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Thursday, 5 November 2009
Most Concise Magic Words
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Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Scrupulosity When Ocd Targets Your Religious And Moral Values
Marian's example of scrupulosity is one of many variations a sufferer may have with this type of OCD. Sometimes individuals with scrupulosity aren't religious but feel hyper-responsible to their moral standards. The fact is that once in a while, religious individuals may experience doubts, guilt, remorse and even some anxiety. However, after talking to their church leaders, religious believers are able to come to terms with their challenge, make amends, and move on.
On the other hand, scrupulosity sufferers feel stuck. They need constant reassurance from others and themselves. They feel as if they are going "crazy." Their thoughts don't match their values. They feel "impure" and sinful.
Unfortunately, misinformation and misunderstandings may delay their treatment. According to the International OCD Foundation, it can sometimes take between 14 to 17 years from the time OCD begins for individuals to access the right treatment. Quite often, scrupulosity sufferers create their own rituals to decrease their guilt and anxiety. They don't realize that their incessant need for reassurance and forgiveness are OCD symptoms.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy that includes Exposure and Response Prevention is the preferred mode of treatment for all subtypes of OCD, including scrupulosity. Your treatment provider will teach you the appropriate skills to overcome it. You can also take steps toward change right now, by recognizing your negative thinking patterns and adjusting your daily routines:
* ALL-OR-NOTHING/BLACK-AND-WHITE THINKING.This type of thinking may lead you to look at things in absolute and extreme categories. For example, people may believe they need to follow their religion perfectly. Otherwise, they believe themselves to be sinners and unworthy of God's blessings.
* INTOLERANCE OF UNCERTAINTY.When individuals suffer from OCD, they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty related to their target obsessions. They are constantly seeking reassurance. They believe that "one day" they'll have it 100 percent figured out. This goal seems perpetually to elude them.
* EMOTIONAL REASONING.People view their emotions as if they were facts. They may use their feelings to prove to themselves that their fears are true or may come true. For instance, a person may feel anxious and guilty every time he attends his church or synagogue. He uses those feelings as evidence that he is a sinner, otherwise why would he feel that way?
* THOUGHT-ACTION FUSION.Some individuals believe that having a "bad" thought is the same as acting on the thought, or that their "bad" thought will come true. When their religion teaches individuals that impure thoughts are sinful, their anxiety escalates and they struggle to decrease this thinking pattern.
* BELIEF THAT YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS.Sometimes sufferers also experience sexual or harm OCD. Once a young woman who agonized over her "impure" thoughts felt triggered during a psychotherapy session. She began to hold her temples while shutting her eyes tightly. The therapist asked what was wrong. She responded, "I can't let them out. If I do, I'll have a panic attack!" She wrongly believed she could control her thoughts. Eventually she learned that suppressing her thoughts was actually triggering her panic attacks.
* INFLATED SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY.When individuals experience moral or religious scrupulosity, they express a pure desire to behave in a manner that will be pleasing unto God and beneficial to those around them. They are hypervigilant when it comes to behaving righteously. They believe they are the ones responsible for preventing any harm to those around them.
To help you start making changes, consider the following:
* Are you following the tenets of your religion or are you letting your obsessions and compulsions get in the way of living it? How are you using your God-given talents and gifts? Are you developing skills to bless the lives of others? Cultivate your spirituality by focusing on what matters. Plenty of research confirms that when individuals serve others, their brain chemistry changes and they feel happier. Don't let OCD get in the way of serving and living your religion.
* Remember to surround yourself with those you love. Anxiety and guilt may get in the way of enjoying your loved ones. At the end of the day, what is it that God will care the most about? Will it be your following your rituals to perfection or your relationships and what you did for your fellow beings?
* Take care of your physical body. Many sufferers get so caught up with their thoughts, worries, and rituals that they forget to take care of their physical well-being. God loves you and desires for you to have self-compassion. The research is clear: appropriate sleep, physical exercise, and healthy eating will help your body feel better and clear up your mind.
* Trust God. Remember God's love for you and that He knows who you are. He is all-knowing and He knows you need to work on decreasing your rituals to live happier. Trust that He will understand. Ask Him to give you the inner strength to trust and follow your treatment provider's directions.
* Do you remember what it was like before OCD entered your life? Most likely your religion and faith brought you happiness, peace, and calm. That's one of its purposes, isn't it? God doesn't want you to be anxious and live in perpetual guilt. He doesn't expect you to be perfect. You are a mortal being!
