's message: "There is no worry, no fear." After understanding these 8 words in the "Heart Sutra", no matter how severe anxiety or compulsion is, you will definitely be able to recover.
A student asked: "Why is it so difficult for me to recover from my obsessive-compulsive disorder (anxiety disorder)?"
I wonder if everyone also has this question? In fact,
is not only for obsessive-compulsive disorder, but also students with anxiety and depression also have such questions. So the question is, why are these symptoms so difficult to get rid of?
In fact, it is not that these symptoms are difficult to eliminate, but that there are some problems in our own inner cognition!
Why do you say this?
talks about the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. I dare say that in fact, each of us often has one or two voices in our hearts. That is to say, we often have various thoughts in our minds. I have told this to a friend before. He was amazed and said, "That's true. I used to think that I was sick. It turns out that everyone is like this." I joked, "Yes. The difference between us and mental patients is that we didn't say it." , and the mental patient said it." Although this is a joke, it is like this in performance.
Everyone has many strange and ulterior thoughts in their hearts. Then why do some friends develop it into a psychological problem, while most people, like the friend I mentioned, do not develop it into a problem? Because there is a fundamental condition here, that is whether you want to "solve" it! In other words, if you want to solve that thought and treat that thought as a problem, then it will become a trouble for you to a large extent. Then if you continue, it will continue to entangle with you and eventually develop into symptoms.
In fact, is not that idea that entangles with you, but that we like to entangle with them. Like here means to solve it. When cannot solve the problem, it will escape and transfer. But the essence is the same, that is, struggling with it. In other words, I have been "concerning" it and thinking about it in my heart.
So the "Heart Sutra" says, "There are no worries, so there is no fear."
At this point, I don't know if everyone understands what I am saying. Just like what is said in the book "Emotional Self-Help", the symptoms themselves are not a problem, and the thoughts themselves are not a problem. The reason why they become problems is because there is an additional catalyst - "solution", wanting to solve it! Without this catalyst, they wouldn't be a problem. According to this idea, is not a problem of symptoms or thoughts, it is our "solution" that is the problem. Therefore, there is a saying in psychology that problems exist because they are solved.
I think through this explanation, everyone should be able to better understand the meaning of this sentence.
Therefore, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, depression, and insomnia are actually called "solution disorders"! Because without this "solution", these symptoms would not exist.
Then some friends may say to me, "You really stand and talk without pain. Do you think I want to solve it? It's not too uncomfortable, otherwise who would bother with it!"
Well, like this That’s right. But I'm sorry, the mind has laws of the mind. The more you try to solve it, the less you can solve it. Why? A policeman who is a thief, do you still expect him to catch the thief? ——Your problem comes from "solution". Do you think you can "solve" it through "solution"? The more you solve it, the more troublesome the problem becomes. This is why some friends have been fighting obsessive-compulsive disorder (anxiety disorder) for decades and are still struggling with it. It’s not that the obsessive-compulsive disorder is too difficult, but it’s that it’s too difficult to “solve” it. This is why Morita therapy says to "let nature take its course", which means that you don't have to "solve" it. do you understand?
Of course, I understand, I’m not saying this. Once you understand, you can let it go. no. I am providing a direction so that you can understand the principles behind the method.
There can be sudden enlightenment, but things must be gradually cultivated - the same is true in psychological recovery.It is recommended that everyone practice the "stop method" in the book "Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" and slowly do it through things...
