Mental

Pieces of Truth

Deb Brock Mental, Spiritual , , , ,

Most people who know me have already heard me say time and again that “truth is safe…it doesn’t have to be easy or likable, but it is always safe”.  Not only is truth safe, truth is vibrant and evolutional.  Truth is never stagnant.  The trick is to trust the pieces of truth as they come to us. Consider this easy formula: bits of truth lead to big truth, big truths lead to full truth. Truth is often incremental, this way.

Incremental truth or, pieces of truth are like stepping stones over a rapid river.  They serve as a passage over a space that is too large to jump over all at once.  We know we want to get to the other side where the larger or full truth resides, but we have to take it one step at a time.  Otherwise we never get across the river or we might drown trying.

Most of the time truth is emotionally discovered, but that doesn’t mean that the initial emotion is the final truth (one stepping stone does not get us across the wide river).  If we are too afraid to explore pieces of emotional truth as we experience them, we run the risk of stagnation because we might not like the moment of emotion we are experiencing and stay on this side of the river, or we do like the emotional and misinterpret it as the desired shore line.

Sometimes the big truth is too much for one giant leap. By trusting the small bits, we become enabled to face the big ones.   When we step on one truth stone at a time, we can more readily trust the next stone upon which we step and then the next, until we have crossed the river.  Looking back, we can see how clear the passage was.  But such is the beauty of truth, it requires trust and boldness to move forward without knowing the full of it at the onset.  Truth will, when acknowledged, give us a broader view, a wider perspective, and more room in which we can discover what comes next.

Trust truth.  Truth is honorable. Truth will always lead you forward.  Cool!

~Dr Deb

Mindfulness: the Here and Now

Deb Brock Discovery, Mental, Spiritual, Uncategorized , , , , ,

July 19, 2013

Here and Now, i.e.  mindfulness:

I had a client (mother of a young child) ask me today if I had done “mindfulness stuff” with my kids.  I laughed and told her how we started a nude beach once and then suggested that it probably counted as mindfulness training.  Mindfulness, or self-acceptance and understanding, as I call it, has been around for a long time.  Mindfulness, of course, is about being present in the here and now.   I like to think that the Creator initiated mindfulness when s/he declared of herself “I AM”.  Whoa! Talk about self-awareness!  You can’t get more Here and Now than I AM.

Pretty much every day with one client or the other, I stand up and write the words
“here and now” on the middle of my white board.  Then I add an arrow going to the left  in front of the word “here” and another arrow going to the right following the word “now” (scribble it on a piece of paper so you can see it).   At the end of the arrow that goes left I write Hx (historical) and at the end of the arrow that goes to the right I write Ft (future).  I tell my clients that we are always safe in the Here and Now, which is the only place breath exists.

When we live in the past we dwell in depression, when we attempt to live in the future we swell with anxiety. There is no depression, nor is there any anxiety in the Here and Now.  It isn’t possible.  Depression is always based on the fantasy of “if only” while anxiety is based on the projection of “what if”.  Here and Now is the only place we can breathe and be the I Am that we are.

~ DocBrock