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How to Keep Your Mental Health for Sure
Many people believe that our dreams are only a representation of what happened to us during the day or a disorganized collection of images without any purpose.
However, recent discoveries in biology, neurology and psychiatry, which are related to psychology and the interpretation of dreams, have revealed to us that the interpretation of our own dreams helps us prevent and cure depression, neurosis and worse mental illnesses, because the wise unconscious mind that produces our dreams is the same one that creates the behavioral programs which exist in all animals.
These programs allow wild animals to survive in their dangerous environment even when they are still young, since they have many natural enemies. Even before learning how to defend themselves, they already "know what to do" when they see an enemy or when they are hungry and they have to pursue and attack their prey: These behaviors are instinctive.
The organization of the behavioral programs and the organization which exists in dreams is the same.
As a matter of fact, everything in the nature of our planet is very well organized, exactly because there is a superior brain that organizes everything, otherwise we would live in a chaotic condition.
This superior brain sends us many dreams in order to protect our mental health from the attacks of the wild side of our conscience. The wild side provokes paranoia, dementia, hallucinations and various other disturbances to the human conscience, which in turn becomes totally absurd and unable to control the person's behavior.
The unconscious mind has a saintly character and its wisdom is beyond any doubt. Its guidance is always correct and it can cure any disease, mental or physical, if the dreamer precisely follows the directions they receive in their own dreams.
If you want to acquire mental health, and live peacefully and happily for life, you must first of all eliminate the wild and violent part of your brain and psyche.
You cannot kill it of course, because this is a live part of you. This is the animal that exists inside you, even though you ignore its existence. The anti-conscience, your primitive conscience that didn't pass through the process of consciousness that your human conscience passed through, is an active part of your personality.
This is your wild side, and your human side has to tame it, otherwise the anti-conscience will always bother you and the worse, it will always try to destroy your humanity through craziness.
Your dreams provide you psychotherapy and counselling, exactly because you need them very much! Alone, you'll never be able to tame the beast and reach wisdom, while with the help of the unconscious mind in your dreams, you are going to easily see all the points that have to be improved and corrected, instead of wasting your time searching in the wrong direction and doing the wrong things.
I see from the dreams that people send me to interpret, and from their biographies, that they are too immature.
For example, a young lady who was very sad, told me in her first message that she wanted to die. Later she told me that she was thinking about having a baby. Perhaps it would help her feel needed - she imagined that she would feel better by feeling needed because she was feeling despised by everyone.
What do you think about her idea?
I think that she really needs a psychologist. Fortunately she can find one, the best one, interpreting her own dreams.
If a person has suicidal thoughts a baby would be a disaster in their lives. Only those that don't have kids may imagine that a child can help someone ready to die have courage to live... The baby needs too much care, support and caution in the beginning. Then it makes too much noise, it requires too much attention, etc. and it is the mother, especially, who is always responsible for it.
Even a woman, happily married, feels tired with a new baby, and sad with the alterations in her own body. Post partum depression is very common.
So, if a person is not emotionally strong, the responsibility for another life can only provoke despair.
The joy and the happiness of having a child is not enough to help the depressed mother forget her pain in her constant preoccupation and occupation with the baby.
People make many mistakes in their judgments and their thoughts are quite immature. Everyone needs the guidance of the unconscious mind, exactly because everyone can easily lose their human conscience.
The various deceptions in a person's life only help the anti-conscience destroy the human conscience through craziness.
This is why everyone must care about their dreams and respect the wise guidance they receive from the superior unconscious mind.
Many times we cannot see obvious mistakes and many times the small mistakes cause very big wounds.
This is why the wisest decision you can make today, after learning how important your dreams are and how dangerous the wild side of your conscience is, is exactly to care about your dreams and take notes, interpreting them with the unique scientific method that exactly translates their meaning, so that you may preserve your mental health for sure.
Prevent Depression and Craziness through the scientific method of Dream Interpretation discovered by Carl Jung and simplified by Christina Sponias, a writer who continued Jung's research in the unknown region of the human psychic sphere
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Science and Your Long Life Brain
Let's start with the bad news about brain aging and then see why, for the vast majority of us aged forty-five or older, it's really not bad news after all!
As we age our brain changes.
For one thing it shrinks.
In youth it weighs around 1.5 kg (approximately 3lbs) but by the time we celebrate our 65th birthday its weight may have dropped to 1.2 kg.
Furthermore the natural gaps between the folds of the outer layer of the brain - the neocortex - widen and two large spaces within the brain (the ventricles) also enlarge.
Unhelpful structural changes also take place, including the spread of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, the latter formed from the remains of dead brain cells. Since the density of neuritic plaques is directly related to a decline in mental ability and since both plaques and tangles are implicated in Alzheimer's disease, this is potentially very bad news indeed.
Finally, from early adulthood onwards we lose brain cells, especially in the crucial frontal regions, responsible for most of what makes up both our unique individual personality and our intellectual ability reside.
So, you may be asking, where is the good news?
Well, for a start, neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles are by no means an inevitable consequence of aging. Studies of people who have lived well into their nineties, for example, have found no trace of them.
What about brain shrinkage and cell loss?
Surely such physical deterioration and the death of millions of posmitotic (i.e. irreplaceable) brain cells must have a drastic effect on function.
The reassuring answer is not necessarily.
It is certainly true that brain cells die in large numbers every day from around the age of twenty onwards, with some 50,000 perishing daily and contributing to the shrinkage of between 10 and 15 percent, described above. Fortunately we have such a superabundance of cells, estimated at 100 billion, that even this seemingly high rate of attrition is of no practical significance provided we protect those billions of cells remaining through a health promoting lifestyle.
Furthermore some parts of the brain continue to grow throughout life, the dendrites (thread like extensions of the neurons which make contact with other cells) are continuously replaced. So too, recent research has shown, are some of the neurons in regions crucial to forming, retaining and recollecting memories.
Just a few of the reasons by previous pessimism among many gerontologists (specialists in ageing) and neuroscientists specialising in brain aging, is giving way to optimism and an increasing acceptance of the idea that, with good housekeeping, the brain can continue to function healthily and at a high level far, far, longer than was previously believed.
What do I mean by 'good housekeeping'?
Certainly more than just challenging the brain with mental workouts, vital as those are.
While constant intellectual stimulation, based on the familiar 'use it or lose it' approach to maintaining a long life brain is a necessary - indeed essential - precondition to what I have termed braingevity, such an overly narrow approach cannot, on its own, maintain the brain in peak condition and slow the consequences of aging.
A holistic approach that takes account of such health promoting - as opposed to a life limiting - aspects of lifestyle - is no less important.
The key factors here include enjoying adequate sleep and continued social involvement, a sensible diet and regular, vigorous, exercise, the ability to relax deeply and manage stress efficiently, the capacity to remain hopeful and the determined to stay optimistic even in the face of loss and adversity.
By signing up for the Brain Gym you will be taking one important step towards helping ensure you are the proud possessor of a long life brain. By reading my advice in our monthly magazine Grey Matters and watching my video downloads Ask Dr David you will be able to receive continued concise, practical, advice on all the other aspects of good brain housekeeping described above.
Remember that I, and my team of scientists from Mindlab International, are here to help and guide you through the sometimes tricky but always rewarding task of living a good, long life - with the emphasis on good and long.
As the poet Robert Browning put it: "The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made."
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