Recovering the mental health of a country can only take place when truth, honesty and integrity manifest as helpful tools for seemingly complicated situations.
I am a holistic health counselor/practitioner now retired. This blog is my outreach to a hurting world in need of the best humanity has to offer. It is read in all 203 countries, territories and protectorates in the world.
It is possible to heal, to recover the personal power of each citizen, restore the fame and good reputation of the land, and the fortune of healing every country by mitigating climate change, improving air and water quality, and caring for all people everywhere regardless of land of origin, race, color, creed, gender, age, any other label of human limitation, and healing the hurting history of all involved.
When the fertile seeds of innovation, entrepreneurship, leadership combine with common sense, healing humanity and the world at large naturally occurs. If this is not occurring in your area in this one world we all live on, this is an opportunity to begin to refocus on building up rather than tearing down. Whatever we focus on grows.
It is not possible to kill enough people to even the death score, make an egotistical point of supposed righteousness, or annihilate every person on the planet, and still have a planet to live on.
It takes the cooling down of the insanity of dueling prideful egos. We see this when children act out as if fighting back is the only answer.
There is another way.
The other way to problem solving involves something every religion throughout all of history has stated in one form or another. Jesus also taught this. It is known as the Golden Rule.
Most religions all over the world have this rule in their belief systems. If we treated other people in the way we want to be treated, we would treat people with more dignity, empathy and compassion.
Healing begins when two or more people, or two or more countries decide that they want to advance humanity and build better tomorrows for all involved.
Notice the countries that work together on the International Space Station, ISS:
United States
Russia
Japan
Canada
European Space Agency, including 11 member countries:
Belgium
Denmark
France
Germany
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Another example of the countries of the world rising their sights above the worst that humanity has to offer to each other is the Boston Marathon. Citizens from over 100 countries participate in this yearly event.
Can you imagine the benefit to every person on the planet if greed in all its mind-altering addictions could be tamed?
Celebrating the birthday of my book publication with Blue Fortune Enterprises LLC, which is a publishing house, not a self-publishing company. This book has already helped so many people. This book would make for a thoughtful Christmas present.
This is on the back cover:
“Now is the time for courage. Courage does not mean having no fear. Rather, courage is feeling fear, but peacefully doing the right thing, the moral thing, with integrity, despite the presence of fear.
“She offers advice on how to know if you are in a cult (hint: many people are) and to live a full, balanced life.
“You can choose to have experiences of Light, joy and abundance, or you can choose to have experiences of lack, limitation, and depravity.
“With an impressive background in religious studies, Linda offers encouragement and guidance to seekers who know there is more to choose to bring light into their lives. Told with wisdom, humility, and love, this book is a timeless guide to living in the Light with God, free of manmade shackles of corruption.
“It is all about love, choosing love over all other dark and sinister energies in the smorgasbord of life. Everyone has free will to choose love or not love every single minute of every single day.”
The quote on the back cover is from a dear friend Reverend Medium Tracey Lockwood:
“Get ready to take a deep dive. Metaphysician Lin Hourihan offers a multifaceted perspective of who we are at the core of our being. Challenging preconceptions and lending insight on how to maximize our experience here on planet earth.”
Linda Hourihan is an international holistic health counselor/practitioner, former feature writer for the Milford Daily News, and Laconia Daily Sun, former owner of The Massage Clinic, and author of The Virtue of Virtues, Mystery of the Sturbridge Keys. She and her husband live in Massachusetts.
The following was delivered by Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on June 4, 2024 in a hearing to the Republicans in the House Judiciary Oversight Committee:
“My colleagues, none of this today that you are bringing makes sense. Your inconsistencies, your hypocrisy, your sycophancy, unless you are in a cult.
“And guys, I’m starting to think you are in a cult. That is your right, but it is not your responsibility.
“I promise you, that is not what your constituents would want.
“So if you believe in state’s rights, except when a jury in that state convicts your nominee for president, you might be in a cult.
“If you claim to back the blue but want to defund the police, when the police go to your nominee’s house to retrieve national security secrets, you might be in a cult.
“If you’re supporting a guy whose felony convictions prevent him from getting a security clearance, you might be in a cult.
“And if the guy you’re supporting for president has felony convictions that prevent him from going to
I have spoken with people who still believe in Republican lies and conspiracies as if they are truth. These people are still my friends “across the aisle” because I refuse to let a difference of political or religious opinion, even on such a weighty matter, stop our friendship. There is always hope for truth to prevail.
They believe the Republican indoctrination because these lies and conspiracies are still being proclaimed from pulpits of continued indoctrinations, both political and religious, and even in social groups in their secret meetings.
