Think about it for a minute. What’s the definition of normal? What’s the definition of crazy? How do you treat crazy? Is it curable? Can you treat normal? What does any of it mean, anyway? Jokes abound everywhere about being crazy, like, “Sometimes the voices in my head tell me some good stuff” (I’m paraphrasing - something like that, anyway), or “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re NOT out to get you...” or “You’re never alone with a schizophrenic...” Have we laughed at these things? I admit I have, only because we’ve also always teased about ‘hearing things.’ But face it - everybody ‘hears’ things, don’t they? When you read, can you hear the words in your head? When you reach for an unwashed piece of fruit can you hear your mom telling you to wash it first? Or you get into the car and hear your dad telling you to buckle up? The list goes on and on.
As a society, and a culture, probably around the world, there are difficult standards for what’s considered normal. Abnormal things are often feared, medicated, shunned. But not everything that’s not understood is ‘bad’. I know that for a fact. But when IS it harmful? I think it’s walking a razor’s edge. I think if you have a hard time discerning what’s ‘real’ or not you may be in some trouble. If you ever ‘hear’ anything that’s disturbing or scary or violent, it definitely is NOT coming from a place of Light, and you should definitely seek professional help. I have been working with all of this ‘beyond what the eyes can see’ stuff for over 20 years now. I’ve gradually opened up and grown and researched and meditated and discovered and figured it out at a SLOW pace. Sometimes I think people want to have it all NOW, so they catapult into some tricky waters and find themselves over their heads. It’s like going out in a rowboat on the lake, liking it, so renting a huge yacht and setting sail into the open waters. No. Not a good idea. Start slow, get acquainted with the water, and navigation, and your ability to steer your ship. Please. I am almost begging you.
I have seen mental illness disguised as intuitive abilities, and I think that may be partially true, but if you don’t know the difference between a chemical imbalance in your brain and genuine openness and awareness of the greater possibilities around us, you WILL get in trouble. I am seeing it in people right now. These are intense times - a lot of ‘stuff’ is coming up, and sometimes it may feel easier to just jump to a place that seems to offer solace and peace, and that place is usually outside of us. Some run to drugs, others drinking, others are falling into severe mental illness. Medication? Yes, if that will help alleviate some of the mental anguish that comes from being out in the middle of that vast ocean in a raging storm and your sail has just ripped, and you don’t know the first thing to do to help save yourself.
I will help you all I can. Trust me on that. I send out healing and support and strength 24/7 these days. If people e-mail me I do it immediately. We can do that for each other, and it’s very helpful. But more than that, I want to encourage you to start your journey on the lake where it’s safer. Start small and work your way up as you get more confident and knowledgeable. There are no books for this, though many have tried. This is an individual thing, and again, all I can do is encourage you to take it slow. Practice simplifying your mind and your life. Work on releasing stress and worry from your life (I am NOT a hypocrite - these are my two most trying areas), take time to meditate, breathe, have fun. Get to know yourself.
While I do not think Western psychology has cornered the market in ‘curing’ mental illness, I definitely think there’s a marriage between East and West. I am a strong advocate for trusting your intuition. Everybody is intuitive, but we need to know ourselves and how we work in order to facilitate our highest skills. There are no shortcuts. There’s nobody that’s just instantly ‘got it’ and is rocking it. Why? Because we’re here in physical form, and it’s dense and heavy and frankly, it takes work to get the hang of rocking our earthly existence. That’s what I think. This is all just what I know and what I think. But please, please, if any of this makes sense, consider it. I love you all and want you to be happy and successful and mentally balanced and grounded. It IS possible to be spiritual AND integrated AND clear-headed. And that is most definitely NOT mentally ill. It is mentally healthy.