Because I need it.
I am now 36 years old and I still have Traumata from my childhood I need to heal in order to live a normal life.
So there is no turning back for me.
Ether I heal or live in misery.
I have a choice and I choose to heal.
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Try to meditate about that again after reading this excerpt from my journal.
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All the best to you
I wish you power for your way
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I love this perspective, and feel that it’s in line with a non-dual view of life rather than an oppositional “must crush my trauma” mindset.
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Unleashing our invincible demons may be the only way to “defeat” them. Like say social anxiety stemming from being bullied in the past may get resolved by unblocking our social aptitude, going out and being accepted and “loved” by people.
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I’ve arrived at a similar conclusion. Trying to attain some pinnacle of perfect healing was ironically born out of the trauma. The only individuals who consistently feel they need to do more to feel whole are the hurt ones.
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It’s weird working on our own issues while it seems like the world is collectively going crazy
The world is going crazy precisely because people need to work on their issues.
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Straight up. It’s wild to me how some people will actively SHAME individuals for expressing their desire to heal from trauma. With that toxicity weaved into society it’s no wonder so many people have unresolved issues.
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In what I’ve read from the 48 Laws of Power so far, it makes sense that people do that.
People tend to respond more favorably to those who fix their issues in private. Something about how revealing too much of yourself actually diminishes your power and respect.
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The world is going crazy because most of the time people make up their issues or let others do it for them.
1…2…3… who’s gone crazy the world or me?
What does the fool care about power? Power means order, and his domain is unbridled chaos.
What does the devil care about respect of those who he’s come to bury in hell?
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Meanwhile I am fixing my hindrances step by step
Exactly, step by step. I would gladly jump into destroying my other hindrances with Primal Seduction and Libertine but first things first: DD for social freedom, RM for freedom of self-expression and feeling all feelings. 
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Holocaust, the Colonialisation era and Global Imperialism, several World Wars, Mongolian Expansion. Those are just a few lines on a very long list. These all happened in the past. Was the world less “crazy” then?
I think the main difference is that, compared to in previous eras, the average person now has the ability capture more of these events in the form of video-recorded evidence.
The suffering of the average individual used to go unrecorded and often unremembered.
No, I’d have to say that ‘warts and all’ things appear to be moving in a positive direction.
We’re probably just learning, as individuals and as societies, to get used to a higher level of accountability. That does not equal things getting worse; it equals things growing more transparent.
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This is a good point. Another relevant point is I live in the US. That is my perception of the world. I can’t speak to other countries. So maybe I don’t see the lack of craziness. It’s very scattered here, no real unification. States might as well be entirely separate countries with different cultures. As people address their internal issues there’s massive clashes. Just human trauma ping pong balls bouncing off each other.
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I see now that when you use the term ‘craziness’ you’re referring to chaotic disunification and a lack of social order and collective harmony.
That’s fair.
I would agree that those specific elements have been on the increase.
I just don’t take them to correlate easily with an overall worsening of the world.
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100% we live in very fortunate times. But I’ve found that can often be what causes these deeper issues to be hand waved away. Kind of like a nuclear family. On the outside looks ok ish, but a lot of dysfunction underneath
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Why do you insist on projecting onto people? His healing is his own; your comment is ‘superfluous’.
Calling someone’s healing ‘superfluous’ should be flaggable, smfh.
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