.

Nightmares are also dreams, but we can do without them. They scare us. But sometimes, a bad dream will be significant in one’s life. If the dreams are related to the present happenings in your life, then you should view them as a message.

Lucid dream is a state of mind where a person knows that he or she is dreaming. They know that they are sleeping, but also knows that they are dreaming. He is conscious about what is happening around him. When he awakens, he can only remember a part of the dream.

These dreams can make your life sometimes. So, remember your dreams. Learn to interpret them and you will get a lot of information about your future. However, do not get disappointed if things do not come true as many times they do not.

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All dreams have a protective function. The unconscious mind that produces them sends warnings, information and guidance to your human conscience, so that it may avoid the traps of the anti-conscience.

The anti-conscience is the wild side of your conscience, which remains in a primitive condition. It keeps trying to destroy the human side of your conscience through absurdity, so that it may control your behavior. This is why most dream symbols indicate danger.

Almost all dream images have symbolic meanings. The associations that gave these meanings are based on the unconscious wisdom.

For example, when you see your mother in a dream, this means that you are being influenced by the anti-conscience.

When you think about your mother you believe that she represents someone who cares about you. However, the symbolic meaning that she has in your dreams is negative because your mother represents the chaotic formation of the primitive conscience, without any organization.

You should never interpret the meaning of dreams based on your opinion. You must study the dream language, the same way that you must study a foreign language if you want to understand it.

There are seven basic types of dreams:

1. Dreams that protect your mental health – These are the most complex ones; you absolutely need to learn the meaning of all dream symbols in order to understand them.

2. Dreams that give you information about the person you love -These are the simplest ones. The person you love doesn’t have a symbolic meaning. Other people don’t have a symbolic meaning in this type of dream either. You only need to learn the meaning of a few dream symbols in order to understand these dreams, without completely studying the dream language.

3. Dreams that give you information about dead people – These dreams are rare. You will have objective information about dead people only if they were very important for you. Otherwise, dead people in your dreams represent parts of your own personality.

The symbolism used in dreams about dead people is as complex as the symbolism used in dreams about your mental health. However, you can understand the unconscious messages much easier since the dead person doesn’t have a symbolic meaning. You only need to translate the other parts of the dream.

4. Nightmares, recurring dreams, or warnings – These are the most common ones. You are in constant danger due to the existence of the violent anti-conscience that tries to control your behavior.

5. Dreams containing future predictions – These dreams help you get prepared to face future difficulties, giving you the chance to correct your mistakes and prepare the future results you desire.

6. Dreams that analyze your past – These dreams work like psychotherapy, relieving you from traumas, fears, wrong impressions, and conclusions. They correct your behavior and attitude.

7. Dreams that reflect your progress – As you keep translating the meaning of your dreams and following the unconscious guidance, there are various dream symbols and themes that indicate all the evolutionary stages you pass through.

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There is so much fuel for thought in this book, that you will have the opportunity to read several articles as my mental juices are stimulated.

As a Mind-Body Psychotherapist I work with the concept and the emotion of fear. From the lowest level of anxiety to full blown panic, this emotion can cause the heart to race and one to shudder in anticipation of the possible event that one’s life feels out of control.

Decisions made when in a state of fright are not, by their very nature, rational. It’s an emotion, not logic.

The amygdala in the limbic brain becomes activated when we are overwrought. The cortex, the rational part of the brain takes a back seat. The admonition to be reasonable has no effect other than to induce anger in someone in a state of severe agitation.

Let’s look at the word “epidemic.”

Do a “gut check” right now. Just reading the word, does your abdomen twist a little, perhaps even hurt? Do you want to act on emotion or are you calm enough to look beyond the hype to the facts and evaluate the pros and cons of your actions.

Think of your beliefs regarding this word bandied about by FOX, CNN and other national and local news sources. Looking in the thesaurus, one of the phrases is “widespread disease.” That’s what the “ordinary” person thinks of. The mind then runs to such things as the plague, AIDS, SARS, bio-warfare, H1N1 and so on.

People are in such panic they are ready to take any vaccine the pharmaceutical industry dishes out, even though it has not been tested, to avoid getting sick.

What does “epidemic” mean to epidemiologists. Alcabes, who is an associate professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College of the City University of New York, as well as a visiting professor at Yale’s School of Nursing, describes it as a “disease” appearing more often than usual.

