Facets of a Diamond – Blog

I would like to practice true Psyche-atry.

Psyche is from the root BHES – to breathe. The Greek psukhein, to breathe gave us psukhe, soul. (The Latin halare, from the same root, gave us inhalation and exhalation – and halitosis.)

The word safety comes from the Latin salvus and it means to be healthy, whole, uninjured therefore without fear, without stress. When you feel safe, you have no fear and therefore no stress.

This relates to meditation, in that it has been said that the feeling of meditation is like the feeling of going home: a

Katherine was breastfeeding her first baby, Alice, who was just a month old. We discovered that the baby was disappointed (stomach meridian[1]).  I see so many people who are disappointed, and this may be where it begins, back at the first few weeks of life and back to breast feeding.

In his book,

The cardiologist proclaimed that his most important role was to allay each patient’s fear of his heart – of being attacked by it.

I’ve long advised suffers to listen to their hearts – and give thanks.

Every day in my still meditation I repeat these – shall I call them prayers?

May I be
a clear channel
for Your healing.

and

Help me
to help You
to heal.

and

I open my heart
to those who want
healing through me.

Then in my mind I go through a whole list of countries and of many of the

When as a medical student I tried to study biochemistry, I became overwhelmed by the hundreds of equations and diagrams. They were so confusing because they seemed not to make broad sense. There seemed to be no overall perspective, just so many little independent facts.

I spent nearly a year preparing a large master flowchart showing

Psychoanalysis, and all the other psychologies, are concerned with what I call the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate. All the effort is to reduce the hate and so increase the love.

But always there will be some hate remaining, never only love. Never transcendental.

They do not Know that there is a Deep Unconscious

Bill had lost twenty five pounds in weight, but, strangely, his belly seemed larger than ever. He asked me what he could do about it. My first hunch was that there was a weakness of the abdominal muscles, but I could not find it on examination.

Yet there must have been a problem. When I asked

Every day at the end of my meditation I sing: Thank you, thank you, thank you, you all.

To us he is no more a person
now but a whole climate of opinion
under whom we conduct our different lives.
- W.H. Auden, “In Memory of Siegmund Freud”

Freud’s most important contribution: all our activity, mental and physical, is determined by our unconscious. Our decisions are never really based on logic.