Posted by Helena Smole in Phyllis Krystal method
on Feb 9th, 2021
It’s like rolling around in silk sheets,
It’s even breakfast in bed that it beats.
It’s telling you to start small
And in the course of the day enjoy it all.
There are many paths to get there,
Where the heart softens the care:
From CBT to Louise Hay,
From Phyllis Krystal to a forest in May.
Yet, when one feels the inner peace,
It’s like the first kiss.
One yearns for it all the time from then on,
The most, when it is fully gone.
The answer lies in the modest way,
In taking it as it happens day to day.
After all, inner peace is like sun,
Now there and then gone.
Take...
Posted by Helena Smole in Schizoaffective disorder
on Dec 17th, 2018
Any reasonable person knows, one cannot prevent destiny. Being a person with anxiety, however, I must remind myself daily that I can only do so much to prevent trouble. I am often swimming in worst case scenarios. I get sick and tired of trying to convince myself they will not happen. And when I chase them away, new appear. I am battling with a few of them right now. Yet, I do not want to share them, for I am afraid they could trigger anxiety in my readers.
Except the funny incident with the soap. I can share that much, I believe. I am too aware of viruses and bacteria, so I wash my hands too often. I...
Posted by Helena Smole in Improved self-image
on Aug 28th, 2018
Reading the Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I find that pride is not an esteemed quality in a person. I also remember reading about how pride is a vice and not a virtue in the Buddhist tradition. While Wikipedia for example states both a positive and a negative connotation of pride. What to do about pride then? It has dawned on me the other day, that what we need is to see pride as a spice. Only a smidgen of it will do. What do you think about that?
I find it hard to be proud of myself, even a hint of it. I just do not feel any of it. I can well be proud about others, but never of my own...
Posted by Helena Smole in Schizoaffective disorder
on Sep 4th, 2017
I have found out recently that my anxiety is in a way primary and the reason for it are secondary. How did I discover that? For every fear which appears in my mind I try to find a consolation. And when I soothe myself regarding one fear, another one appears. Some days I eventually calm down, but on bad days the train of fears is endless. This is, in my opinion, because anxiety is there no matter what the circumstances of my life are. And my mind attaches secondary reasons to anxiety. Sometimes I still feel anxiety, even when I have managed to mentally remove all reasons for fears. It feels like a...
Posted by Helena Smole in Schizoaffective disorder
on Jun 19th, 2017
In our Western world spirituality is excluded from schools. If you want your child to learn about the spiritual aspect of our being, you enroll the kid in Sunday school or a similar educational institution, which is usually organized by a certain church.
In other words, we have separated the world of science (primary school) and the world of religion (Sunday school). Some scientists are even trying to prove that there is no God.
On one hand, it is good to have secularized school, so that the church cannot exert too much power over people. And God has given us a brain capable of discovering and...