When flu season hits, the outbreak hits the news. When another teen dies in an automobile accident, unless he or she is prominent, the family grieves privately. The number of teens who loose their lives on the road while in a car is four or five times that from illness. Yet the tragedy of the lost future in our youth is not continually in public awareness.

The flu outbreak is unusual. The death from another car crash is tragic but not unusual.

How we handle the out of the ordinary depends upon our own beliefs as well as the attempt of public agencies to influence feelings and actions.

The question for you to examine is, “Are you able to gather information before following the hysteria driven sound bites, or do you allow yourself to be swept away in the artificially created tsunami of fear?”

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Adult pathological narcissism is no more “curable” than the entirety of one’s personality is disposable. The patient is a narcissist. Narcissism is more akin to the colour of one’s skin rather than to one’s choice of subjects at the university.

Moreover, the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is frequently diagnosed with other, even more intractable personality disorders, mental illnesses, and substance abuse.

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies (CBTs)

The CBTs believe that insight – even if merely verbal and intellectual – is sufficient to induce an emotional outcome. If properly manipulated, verbal cues, insights, analyses of standard sentences we keep saying to ourselves (”I am ugly”, “I am afraid no one would like to be with me”), inner dialogues and narratives, and repeated behavioural patterns (learned behaviours) coupled with positive (and, rarely, negative) reinforcements – are sufficient to induce a cumulative emotional effect tantamount to healing.

Psychodynamic theories do not believe that cognition can influence emotion. They believe that much deeper strata have to be accessed and studied by both patient and therapist. The very exposure of these strata is considered sufficient to induce a dynamic of healing. The therapist’s role is either to interpret the material revealed to the patient (psychoanalysis) by allowing the patient to transfer past experience and superimpose it on the therapist – or to actively engage in providing a safe emotional and holding environment conducive to changes in the patient.

The sad fact is that no known therapy is effective with narcissism ITSELF – though a few therapies are reasonably successful as far as coping with some of its effects goes (behavioural modification).

Dynamic Psychotherapy

Or Psychodynamic Therapy, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

As opposed to common opinion it is NOT psychoanalysis. It is an intensive psychotherapy BASED on psychoanalytic theory WITHOUT the (very important) element of free association. This is not to say that free association is not used – only that it is not a pillar of the technique in dynamic therapies. Dynamic therapies are usually applied to patients not considered “suitable” for psychoanalysis (such as Personality Disorders, except the Avoidant PD).

Typically, different modes of interpretation are employed and other techniques borrowed from other treatments modalities. But the material interpreted is not necessarily the result of free association or dreams and the psychotherapist is a lot more active than the psychoanalyst.

These treatments are open-ended. At the commencement of the therapy the therapist (analyst) makes an agreement (a “pact”) with the analysand (patient or client). The pact says that the patient undertakes to explore his problems no matter how long it takes (and how expensive it becomes). This is supposed to make the therapeutic environment much more relaxed because the patient knows that the analyst is at his/her disposal no matter how many meetings would be required in order to broach painful subject matter.

Sometimes, these therapies are divided to expressive versus supportive, but I regard this division as misleading.

Expressive means uncovering (=making conscious) the patient’s conflicts and studying his/her defences and resistances. The analyst interprets the conflict in view of the new knowledge gained and guides the therapy towards a resolution of the conflict. The conflict, in other words, is “interpreted away” through insight and the change in the patient motivated by his/her insights.

The supportive therapies seek to strengthen the Ego. Their premise is that a strong Ego can cope better (and later on, alone) with external (situational) or internal (instincts, drives) pressures. Supportive therapies seek to increase the patient’s ability to REPRESS conflicts (rather than bring them to the surface of consciousness). As a painful conflict is suppressed – so are all manner of dysphorias and symptoms. This is somewhat reminiscent of behaviourism (the main aim is to change behaviour and to relieve symptoms). It usually makes no use of insight or interpretation (though there are exceptions).

Group Therapies

Narcissists are notoriously unsuitable for collaborative efforts of any kind, let alone group therapy. They immediately size up others as potential Sources of Narcissistic Supply – or potential competitors. They idealise the first (suppliers) and devalue the latter (competitors). This, obviously, is not very conducive to group therapy.