Dieter F. Uchtdorf, a religious leader, once told his congregation,
"please first doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith." This advice applies to scrupulous sufferers as well. Whenever you have doubts, notice if you are creating negative thinking patterns.
Don't make assumptions based on your anxiety. Remember that when you are doubting and feeling anxious, it's most likely OCD. Educate yourself and seek the proper treatment so you can start feeling the love and tranquility your faith is meant to bring into your life.
Source: new-generation-witch.blogspot.com
Sunday, 1 November 2009
Dunsany Lord Tale Of London A
by Lord Dunsany
"Come," said the Sultan to his hasheesh-eater in the very
furthest lands that know Bagdad, "dream to me now of
London."
And the hasheesh-eater made a low obeisance and seated
himself cross-legged upon a purple cushion broidered with
golden poppies, on the floor, beside an ivory bowl where the
hasheesh was, and having eaten liberally of the hasheesh
blinked seven times and spoke thus:
"O Friend of God, know then that London is the desiderate
town even of all Earth's cities. Its houses are of ebony
and cedar which they roof with thin copper plates that the
hand of Time turns green. They have golden balconies in
which amethysts are where they sit and watch the sunset.
Musicians in the gloaming steal softly along the ways;
unheard their feet fall on the white sea-sand with which
those ways are strewn, and in the darkness suddenly they
play on dulcimers and instruments with strings. Then are
there murmurs in the balconies praising their skill, then
are there bracelets cast down to them for reward and golden
necklaces and even pearls.
"Indeed but the city is fair; there is by the sandy ways
a paving all alabaster, and the lanterns along it are of
chrysoprase, all night long they shine green, but of
amethyst are the lanterns of the balconies.
"As the musicians go along the ways dancers gather about
them and dance upon the alabaster pavings, for joy and not
for hire. Sometimes a window opens far up in an ebony
palace and a wreath is cast down to a dancer or orchids
showered upon them.
"Indeed of many cities have I dreamt but of none fairer,
through many marble metropolitan gates hasheesh has led me,
but London is its secret, the last gate of all; the ivory
bowl has nothing more to show. And indeed even now the imps
that crawl behind me and that will not let me be are
plucking me by the elbow and bidding my spirit return, for
well they know that I have seen too much. `No, not London,'
they say; and therefore I will speak of some other city, a
city of some less mysterious land, and anger not the imps
with forbidden things. I will speak of Persepolis or famous
Thebes."
A shade of annoyance crossed the Sultan's face, a look of
thunder that you had scarcely seen, but in those lands they
watched his visage well, and though his spirit was wandering
far away and his eyes were bleared with hasheesh yet that
storyteller there and then perceived the look that was
death, and sent his spirit back at once to London as a man
runs into his house when the thunder comes.
"And therefore," he continued, "in the desiderate city,
in London, all their camels are pure white. Remarkable is
the swiftness of their horses, that draw their chariots that
are of ivory along those sandy ways and that are of
surpassing lightness, they have little bells of silver upon
their horses' heads. O Friend of God, if you perceived
their merchants! The glory of their dresses in the
noonday! They are no less gorgeous than those butterflies
that float about their streets. They have overcloaks of
green and vestments of azure, huge purple flowers blaze on
their overcloaks, the work of cunning needles, the centres
of the flowers are of gold and the petals of purple. All
their hats are black --" ("No, no," said the Sultan) --
"but irises are set about the brims, and green plumes float
above the crowns of them.
"They have a river that is named the Thames, on it their
ships go up with violet sails bringing incense for the
braziers that perfume the streets, new songs exchanged for
gold with alien tribes, raw silver for the statues of their
heroes, gold to make balconies where the women sit, great
sapphires to reward their poets with, the secrets of old
cities and strange lands, the learning of the dwellers in
far isles, emeralds, diamonds, and the hoards of the sea.
And whenever a ship comes into port and furls its violet
sails and the news spreads through London that she has come,
then all the merchants go down to the river to barter, and
all day long the chariots whirl through the streets, and the
sound of their going is a mighty roar all day until evening,
their roar is even like--"
"Not so," said the Sultan.
"Truth is not hidden from the Friend of God," replied the
hasheesh-eater, "I have erred being drunken with the
hasheesh, for in the desiderate city, even in London, so
thick upon the ways is the white sea-sand with which the
city glimmers that no sound comes from the path of the
charioteers, but they go softly like a light sea-wind."
("It is well," said the Sultan.) "They go softly down to
the port where the vessels are, and the merchandise in from
the sea, amongst the wonders that the sailors show, on land
by the high ships, and softly they go though swiftly at
evening back to their homes.
