State Recovery Conference-Create

I attended the state recovery conference in Columbus, Ohio Wednesday and Thursday last week (might have noticed the foto drops on the gallery page was early?). Two breakout sessions were about creative activities,namely writing and the therapeautic effects. I hear the same thing, read the same; gonna write? Write every day. Whatever? Nothing to write about? Write about that? I am a specialist (tested) to do both addictions andmental health. There is a governmental/societal movement to stop looking for differences and find the similarities. It is working. Finland for example has the program called Open Dialogue. Guru Dan Fisher has brought it to the U.S., Boston at first. Does it work? Finland's number is 1/10,000 for the severe and persistent illness, the psychosis known as schizophrenia. Most countries' numbers are 1/100. There is a lot of good stuff to be had, to get and give to keep it going. Anyway writing is very therapy-rich. Remember the phrase "precocious dementia?" Lit. meaning; early dementia. Writing and reading both are positive contributors for dementia's positive prognosis amongst other things. Early and late whatever, it works. I usually get anxious before, go, give it my heart, and come back rewarded, refreshed, and ready to tackle the field. Did it again! Hey. It is all about people. In my area of the state the biggest "hard question first" is well-being. We are making gains in a recovery that addresses everyone's well-being. We had the hurdle this year that our advocacy group for the state had to fold before the conference. It was picked up from a lot of hands, multitudes to help. (Let go. Let go and let your Higher Power be the Higher Power. Get outside of yourself. I took copious notes to share, plus PowerPoint notes. Wake up. Give it away to keep it. "Karma" comes back around.

I have been journaling again. You are surely worth three sheets of paper and time to fill them w/ your brain's thoughts for an amount of time. Yes. And if no one has told you today they love you. Consider I just did. Return hate w/ love. ... Return love w/ love. Pretty much, ... return everything w/ love. My OCD says now; lovingkindness. Be grateful for G_d for He is good. Healing Power. I attribute it to journaling; years of brain dump onto the pages. Next Right Move yields Progress. If no one has said I love you this week, consider it done. Find some supportive people. Keep trying. One person, five, ... . Find your tribe in these days. You cannot do it alone. It is unhealthy. Find the good fit! Find well-being. Then give it away. That is it. That is the only way you keep it. Lovingkindness to you.

Want an exercise? My father, on his third retirement has taken up the task of saying "I love you." ... to three different people; someone from his family, someone he knows, and someone he doesn't know. This is the father I had in the Peacenik Days of the Sixties. He had taught at Kent for four years, then the Tragedy. Then he was told by certain people, "No more sandles. No more sideburns." The dress code was being reinforced like a piece of Nationalist Socialists (not the same as democratic socialists.) paranoid controllers' moves to a societal nightmare of their utopia. The idea that lives were last, a counterculture got bunched up a notch. Now we were anti-counter-counter culture problems. Okay hippie-writers at heart; freedom of expression; Say "I love you" to someone. To someone who needs it. Right. Anyone will do. Can you get outside of yourself. Self-centeredness and dishonesty are the two biggest precursors for a suffering soul. Make someone happy. Choose happiness yourself. Then ... write!!!

Do something fun, unusual and out of the ordinary. Something that won't hurt anyone, including yourself. I am listening to the complete amount of works of Bjork, Icelandic musician, avant-garde. I heard the Sugarcubes, listened often. This is terra incognita, and I am amazed. It is like David Byrne goes to Scandanavia or something. Art like music is. This gets me out of a minor depression like anything. The idfea is I get new images, new images mean change, meaning things can change like depressive thoughts, nip it in the bud!!! Then ... write!!!

I get fascinated w/ words. I have been studying Dutch regularly. What has come up is the idea of "rules." W/ vowel and consant shifts from language to language something w/ resolution and sense in the wrold comes to play. What? Okay, examples. Look at this word group seeing the similarities we share. Rules. Regal. Regulations. Royal. Rectify. To right. Rey (King in Spanish). Leye (Law/lord in the Romance languages). Dereche (Spanish-Right). See the similarities. Vowel/consanant shifts open th edoor to "cognates." These are words across the barriers/boundaries of languages that intuitively make sense. Etymologies, developments of languages. Integration of other cultures w/ others make their mark in the timeline of living language, so to speak. Go out and get fascinated w/ something. Worth doing? Worth writing about? Go. Trust yourself. Free yourself. Liberate yourself. Then ... write!!!