Moreover, the dynamic of the group is bound to reflect the interactions of its members. Narcissists are individualists. They regard coalitions with disdain and contempt. The need to resort to team work, to adhere to group rules, to succumb to a moderator, and to honour and respect the other members as equals – is perceived by them to be humiliating and degrading (a contemptible weakness). Thus, a group containing one or more narcissists is likely to fluctuate between short-term, very small size, coalitions (based on “superiority” and contempt) and outbreaks (acting outs) of rage and coercion.

Can Narcissism be Cured?

Adult narcissists can rarely be “cured”, though some scholars think otherwise. Still, the earlier the therapeutic intervention, the better the prognosis. A correct diagnosis and a proper mix of treatment modalities in early adolescence guarantees success without relapse in anywhere between one third and one half the cases. Additionally, ageing ameliorates or even vanquishes some antisocial behaviors.

In their seminal tome, “Personality Disorders in Modern Life” (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2000), Theodore Millon and Roger Davis write (p. 308):

“Most narcissists strongly resist psychotherapy. For those who choose to remain in therapy, there are several pitfalls that are difficult to avoid … Interpretation and even general assessment are often difficult to accomplish…”

The third edition of the “Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry” (Oxford, Oxford University Press, reprinted 2000), cautions (p. 128):

“… (P)eople cannot change their natures, but can only change their situations. There has been some progress in finding ways of effecting small changes in disorders of personality, but management still consists largely of helping the person to find a way of life that conflicts less with his character … Whatever treatment is used, aims should be modest and considerable time should be allowed to achieve them.”

The fourth edition of the authoritative “Review of General Psychiatry” (London, Prentice-Hall International, 1995), says (p. 309):

“(People with personality disorders) … cause resentment and possibly even alienation and burnout in the healthcare professionals who treat them … (p. 318) Long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have been attempted with (narcissists), although their use has been controversial.”

The reason narcissism is under-reported and healing over-stated is that therapists are being fooled by smart narcissists. Most narcissists are expert manipulators and they learn how to deceive their therapists.

Here are some hard facts:

There are gradations and shades of narcissism. The difference between two narcissists can be great. The existence of grandiosity and empathy or lack thereof are not minor variations. They are serious predictors of future dynamics. The prognosis is much better if they do exist.

There are cases of spontaneous healing and of “short-term NPD” [see Gunderson's and Roningstam work, 1996].

The prognosis for a classical NPD case (grandiosity, lack of empathy and all) is decidedly not good as far as long-term, lasting, and complete healing. Moreover, narcissists are intensely disliked by therapists.

BUT…

Side effects, co-morbid disorders (such as Obsessive-Compulsive behaviors) and some aspects of NPD (the dysphorias, the paranoiac dimensions, the outcomes of the sense of entitlement, the pathological lying) can be modified (using talk therapy and, depending on the problem, medication). these are not short-term or complete solutions – but some of them do have long-term effects.

The DSM is a billing and administration oriented diagnostic tool. It is intended to “tidy” up the psychiatrist’s desk. The Personality Disorders are ill demarcated. The differential diagnoses are vaguely defined. There are some cultural biases and judgements [see the diagnostic criteria of the Schizotypal PD]. The result is sizeable confusion and multiple diagnoses (”co-morbidity”). NPD was introduced to the DSM in 1980 [DSM-III]. There isn’t enough research to substantiate any view or hypothesis about NPD. Future DSM editions may abolish it altogether within the framework of a cluster or a single “personality disorder” category. As it is, the difference between HPD, BPD, AsPD, and NPD is, to my mind, rather blurred. When we ask: “Can NPD be healed?” we need to realise that we don’t know for sure what is NPD and what constitutes long-term healing in the case of an NPD. There are those who seriously claim that NPD is a cultural disease with a societal determinant.

Narcissists in Therapy

In therapy, the general idea is to create the conditions for the True Self to resume its growth: safety, predictability, justice, love and acceptance – a mirroring and holding environment. Therapy is supposed to provide these conditions of nurturance and the guidance necessary to achieve these goals (through transference, cognitive re-labelling or other methods). The narcissist must learn that his past experiences are not laws of nature, that not all adults are abusive, that relationships can be nurturing and supportive.

Most therapists try to co-opt the narcissist’s inflated ego (False Self) and defences. They compliment the narcissist, challenging him to prove his omnipotence by overcoming his disorder. They appeal to his quest for perfection, brilliance, and eternal love – and his paranoid tendencies – in an attempt to get rid of counterproductive, self-defeating, and dysfunctional behaviour patterns.

