Warning for people with a mental illness: Do not try any of the techniques mentioned below, without consulting your psychiatrist first. It might not be the right time for you yet. As Louise Hay repeatedly points out: »The point of power is always in the present moment.« But what about the past? Should we just forget about it? Surely it would not be wise to think about the past all the time and thus miss the exciting present. But we can learn from the past by analyzing it, when we reserve special time for analysis – now and then of course, not too often. I analyze the past in my daily meditations...

And an onion consists of layers: Layer 1: My Thoughtful and Careful Character In itself it is not problematic, as long as I do not exaggerate. I believe it is the layers below that make me exaggerate. Layer 2: My Diagnosis – Schizoaffective Disorder My psychiatrist was successful at giving me the right medication for quieting down the bio-chemical aspect of worrying more than 10 years ago. However I believe a mental patient needs to take care of other aspects of mental illness as well. To cure my mind I did a lot of mental work next to taking medication. See the next layers below. Layer 3: Playing...

There are a lot of methods of dream interpretation – I use the Phyllis Krystal method. In this method we assign special importance to reoccurring dreams. I have been having a very unpleasant dream for over a decade. It appears in slight variations, but the core story is always the same: I pack my bags, for I am leaving some place for good (moving to another town). I find it very hard to leave things at the place where I used to live. They are always some very old and completely useless things like old clothes I will never wear again or old newspapers, sometimes even some rotten food. So I keep...

In my previous blog I wrote about the last session of Phyllis Krystal Method training program in October 2010. I described a ritual that we did at the seminar. First we examined the problematic roles that we play in our lives in one meditation. In another meditation we cut the ties to the most problematic role. Those who have read my previous blog probably remember that I cut the ties to the role of a people pleaser. May I add that we were really diligent in October. We did another cutting of the ties at the same session of Phyllis Krystal Method training program. Firstly, we examined our bad habits in...

I have promised to write a blog about the Phyllis Krystal Method Training Program, Session 2, which took place in Munich from the 28th till the 31th of October 2010. In Phyllis Krystal Method we cut the ties to people and things that control us. Many times we are not aware of the control some people or things have over us, but with this method we can explore the controlling ties in detail. When we then cut the ties to a person, his or her control over us stops, but it also works vice versa – we stop our control over him or her as well. Thus we can all become free. Freedom means that we are in contact...