These 8 words in the Heart Sutra taught me how to cure anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder
Message: "No obstacles, no fear" comprehended these 8 words in the "Heart Sutra", no matter how serious the anxiety and compulsion will be.
A student asked, "Why is my OCD so hard to get better?"”
I don't know if you also have such questions?
In fact, not only obsessive-compulsive disorder, but also students with anxiety and depression also have such questions. The question then is, why are these symptoms so difficult to heal?
In fact, it is not that these symptoms are difficult to eliminate, but that there are some problems in our own inner cognition!
Why?
Let's talk about the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. I dare say,In fact, each of us often has one or two voices in our psyche. That is, we often have various thoughts in our minds. I told a friend about this before. He was amazed and said, "That's really the case." I already thought I was sick. So everyone is like that. I joked, "yes." The difference between us and the mentally ill is that we don't speak out, while the mentally ill do. "It's a joke, but that's how it behaves.
Everyone has many strange and unspeakable thoughts in their hearts. So why do some friends develop it into a psychological problem, while most people, like the one I said, don't become a problem because of it?Because there is a fundamental condition in this, and that is whether you want to "solve"!In other words, if you want to solve that thought and treat that thought as a problem, then it will largely become a problem for you. And then if you keep going, it will keep getting entangled with you and eventually develop into symptoms.
Actually,It's not that thoughts that haunt you, it's that we like to dwell on them. To like here is to solve it. When it can't be solved, it will be evaded and transferred. But the essence is the same, that is, it is entangled with it. In other words, the psychology has been "hanging" about it and thinking about it.
Therefore, the Heart Sutra says, "There is no obstacle, there is no terror." ”
Speaking of which, I don't know if you understand what I'm saying. As "Emotional Self-Help" says, the symptoms themselves are not a problem, and the thoughts themselves are not a problem. The reason why they are problems is because there is an extra catalyst in them - "solve", want to solve it!Without this catalyst, then they wouldn't be a problem. According to this line of thinking, it is not the symptoms or thoughts that are the problem, but our "solution" that is the problem. So there is a saying in psychology that a problem exists because it is solved.
I think that through this explanation, everyone should be able to better understand the meaning of this sentence.
So,Obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, depression, insomnia, in fact, these are all called "resolution disorder"!Because without this "solution", there would be no such symptoms.
Then some friends may say to me, "You really don't have a backache when you stand and talk." Do you think I want to solve it?It's not too uncomfortable, otherwise who would want to bother with it!”
Well, that's right. But I'm sorry,The mind has the laws of the mind. The more you try to solve it, the more you can't solve it. Why?A policeman who is a thief, do you still expect him to catch the thief?- Your problem comes from "solving", do you say you can "solve" it by "solving"?The more you solve, the more troublesome the problem becomes. This is why some friends have been battling obsessive-compulsive disorder for decades and are still pestering. It's not that OCD is too difficult, it's that it's too difficult to let him go and "solve". That's why Morita said to "go with the flow", that is, to ask you not to "solve". Got it?
Of course, I understand, it's not that I say that, you get it, you can do it and let it go. No. I'm providing you with a direction to understand the principles behind the methodology.
Enlightenment can be realized, and things must be gradually cultivated - and the same is true psychologically. It is recommended that everyone practice Xi the "Stopping Method" in the book "Overcoming Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" and do it slowly through things.