"O would that the Munificent, the Illustrious, the Friend
of God, had even seen these things, had seen the jewellers
with their empty baskets, bargaining there by the ships,
when the barrels of emeralds came up from the hold. Or
would that he had seen the fountains there in silver basins
in the midst of the ways. I have seen small spires upon
their ebony houses and the spires were all of gold, birds
strutted there upon the copper roofs from golden spire to
spire that have no equal for splendour in all the woods of
the world. And over London the desiderate city the sky is
so deep a blue that by this alone the traveller may know
where he has come, and may end his fortunate journey. Nor
yet for any colour of the sky is there too great heat in
London, for along its ways a wind blows always from the
South gently and cools the city.
"Such, O Friend of God, is indeed the city of London,
lying very far off on the yonder side of Bagdad, without a
peer for beauty or excellence of its ways among the towns of
the earth or cities of song; and even so, as I have told,
its fortunate citizens dwell, with their hearts ever
devising beautiful things and from the beauty of their own
fair work that is more abundant around them every year,
receiving new inspirations to work things more beautiful
yet."
"And is their government good?" the Sultan said.
"It is most good," said the hasheesh-eater, and fell
backwards upon the floor.
He lay thus and was silent. And when the Sultan
perceived he would speak no more that night he smiled and
lightly applauded.
And there was envy in that palace, in lands beyond
Badgad, of all that dwell in London.
Origin: wizard-notes.blogspot.com
Name Round Up The Names We Give Ourselves
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
A Historical Religion Or Nothing
Jesus, the Son of God, was born of a virgin, at a particular time and in a specific place. He was God and man. He was crucified for our sins, but rose again the third day. The incarnation and the resurrection are not metaphors but actual, historical events. A man or woman cannot reject their historicity and remain a Christian. To accept the message of Christ, the teaching, the ethics, the example, the human perfection of Christ, is not enough. It is necessary to accept the Godhead as well as the manhood, to believe that the incarnation and the resurrection actually occurred. Without them, Christianity is nothing; it becomes a mere fantasy, a delusion.....
The late nineteenth- early twentieth-century notion that the New Testament was a collection of late and highly imaginative records can no longer be seriously held. No one now doubts that St. Paul's epistles, the earliest Christian records, are authentic or dates them later than the A.D. 50s. Most scholars now date the earliest gospel, the so-called "Q," not later than about 50 A.D.; Mark, 65 AD.; Matthew and Luke from the 80s or 90s; John not later than 90-100.Some scholars, notably the late Dr. John Robinson, put them considerably earlier: Mark possibly as early as 45 A.D., only a decade and a half or so from Christ's passion; Matthew, between 40 and 60; Luke, 55-60; and John possibly as late as 65 A.D. plus, but possibly as early as 40.
I doubt if there is any serious scholar alive now who would deny Jesus' historical existence. Indeed, He is much better authenticated than many secular figures of antiquity whose existence no one has ever presumed to question.....
.... What is clear beyond doubt is that whereas in the nineteenth century the tendency of history was to cast doubt of the veracity of Judeo-Christian records and to undermine popular faith in God and His Son as presented in the Bible, in the twentieth century it has moved in quite the opposite direction, and there is no sign of the process coming to an end. It is not now the men of faith, it is the skeptics, who have reason to fear the course of discovery.
However, the historian, whether he be a Christian or not, must emphasize that the vindication of the New Testament records as authentic documents describing actual events concerning a real man does not in any way "prove" that He was God too, and that the incarnation and resurrection actually occurred.
All that it establishes is that men and women who lived at and shortly after the time believed these things.....
Thanks to Tom Gilson for the reference.
A Historian Looks at Jesus
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
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Saturday, 24 October 2009
Spring Has Sprung
Pagans all wrecked the world be glad the Stem Equinox. Day and Dusk are equal. The fund equinox is sacred to dawn, teenage years, the crack of dawn star and the east. The Saxon goddess, Ostara / Eostre (whose name we get the direction East and the holiday Easter) is a dawn goddess, to the same degree Aurora and Eos.
The month of Troop contains holidays brawny to all the improve mother goddesses: Astarte, Isis, Aprhrodite, Cybele and the Virgin Mary. The goddess shows herself in the blossoms, the grass on the grass, the growing of the crops, the mating of fowl, the actual of immature nature. In the unindustrialized move forward, it is time for planting. We are explicit that life momentum embrace.
Set off are one of the symbols of Stem in the same way as they be a sign of new life and might. Seeds are to the same degree frogspawn. In the function of frogspawn hold the decision of new animal life, seeds abstract the might of a new installation.
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