Hello fellow traveller!
We’ve been taught how to get better wrong.
We’ve been taught to ask the professionals and then follow their instructions.
This is wrong because you can’t turn responsibility for your health over to anyone else. You can pay a health professional to give you treatments or advice, but not to take responsibility.
Your MindTree makes you go to the health industry because it’s afraid that the ache in the left side of your chest and back could be a serious problem. It’s scared you might die.
Your MindTree devises a strategy to help soothe that primal fear: you’ll go to the “authority” and get reassurance.
The health professional then says something like, “Well, because you’re a 48-year-old female, you are low-risk for heart disease. But it’s extremely important that you get a breast and colon cancer screening.”
In this type of scenario, played out thousands of times a day worldwide, the patient becomes sicker.
Because, instead of getting reassurance, you get more survival fears. Now your biological system launches more special biological programs (symptoms).
When you go get that symptom checked out, the health professional doesn’t speak to your MindTree. He or she doesn’t even speak to you.
The health professional speaks to a statistic, a demographic.
This is how healthcare causes metastasis. People go to the health industry to try to feel better, and they leave feeling confused and sicker.
The problem is that the health industry is mechanistic. It operates from ideas developed in classical mechanics, hundreds of years ago.
In “standards of care” and “controlled acts,” there are cause and effect, linearity, bodies as assemblies of parts. And no inherent meaning.
The health industry doesn’t understand the true nature of the psyche, the brain, or the body. It has no idea of the existence of the MindTree.
It doesn’t see an individual who has suffered a conflict and is seeking resolution. Instead, it sees “perimenopausal” or “overweight” or “colon cancer risk.” It sees a statistical likelihood of a certain pathway toward death in a certain number of years.
Thanks, Newton and desCartes, but this doesn’t make us feel better. And feeling better is our real goal.
The closest thing to the MindTree in modern parlance is the psychology idea of the ego. The ego’s been around for thousands of years, in both Eastern philosophy and in Western philosophy via ancient Greece. It’s been formalized in the past century particularly with the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud in the 1920’s.
The ego is a protective mental barrier we create for ourselves. It’s a put-together image of ourselves that we present to the world and hide our true selves behind.
Though your ego exists “only in your mind,” its purpose is to protect you from forces that can harm you. If you destroyed your ego, you would also destroy your personality, your boundaries, and your ability to relate.
We can think of the MindTree as the “ego” of the psyche, brain, and body. Your entire biological system.
Without it, you would not be alive on this Earth.
Contrary to conventional Western health and spiritual philosophy, you don’t want to kill your MindTree (or your ego). Instead, you want to understand why it’s giving you pain (bad thoughts, feelings, and anatomical changes).
Your MindTree is trying to meet your needs through these symptoms. If you met those needs some other way, say through conscious application of logic, there’d be no need for the symptoms.
The key to this “conscious application of logic” business is knowing that there is a MindTree …and there is the individual who has a MindTree.
That individual is the true self who is indivisible. It is a complete and perfect thing, with or without a body, a brain, psyche, ego, or MindTree.
That true self is completely happy, completely whole, and completely without fear. It is not just the source of health, it is health.
Those moments of joyous abandon during childhood when you let go of all responsibility and experienced complete presence and unconditional love? That’s the real you.
But you must have the protective filter of your MindTree when necessary. It’s what takes care of business in those moments when your physical self needs to do a little extra to stay alive.
Sure, your pain and suffering will go away if you kill your MindTree. But your true self, without protection, will be like a beautiful infant child left in the middle of a cold desert. It won’t long be alive on this Earth.
What if you could keep your protective MindTree for when you need it, but somehow let it go the rest of the time? What if you could count on that Loving Protective Adult to be there whenever you need him or her, so that you could again live with that joyful vigour that you once knew?
You can.
All you have to do is understand that every symptom exists to protect you from a specific danger. Whether it’s a thought, a feeling, an ache, a belief, an emotion, or a pain, each symptom is a special biological program with a real purpose. These symptoms – collectively, the MindTree – are the protective gatekeepers against these real dangers. They keep the battle outside you, away from your true self.
But with the help of your special biological program, you can properly solve the problem. That’ll let you get right back to the joyful irresponsibility of being your true self. Once the conflict or threat is resolved, you can fling open the gates and let life pour into you and let your true self pour out into the world.
In other words, what you want to fix, kill, resolve, make friends with, or otherwise address…is your problems, not your MindTree.
And that is what I am here to help you do. Hit “reply” and let me know your thoughts.
Be well.
Lishui Springford
Seize control. Feel better.
