Rest . . . .the. . . .Mind. . . .Create. . .Some. . . Space

Good Day,  Everyone. . . .
Can you guess?  lol  I was just reflecting on Jim's most recent post. . Good advice. .   .  That is kinda what I've been doing.  Shortly after returning from the Christmas break I found myself racing on the proverbial tread-mill. . . .Like an old family member used to say (to get his flavor you need now to supply a French-Canadian New England accent. . lol ):  "Mister Man, I am so bizzy. . I meet myself coming and going! "  We never noticed that he did anything about it; he liked being "so bizzy, Mister man."

Jim's admonition to rest the mind. . .slow down. . .create some space. . . .stop all the hyperkenetic activity is important.   But if all I do is bow to the importance yet do nothing about it. . .if I do not actually stop and do something about my intellectual recognition. . . .I am just batting the breeze.

After Christmas being at home. . . .ahaaaaa. . . that was the culprit. . being at home where I really do slow down, make space and time:
Home on the Dunes just makes me do that.  I really DO chill out there. . .so when I resumed teaching two sections of Intro Psych, three days a week, plus my own classes in the doctoral program which includes actual reading, study, research, presentations, reports and papers due on certain dates, plus seminars and our group-therapy sessions, on and on and on. . .

Plus working at the clinic. . . you cannot put someone's crisis on hold until you get a "round tuit". . . hurting people need attention here and now. . . kinda like a hospital ER where one goes for immediate attention and care.  Also, as much as is possible, when someone comes asking for a specific person because they need you. .  . .they can talk with you. . . they trust you. . as far as humanly possible you do not "farm him/her out to a stranger: you deal with him. . . .ASAP.  

What good does all this do me or anyone else if I am unable to integrate this into my own life?  Haven't you noticed that this "Stop=Look=Listen" stuff posted in the personal relationships articles I have been posting, courtesy of Michael at Gaytwogether.com, really insist that we do stuff in fact, not just theory?  lol  I've noticed, too, these past weeks post-holiday that several times someones have included the awesome and oh-so-true
definition of insanity:  "Insanity is doing the same things over and over again, each time expecting different results."

As a beginning psychotherapist  I must actually work at all this. I must have a definite plan which I can actually work with, one which will fit into the real, the existential work-sitz I have created for myself.  Not doing this makes as much sense as kicking the desk in frustration because I do not DO the things I need to do for my own mental health, for enjoying what I am doing, and doing it with body, mind, and spirit in harmony.  "Physician, heal thyself".

So I have been working on time and space, on creating the leisure for living and loving, on "practicing what I preach".  That is why you haven't heard much from me personally lately.  I am working
on it. . .rest the mind and the body. . .create some time and space. .
doing my possible. . . and the like.  I am still learning.  ;-))

I will close with a little bit of humor. . . .recently one of the men in our therapy group called a member's new email addy to all of our attention.  It read. . Philip.therapist@yahoo.com. . . .Needless to say but I shall. . Phil changed his email addy.  LOL

~~~ JustinO