The inconsistencies, hypocrisy, and sycophancy are still found in the heartbeat of the Republican cult followers as if this would-be sinister and maligned Big Lie, duped by their fearful leaders, were true.
It is time to uncover all their covert deceptions because truth matters.
Have you ever wondered if you were wrong in your listening to false information and indoctrination?
It is time for human decency, truth, and honor.
It is time to shine a light on all lies and conspiracies. The people I have spoken with say that it is the Democrats who are lying to their followers.
If that is the case, say these lies and conspiracies out loud. Climb out from the heavy rock of your indoctrinations and peacefully prove your point. Most will not do this because their claims are so ridiculous.
Fear is a powerful motivator. But remember, fear is also an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. This is how cults work.
This election matters. Do not let fear of discovering that you are wrong stop you. There is more for you to know. Don’t let fear and/or embarrassment stop you from finding out the truth for yourself.
Do more research. It is possible to go to non-biased sources to check out your “facts,” such as mainstream news outlets: Reuters, AP, NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Bloomberg News, The Atlantic, and Politico. These are not left-wing, nor right-wing opinion news sources.
Allow yourself to hear something different, but don’t stop there. Allow yourself to ask deeper questions, like how this new information could possibly be true, without the negative spin you are used to hearing accompanying it. Try to understand viewpoints other than what is familiar to you. There is more for you to know.
The following was delivered by Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) on June 4, 2024 in a hearing to the Republicans in the House Judiciary Oversight Committee:
My colleagues, none of this today that you are bringing makes sense. Your inconsistencies, your hypocrisy, your sycophancy, unless you are in a cult.
And guys, I’m starting to think you are in a cult. That is your right, but it is not your responsibility.
I promise you, that is not what your constituents would want.
So if you believe in state’s rights, except when a jury in that state convicts your nominee for president, you might be in a cult.
If you claim to back the blue but want to defund the police, when the police go to your nominee’s house to retrieve national security secrets, you might be in a cult.
If you’re supporting a guy whose felony convictions prevent him from getting a security clearance, you might be in a cult.
And if the guy you’re supporting for president has felony convictions that prevent him from going to
When you have done all you can possibly do to keep yourself and your family safe during this coronavirus pandemic,
Is my anxiety serving me?
worrying about it solves nothing. You and I both know this. So how do we step out of fear from obvious threats that surround us?
Here are some mental health tools that work 100 percent of the time.
They will not work if you mentally argue against them. In this post I am asking you to put aside any negative thoughts such as, “This doesn’t (can’t, won’t) work,” and “I’ve tried this before,” and “My situation is different,” and “I have been diagnosed with depression (trauma, Autism, any other mental health label).” As long as we hang our hat on our special reason for why we are the way we are, we seldom seek to apply the mental health tools that alleviate stress, anxiety, panic and panic attacks.
Stop hanging on to the reason you are the way you are. Instead, cling to the time-tested words that have helped so many people rise above the crippling drama that can shut you down.
Let me repeat that these mental health tools work 100 percent of the time. Try them out for 21 days. It takes 21 days to change a habit. It is sad to see in today’s society how we more readily grab onto labels of dysfunction as opposed to labels that help us move out of dysfunction. It does help to have a starting point, as long as that starting point does not become the reason you do not decide to move forward to improve your mental health. Yes, we have to deal with the mental health challenges, just know they are not insurmountable.
MENTALLY
“Remember, only your beliefs about yourself can affect the way you feel … only your thoughts can affect your emotions.” Dr. Dolores Seymour
People who did not listen to the labels that were put on them include Walt Disney and Albert Einstein. Disney was told by a newspaper owner to pursue a line of work other than drawing because he didn’t have any creative ideas. Einstein’s schoolmaster told him he would never amount to much. Neither one of them stopped their dreams because of labels that were imposed upon them. They heard the labels with all their limitations, and went ahead to create their own life.
If you have a diagnosis or label others or you give yourself, know that you are not limited mentally, physically or spiritually by these labels. They are not a justification for the way you are. What you have is a unique set of circumstances that you work with, not that define you, even if you are in a wheelchair.
It helps to realize that you decide for yourself what is right or wrong. Others can tell you what is right or wrong for them, but they cannot tell you what is right or wrong for you because they are not in your shoes. It all depends on your perspective to determine what is right or wrong.
“The choice is yours. Today, every day, can be an adventure as you turn crises into opportunities.” Dr. Dolores Seymour
Change your daily goals based on today’s circumstances. Perhaps you had set goals to diet, exercise, go to work, plant a garden, do project with the kids, and paint the house last month. This month you are faced with a global pandemic, social distancing and quarantine and not knowing whether or not to go out in public as businesses open and your inner self is revolting from staying inside. What do you do?