By stroking the narcissist’s grandiosity, they hope to modify or counter cognitive deficits, thinking errors, and the narcissist’s victim-stance. They contract with the narcissist to alter his conduct. Some even go to the extent of medicalizing the disorder, attributing it to a hereditary or biochemical origin and thus “absolving” the narcissist from guilt and responsibility and freeing his mental resources to concentrate on the therapy.

Confronting the narcissist head on and engaging in power politics (”I am cleverer”, “My will should prevail”, and so on) is decidedly unhelpful and could lead to rage attacks and a deepening of the narcissist’s persecutory delusions, bred by his humiliation in the therapeutic setting.

Successes have been reported by applying 12-step techniques (as modified for patients suffering from the Antisocial Personality Disorder), and with treatment modalities as diverse as NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), Schema Therapy, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization).

But, whatever the type of talk therapy, the narcissist devalues the therapist. His internal dialogue is: “I know best, I know it all, the therapist is less intelligent than I, I can’t afford the top level therapists who are the only ones qualified to treat me (as my equals, needless to say), I am actually a therapist myself…”

A litany of self-delusion and fantastic grandiosity (really, defences and resistances): “He (my therapist) should be my colleague, in certain respects it is he who should accept my professional authority, why won’t he be my friend, after all I can use the lingo (psycho-babble) even better than he does? It’s us (him and me) against a hostile and ignorant world (follies-a-deux)…”

Then there is: “Just who does he think he is, asking me all these questions? What are his professional credentials? I am a success and he is a nobody therapist in a dingy office, he is trying to negate my uniqueness, he is an authority figure, I hate him, I will show him, I will humiliate him, prove him ignorant, have his licence revoked (transference). Actually, he is pitiable, a zero, a failure…”

And this is only in the first three sessions of the therapy. This abusive internal dialogue becomes more vituperative and pejorative as therapy progresses.

Narcissists generally are averse to receiving medication. Resorting to medicines is an implied admission that something is wrong. Narcissists are control freaks. Additionally, many of them believe that medication is the “great equaliser” – it will make them lose their uniqueness, superiority and so on. That is unless they can convincingly present the act of taking their medicines as “heroism”, a part of a daring enterprise of self-exploration, a distinguishing feature and so on.

They often claim that the medicine affects them differently than it does other people, or that they have discovered a new, exciting way of using it, or that they are part of someone’s (usually themselves) learning curve (”part of a new approach to dosage”, “part of a new cocktail which holds great promise”). Narcissists must dramatise their lives to feel worthy and special. Aut nihil aut unique – either be special or don’t be at all. Narcissists are drama queens.

Very much like in the physical world, change is brought about only through incredible powers of torsion and breakage. Only when the narcissist’s elasticity gives way, only when he is wounded by his own intransigence – only then is there hope.

It takes nothing less than a real crisis. Ennui is not enough.

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Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain – How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory Bellaonline, and Suite101 .

Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.

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The best way to interpret this dream is to start with the first symbol and try to interpret that. Then go on to the next symbol, and so on. Continually ask the question, “In what way am I experiencing this symbol in my life at this time?”

A Method for Interpreting Dreams in a Group
1. With the group leader presiding over the interaction, interpret two or three dreams using the following approach.

The Key Question Approach Leading to Heart Revelation (guided self-discovery):

a) Write the dreamer’s name on the top right corner of the blackboard so everyone can address him or her by name. Have the dreamer standing or sitting in the front of the room, available to answer questions from the group. (I use this method in my Christian University and Online Bible College classes, thus the reference to a classroom setting. If you are not in such a setting then you can substitute resources that you have at your disposal.)

b) The dreamer reads the dream aloud twice. While the dream is being read, someone writes on a blackboard the key elements and events of the dream, leaving space between each. If no blackboard is present, each member of the group should create a list on a paper for their own reference.

c) Ask the dreamer:
* “What was the key feeling in the dream?”
* “What was the key action in the dream?”
* “In what area of your life are you experiencing these?”
* This will give the dreamer and the group a reference point as to the setting of the dream, and what issue is likely being discussed. The answers to these questions can be listed across the top of the blackboard after the phrases “Key Feeling” and “Key Action.”

d) Beginning with the first event/element of the dream and continuing to the last one, listeners then ask questions like the following:
* What is the dominant trait of that person?
* What emotion does that animal represent to you?
* In what way are you experiencing (the event described in the dream) in your life at this time?

e) If the dreamer cannot come up with an answer to any of the above questions:
* Remind him to relax and tune to flowing thoughts, rather than analytical thoughts, thus moving from his mind to his heart.
* Have the group brainstorm (”heart storm”), offering suggestions of what the item in the dream might mean. These are listed on the board.
* The dreamer then comes to the board and draws a line through the ones that definitely do not ring true in his heart, and circles the ones which his heart leaps to, offering any interpretation God is revealing to him.

