In my Neuropsych testing work, the useful, pragmatic results of the tests given are not usually used by themselves for decision making regarding the client’s condition, treatment, or other salient features.
They are always combined with a multitude of any other relevant information, including medical records, education, history and interviews, all incorporated into a search for patterns indicative of the client’s total prognosis.
As a therapist and healer, I find this search for a holistic and comprehensive view both useful and applicable in many areas of my work.
It meshes beautifully in applying T’ai Chi principles to all areas of one’s life, going far beyond the physical instruction and generating applications for the emotional and intellectual growth that may be engendered through our personal voyages forward through time.
For example, a tendency to sometimes fall forward, out of balance, physically, can be taken as our body’s language expressing a more general pattern of our letting our anticipations regarding the possible future, that which isn’t even here or real yet, affect our consciousness and throw us out of balance.
Sometimes these anticipations can be so subtle that we aren’t even aware of them!
The real Tai Chi may reside not in the physical, but in the awareness of our balance that is generated.
We can’t change what we aren’t even aware of!
Herein is the real value of practicing the form, meditating, or any other contemplative practice, if it aids in our ability to choose a more balanced path, say, for example, in our emotional or other balance.
Medicine for Ants
Ants, automatic negative thoughts, are, by their automatic nature, not so easily changed.
This is important because they affect our emotional balance.
As the computer saying goes, “Garbage in, garbage out.”
These can become habits.
Habits like smoking, snacking, assuming the worst, can often take more than a day to change!
The thoughts we take in, be they from the television or media, or from our assumptions about life events that aren’t necessarily correct assumptions, or from what we were taught before we knew better, all go into this mix!
It has recently been pointed out to me that Finding Positive Thoughts, and developing this as a new habit, can be a powerful medicine that might work to counter these ants.
As a therapist, these things, apparent when working with others, may often elude me when working on my own stuff!
To be continued…
Blessings to All,
Daniel
