Commentary
Everyone should do therapy, but there’s a big difference between self therapy and professional therapy.
Self Therapy
By the grace of your own power, you have the ability to provide emotional and physical care—it just takes practice, a few well-developed moral character traits, and patience. While you are developing your emotional intelligence, logic, and physical intelligence skills, you can ask for help from your support group. Those are your friends, family, and even animals. If you don’t have a strong support group, join Internet communities dedicated to self help. As a last straw, turn to professionals when all else fails.
Professional Therapy
Treatments may or may not work, and that depends (for me) on the dimension of reality. Regardless, in our reality, the treatment is perpetually more profitable than the cure. No offense to those in the medical field, whether it is mental or physical, but sometimes I distrust professionals for this reason. A business wants to have return customers, and it’s hard to ignore that. If we teach children how to start on their self care skills, the cure dispenses itself at the earliest stage. This is why I am building this program. It’s also why I work as a teacher outside of typical institutions, not because what they teach isn’t useful, but because they gloss over the most basic lesson that everyone needs on a survival level: emotional intelligence.
The Prison
Why aren’t you taught emotional intelligence as an essential subject throughout the most crucial developmental stages of your life? There are two objective reasons: there’s just too much difficulty regarding educational organization, or there are people who don’t want you to know.
Kicking aside the organizational theory, let’s focus on the control of knowledge. Knowledge is power, and the best prison is one without walls. Mass amounts of people are easier to control if their access to knowledge is limited, if their fear is fomented, and their beliefs are funneled. The idea of limiting beliefs is a convincing way to keep people in the prison of their own mind.
This is true for any validation sought outside yourself. This is what people mean when they say look inward. It reminds me of a modern-day parable that I call The Gift Analogy.