2. Break the class into groups of four to six and have them work for two to three hours on dreams of individuals within their groups. Follow the “Rules for Interpreting Dreams in a Group” given above. Instruct the groups to use “The Key Question Approach.” If they need help, they should raise their hand to attract the attention of the classroom leader to come and work with their group.

When the seminar/classroom leader is not assisting a specific group, he should rotate from group to group making sure things are progressing well in each.

Warnings About Dreams and Visions???
1. There are no warnings in the Bible to beware of your own dreams, with the possible exception of Ecclesiastes 5:3,7, which is probably best understood as a reference to “daydreams” since all other references in the Bible to “dreams” are positive. When one verse contradicts many others, you need to seek to understand that one verse in light of the volume of references on the other side of the topic.

2. The only biblical caution concerning dreams, then, is when you are listening to another’s dream. They may be trying to lead you astray, to go after other gods (Jer. 14:14; 23:16,25-27,32; Ezek. 13:1,7; 12:24 Deut. 13:1-5; Jer. 27:9-11; Zec, 10:2).

About the Author

Mark Virkler is with Christian Leadership University. CLU is a Christian University and Online Bible College offering Christian education including Christian counseling and Christian theology seminaries and offers certificates, undergrad, Masters, and Doctorates in the various Christian colleges of CLU.

We must model creativity, exploration, and experimentation. Teachers must plant the seeds of possibility within each student that lead to a process of inquiry. Teachers must find ways to inspire our children and young people. We need to evaluate past experiences and prior learning gained from life experiences and environment. We need to know what a persons interests and passions are. We need to help them set goals that will empower them in pursuit of their dreams. Every student is made capable and ready to engage in self-driven, self-directed, “enhanced coached” learning activities. A multi-cultural approach is the norm where there are high expectations for every student and teacher. The strength of diversity is celebrated and embraced. The classroom must become a team environment where children support each other and regularly work as individuals, partners, small groups, and whole class or team instructed activities.

The “Enhanced Coached” approach makes a point to operate in the northern educational hemisphere of the student motivation wheel as defined by Andrew J. Martin of the University of Sydney in The Australian Educational Researcher Vol. 30, Number 3, and Dec. 2003. The following bold terms are defined as “Motivation Boosters” desired by students. 1. Self-belief is high and students are encouraged to learn and stretch. 2. There is a learning focus and a value of schooling present. 3. Persistence is modeled and required as a given. Quitting is not an option. 4. Planning is practiced and perfected. 5. Study management is outlined, modeled, and embraced. Opposed to the following, which are all in the southern educational hemisphere of the student motivation wheel and defined as “Motivation Guzzlers” by Martin. 1. Anxiety 2. Uncertain Control 3. Failure Avoidance 4. Self-sabotage Teachers must adopt what I refer to as an “Enhanced Coaching Zone” mindset in order to focus the activities of students in the northern hemisphere of Martin’s Student Motivation Wheel on a daily basis. Teachers must be 100% engaged and committed to this model in order to elevate our children and young people to an enhanced performance level in the Arts, athletics, science, medicine, music, technologies, manufacturing, philosophy, Literature, engineering, architecture, etc. This commitment and model of education can lead to new discoveries and solutions to current problems and those that have not yet made themselves known. One mind is capable of great discovery and creation. One mind can make a difference. We cannot afford to fail to develop our greatest resource and human potential. Our future depends on a transformation in education. Our hope is in education and new learning. Our hope is in motivation and personal development. I hope is in new discovery. Our hope is in new businesses and new business models. Our hope is in preventative healthcare and wellness. Our hope is in new systems and products. Our hope is in giving and growing. We insure a transformation in education by taking responsibility for our own education, reinvention, and financial literacy. We insure the transformation of education by leading from the “Enhanced Coaching Zone.”