Mental health is important no matter which course of action you take, stay inside or go outside. Whatever you decide, even if it is to stay inside because you just learned that children do in fact get COVID-19, but show it with different symptoms, you still come to ground point zero. How are you going to mentally handle this? It was not in your original plan.
Change is the only constant in life. Go with the flow. Fighting change is a no win battle, like attempting to stop an avalanche careening down a mountain while valiantly using a snowboard to resist it. Stop fighting change and figure out the best way for you to snowboard down that mountain. Staying stuck will immobilize you.
Try this plan instead:
1. Stop all negative thoughts that come into your mind. Stop the blame. Stop the guilt. Any time a negative or anxious thought comes to mind say CANCEL.
2. Know your limitations and work with them. If you have triggers that send you spiraling out of control, learn to recognize them. The sooner you see them manifesting in your day, the better you will be able to deal with them. You are in control of you, not your limitations. You are in control of your feelings and emotions, no matter how strong and scary they feel. Your feelings and emotions are not in control of you. You are very powerful. Whatever you tell yourself, you will be. When you learn to validate and know yourself better, you will be able to decide how you want to feel. The choice is yours. Feelings, emotions and moods follow thoughts ALWAYS. It is never the other way around.
IF YOU DO NOT LIKE HOW YOU ARE FEELING, CHANGE HOW YOU ARE THINKING.
3. Say a positive statement, also known as a mantra, that will help you stay focused on your new mental health plan. This works, unless you use your free will not do do it. Say this positive statement often throughout the day, on the hour each hour, or use triggers like, each time you touch a door knob. Say this simple statement of affirmation in the positive, such as, “I am a positive person,” not “I am not a negative person.” Say this mantra even if it is not how you are feeling. If you concentrate on how you are feeling (what I call belly-button gazing), you will keep feeling how you are feeling. Feelings are not right or wrong, they just are. But only focusing on how you are feeling at the moment is like walking round with your feet stuck in buckets of cement, expecting to magically feel better. Drop the negativity. Choose a mantra of how you WANT to feel. Start the statement with the words “I am …”
Positive mantras to choose from if you can’t think of any are:
I am happy
I am content
I am at peace
I am whole
I am able to do this
I am confident
I am in control of me
I am in control of my thoughts
PHYSICAL
You and I have choices and decisions to make. If you and I do not make our own choices, others will fill in the void and make them for us. Do you want to be more fully in control of you? You can be, no matter your past history. Your previous history is not your destiny.
It is interesting to know that any positive changes you decide to make in your life do not have to be done with over-the-top drama. You can peacefully make the changes you wish to make. Once you decide to act rather than to react to life, peace will flood your life, even in the midst of this pandemic and other people’s drama. You become the captain of your life ship. You no longer are the shipmate of ship-wrecked emotions and meltdowns.
Sometimes, many people around you will not know exactly how to respond to the new you. People do not like change, most like the status quo. You might find people trying to put you back into the box you just got yourself out of. Others are not in charge of you. This also does not have to be confrontational. You do not need to match their emotion, frustration nor outrage. You can remain emotionally level and simply be the new you.
Decide on how you wish to improve your physical health, even if it is just to go for a walk or a less populated park, go for a ride in the car for a sight-seeing adventure, or do stretches inside your living room.
Maybe you are an introvert and would like to improve your diet or physical health independently. There’s nothing wrong with that. Validate where you are, set goals, improve your oxygen intake and go at your own pace. Setting goals for each day and week will get you to where you want to be. Go at your own pace.
Your body is supported by the tripod of life, mind, body, spirit. You need all three to be healthy for a whole and productive life. Without one of these healthy legs to support you, you fall down. Make sure to take good care of each one of them.
SPIRITUALLY
You and I each have our own walk of faith and beliefs that have gotten us this far in life. We need faith to feed our soul. People who live life without attention to their spirit/soul will gravitate to the materialistic and consumeristic things in life in a misguided attempt to fill the void in life that only God can fill. Some of us have deep spiritual lives. God is the only one that can fill this part of us. We can have interests in painting, music, sports, friends, but all of these interests, as fulfilling as they are, are no match for how God can fill a soul who is ready to embark on that spiritual journey.
Find a good book on prayer and meditation. At this time of social distancing, online prayer meetings and social gatherings for meditations or spiritual community outreach are recommended.
As good as social settings are for friendship, individual prayer feeds the soul the best. After all, it is an individual journey we are all taking here on earth. We are born alone, thanks to the grace of God. In the end of our life, we go back to God. Now is the time to foster growth in getting to know the Creator of all love, faith and hope. If there ever was a time for faith hope and love, it is now.
All of these mental health tools are drugless therapies. You can do this.
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