Jul 19
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ENDING THE “DOUBLE BIND”
WHY ARE WE HERE?
A double bind refers to a simple psychological concept whereby, an individual or group regularly receives two contradictory, yet insistent messages, with each message negating the other, creating mental and emotional tension and stress.
When the double bind is continually reinforced from within by the two separate hemispheres of the human mind, one tending toward the negative or “NO” kind of resistance, the other tending toward the positive or “yes” kind of acceptance, we have a conflict, which can lead to unhealthy stress and health issues. *
Neither hemisphere is “right” or “wrong,” neither is “good” or “bad” AND there are several ways to bring them into balance, into an Integration of the Mind©2014 SHS Publishing-Burnaby, BC a Brad Cullen book, still available on Amazon.Com (please note I’m not trying to sell books) – and this one may not work for you, anyway and that’s the point …FIND WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!
Ultimately only you can choose what that may be for YOU! Brad doesn’t know squat about you, but there is an expert within YOU that does and sometimes I can help some people so that TOGETHER we find their own expert within.
Another thing that may work for you is Brad’s Mindfulness Concepts …a set of basics I share at every BCA Small Group Meeting so that people can create their own brand of Mindfulness practice.
Please use the link at the bottom of the page to access an article I wrote about five years ago, but explains pretty much how the small group meeting process I started almost sixty years ago came into being and still produces seeming miracles, for some people sometimes.
Please be careful not to judge the words I use by what those words mean to you, try to understand HOW I’m using them so you don’t resist what I’m saying based on a false premise …if you want to have a better understanding of what I mean, rather than react to your meaning, WRITE your comments and questions to: Brad@BradCullenAssociation.com
Here’s one of the undergirding principles of Brad’s Mindfulness Concepts: Your own brand of Mindfulness creates awareness, AWARENESS (not knowledge) CREATES CHOICE …intellectual knowledge rarely leads to AWARENESS because of the double mindedness syndrome created by the two differing hemispheres of the mind.
Lastly, one example of a dual message that can lead to a double bind: “THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!” is one part and the other is: “…What if thinking IS the box?”
Here’s the link to my old article: http://spiritualhealingsource.com/?p=7293
* The latest neurobiological research suggests that each of the trillions of cells in the human body is an integral part of the mind and has a “mind” of its own, including memory and that both the heart and the brain are processors and receive instruction from each of these cells and.