Kenneth Hobbs is an educator and personal development, performance enhancement coach. He earned his BA in History & Psychology from Oglethorpe University. He earned his AS in Science in Education and Social Sciences from Georgia Perimeter College. He is also dedicated to business coaching, as well as, distributor development and recruiting for Monavie. He may be contacted through his site at the following link. Go to: http://mymonavie.com/KennyHobbs

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Kenneth Hobbs is an educator and personal development, performance enhancement coach. He earned his BA in History & Psychology from Oglethorpe University. He earned his AS of Science in Education and Social Sciences from Georgia Perimeter College. He is also dedicated to business coaching, as well as, distributor development and recruiting for Monavie. He may be contacted through his site at the following link. Go to: http://mymonavie.com/KennyHobbs

]]> http://www.beechwood-centre.com/24/how-do-we-achieve-education-transformation/feed 0 http://www.beechwood-centre.com/32/the-true-meaning-of-depression http://www.beechwood-centre.com/32/the-true-meaning-of-depression#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:25:03 +0000 admin http://www.beechwood-centre.com/?p=32 Depression is arguably the single most common malady affecting society today. Like the common cold it affects young and old, rich and poor, blue-collar workers and white-collar workers, labourers and executives and colour or creed is no barrier; all are depression’s potential victims.

In medicine, Depression has various classifications that are given specific names, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Post Natal Depression, plus other terms such as, Manic Depression and a term not so common today, Nervous Breakdown. Manic Depression refers to a sufferer who alternates between very high moods and equally low moods. Depression in all its guises does not have a physical component, so can only be emotional complaint.

The first two mentioned types of depression take their names from the apparent source of the depression, particularly the second, but the essence of the complaint is the same, DEPRESSION, the victim is depressed and in extreme cases takes their own life – an act of total desperation.

So what is depression? Let us start with the word itself. A depression is something that is lower than its surroundings, such as a ‘depression in the road’ or in meteorology ‘an area of low air pressure’ and in this instance obviously surrounded by areas of higher air pressure. Similarly, when a person is feeling low in spirits they are said to be depressed, feeling lower than what is considered normal, a common enough occurrence after disappointments and losses, but if the feeling becomes chronic, more or less permanent, medicine labels its victims as suffering from Depression.

Without going into specifics, the chronic depression sufferer experiences any and every type of emotion and attitude to life that is negative, so the question, what is depression, will have to be left without a precise answer, but I will say this; anxiety, despondency and irrational fears prevail, which vary in degree and form from case to case. One person whom I helped felt that “life is not worth living” and was so despondent as to be suicidal, whilst another just sat there in front of me and started to cry. All I had said was, “How can I help you?”

The term Post Natal Depression, in offering a specific cause implies that it is a special kind of depression; it is different to any other form of depression, but to be blunt, that is nuts. Depression is depression is depression! Yet again, the term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in acknowledging that it is depression, implies that it is a unique form of depression caused by trauma, but that is nuts too, trauma is the ONLY cause of depression and whether the trauma was major or minor, is like beauty; it is in the eyes of the beholder. For this reason, no dictionary can define when an upsetting event becomes a trauma; the dictionaries just refer to it as an event having dramatic negative emotional effects.

The word trauma can refer to both a physical injury and an emotional disturbance and like depression it varies in intensity from case to case. Interestingly, as a slight deviation, every physical trauma, say a broken leg, has a corresponding emotional trauma. The physician can set the broken limb, but the emotional trauma remains. The depth of the emotional trauma governs the longevity of the healing process; removing the emotional aspect expedites the healing. To return to the main theme, what has to be taken into account as regards emotional trauma is the attitude of the individual concerned, so here is an analogy. A person is walking down the road when a dog starts barking at them and approaching in a threatening manner, so they pick up a stone, hit the dog with it, which then runs off yelping with its tail between its legs. Another rather timid person in the same situation will probably start quaking with fear. What is traumatic for one is a minor inconsequential inconvenience for another.

This does not negate the fact that some experiences are majorly distressing, but whether major or minor, without exception they all fall within the Mace Method’s definition of an Upset. This is defined as “ANY EVENT THAT A PERSON WOULD NOT EXPERIENCE BY CHOICE” and this definition is the corner stone of the procedure. It does not matter what happened in an upset or what the effects were that were generated, the Mace Method rapidly and permanently, totally eliminates all negative effects, in other words it permanently banishes depression no matter how it is dramatised.

Happiness and survival are synonymous and for any individual their own personal survival is paramount. Causism has identified two vital laws of survival and the very logical first law states, NO-ONE WILL EVER KNOWINGLY INSTIGATE ANYTHING WHICH THEY KNOW TO BE NON SURVIVAL FOR THEM. Law two states, ONE IS ONLY AFFECTED BY WHAT ONE IS UNAWARE OF. A person may remember some traumatic experience, but buried in their psyche are emotions from the experience that are hidden from recall. It is these buried emotions, which once located and discreated are the key to recovery.

A sub-law of Causism states ATTENTION FOLLOWS ATTENTION. As an example, if I start writing about shopping, your attention goes to shopping. Here are other examples: Football, horse racing, swimming and finally food. As each word is read it controls your attention and with food for example, you start thinking about food and the same applies to each word; a simple but important facet of life.

Another sub-law states, ANYTHING CHRONIC ALWAYS HAS MORE THAN ONE SOURCE, so whether you are suffering from depression or not, there will be other upsets to address, but the initial upset is the entrance point to getting your life back on track and many people only require a single session.

This brings us to the method itself, which is totally free of self-disclosure, in other words the client does not have to disclose anything about themself or what they have experienced. (See the Abuse article). The key is to locate upsetting events and that is done simply by talking about upsets, explaining what an upset is and if necessary repeating the word UPSET a few times. As explained above, as you read that you cannot help but have your attention drawn to some upsetting event from the past. If as occasionally happens more than one upset is recalled, do this, GO TO AN UPSET! Of all the upsets you have experienced in life, big or small, you have gone to a particular upset. The event that your attention is now on holds the key to the two most negative elements in your life and deep down, intuitively you know this and that is why your attention has gone there.

Locating the hidden elements buried in that upset will put you on the road to taking full control of your life, as per the mission statement, which is “TO ASSIST PEOPLE TO BE IN CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES AND LIVE THEIR OWN DREAMS.”

RESULTS “CHANGED THEIR LIVES”

Some Testimonals

DEPRESSION

I am writing to express my heartfelt thanks for my recent telephone session.

I am amazed at how my sense of absolute DESPAIR and DEPRESSION has been completely lifted and removed after your telephone session.

One minute I was back in the very worst feelings in my life and half an hour later I was watching TV with my wife and feeling completely normal. Incidentally I had felt completely overwhelmed several days before I rang you and in the blackest space imaginable, thank you so much, sincerely B.D. PERTH .

A lady suffering depression reported a year later after only one “MACE METHOD SESSION” “I have not had the slightest return of depression since and I do not need anti -depressants anymore” Thanks Rebecca QLD

I wish to thank you for the wonderful changes in my life since having that session with you. Over my life I have suffered with depression and anxiety. I’ve tried many modalities to heal and change this condition, which has plagued me; counselling, regression, group therapy, attitudinal healing, breath work, bodywork, psychology, John Bradshaw family therapy and co-dependence. They all helped to some degree but the depression still reared its ugly head. After one session with you the change is so profound that I have decided to train with you and become a practitioner, as it is the only modality that has completely eradicated my depression. Thank you with all my heart.

–B.M.

Note: Good as her word this lady is now fully trained and is helping many others

From a young mother who had lost a son and then a husband in tragic circumstances, she had been on anti depressants for 6 years. She wrote after a Mace Session “I feel like a new person, confident about who I am now, the depression has been lifted I feel as though I can handle anything that is out in front of me. I am a lot happier about life and living. G.L . QLD

POSTNATAL DEPRESSION

I wish to express my gratitude for the change in my health and well being since my session with you in early July. To give you a little background, I had suffered with Post Natal Depression since my first child was born seven years ago. After my second child was born two and a half years later I was experiencing severe exhaustion, panic attacks and anxiety. I was so bad that I was unable to cope with looking after the children and travelled from Melbourne to Perth , for help, from family, for a month to try and pull myself together. The depression, anxiety and panic attacks continued on and off for the next four years. I have tried everything from psychology, acupuncture, kinesiology and hypnotism to ease my anxiety. After my session with you I felt more confident and calm within. A lot of my anxiety was removed and I feel I can cope with any stressful situation over which I would previously panic. I also notice that my physical health and wellbeing has improved a great deal. Thank you John.

–Sincerely, J.S.

POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

A Policeman suffering post traumatic stress, who had not slept nightmare free for 2 years, the result of a shooting incident at work, he had even put a gun in his own mouth to end it all. He said on an International Website “One session of the Mace Method achieved what a long list of anti- psychotics and depressant drugs could not, I NOW SLEEP NIGHTMARE FREE. I once said I would sell my soul for one good night of sleep, I don’t have to sell anything, I will be eternally grateful THANKS To Dr John Mace

AN INDECISIVE CLIENT

A client comes to mind, she was a lady in her early sixties, she came to handle an inability to make her mind up confidently, causing her to be stuck in life. The upset we handled was a trauma, which happened when she was an eleven-year-old, their house was burned down, her young brother was burned to death, she carried his body out which was in a terrible state, quite a shock, trauma and loss for an eleven- year-old or anyone for that matter.

After her “Mace Method” session with all the negative feelings and negative Identities eliminated she not only said she felt great and free of the loss for the first time, but she realised she had always remained the eleven-year-old when trying to make decisions. She said, “You know I don’t think I ever grew up” . This bears testimony to the fact that we can really become stuck in a loss or shock and its confusion along with the negative feelings and emotions long after the incident.

Prior to the session she had been agonizing over a decision whether to re-marry or not as her husband had passed away six months before. She had had a proposal from an old friend who had lost his wife. Straight after her session she stood up and said “Of course I am going to marry him, I’ve known him since my school days, I couldn’t find a better man!” With all the negative effects of the trauma/loss gone she confidently made the decision easily. M. Taree

NOTE: This example proves every life problem has a “CAUSE” handle the cause with a Mace Session and the effects DISAPPEAR.

Once in a while a paradigm change of great importance comes along – The “MACE METHOD” is one of them. IMAGINE your life with no hidden blocks or limitations holding you back, also being able to remain optimistic, cheerful while enjoying a state of well being, plus enjoying the relationships you want. If you are not happy with your life you easily can be. Remove the negatives with the “Mace Method” and your true self will emerge with all your potential at your disposal. It’s easy and the results are permanent.

This new innovative philosophy of life is the answer to enjoying a HAPPY SUCCESSFUL LIFE. ‘CAUSISM’ embodies an equally life changing component called the “MACE METHOD” a new therapy. The Purpose of the Mace Method is “TO ASSIST PEOPLE TO BE IN CONTROL OF THEIR LIVES AND LIVE THEIR OWN DREAMS”

DEPARTURE FROM CONVENTIONAL THERAPY

In a total departure from conventional counselling, IT DOES NOT INVOLVE ANY SELF DISCLOSURE and ONLY REQUIRES ONE OR TWO SESSIONS; which can even be carried out over the telephone.

The Mace Method has absolutely nothing to do with religion, but having said that it is generally accepted that we are composed of three elements; mind, body & spirit. That concept is perfectly true as far as it goes, but what the Causism research has uncovered is that there is a fourth element that has been named an Identity. These identities are of two types; knowingly created pro-survival identities and unknowingly created NON-SURVIVAL identities. The former are known as Positive Identities and the second, Negative Identities. The negative identity is a creation of THE PERSON, which is a composite of the being and all of its accumulated identities, good and bad, as distinct from the being. Before causism came on the scene, there was total confusion as to the separateness of mind and spirit. Added to which, the existence of the missing element the identity, was unknown.

ROCKY OR UNHAPPY RELATIONSHIPS are a product of these negative identities, which stop you being your real self.

ANALYSING OURSELVES

This research has proven that trying to analyse or change our own unwanted emotions cannot be done and often only makes things worse.

Edward De Bono (A Famous Author) was correct when he said :

“Logic never changes any emotion or feeling. You can spend hours with logical argument trying to change some feeling or prejudice; you are not likely to succeed!”

Please enjoy exploring how this process can assist YOU IN BEING ALL THAT YOU WHERE MEANT TO BE!

IT IS SIMPLE AND UNIQUE in its PROCEDURE AS THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO PERSONAL DICLOSURE NECESSARY

Defintely a NEW PARADIGM!

Sherrie Hatfield

Mace Energy Method Practitioner/Trainer

www.themacemethod.com

www.macetrainers.com

About The Author

Sherrie Hatfield has been working and researching in the field of Higher Human Potential for more than 20 years. Starting her studies and research at a very young age in the field of human development of the whole being through early child care education, Sherrie got to personally prove that through the early formative years, ‘You give me the child for seven years and I will give you the man of tomorrow.’