How to get around delusions

[Charles]

The question asked, at the start of this thread was: How to get around delusions.

I am not schizophrenic, so I don’t really know how to answer that, though I do plan to try.

All of us here who have responded to your question, are doing our best to help you, and to do no harm.

But realize that we are not professionals.
And you are also encouraged to remember that we are each approaching you with less than complete or perfect enlightenment.

You are under No obligation to share the details of your audible thought hallucinations, especially if any such recall causes you any sorrow or worry or upset. Do only what You Feel is Best For You.

You know of your schizophrenia, and that is good news. That is your conscious Self being aware of the problem. I think that remaining conscious is your best defense, so I’ll tell you how I manage that.

I define myself as an immortal soul, temporally living in a human body upon this planet. Our Selves (aka our Souls, or our Higher Selves) are not bogged down in ego or fear or anger.

Negative thoughts belong to the mind, and Not to the Soul.
You Are An Immortal Soul.

Sometimes in meditation, I am able to temporally turn off the verbal noise of my mind. But otherwise my mind is a constant babble of nonsense, and sometimes that nonsense is vicious and negative and angering and frightening.

A lot of my mind nonsense seems to become nasty when I’m out walking the dog. This should be a pleasure, but sometimes a remembered anger towards someone who hurt me when I was 14 years old may decide to arise, and I walk along feeling furious. Or sometimes a frightening and violently negative future possibility, may be imagined in great detail, and I walk along feeling terrified.

But then, I become conscious.
Then I remember that I Am An Immortal Soul.
Then I remember that I Am In Charge Here.
And then I realize that I Can Observe My Mind From A Detached Distance

Silly nonsense is allowed, but destructive nonsense is not.

I control my mind first by detaching and observing it. And then by drawing a big Red X right over it. I hold that X there as I feel myself calming down. I allow a peaceful calm to enter my heart, and then I manage to laugh, or at least to smile. But I think visually.

That may work for you, but if you think audibly, then maybe music would be better for you. Try singing a happy tune. Or hearing enjoyable music. Or humming it. Emphasis here on the happy. Sing a happy song aloud, or within yourself. It can even be a joyful baby lullaby you may recall. Remember that You Are An Immortal Soul, and that You Are In Charge Here, and allow that happy tune to bring you comfort and clarity and joy.

If you like, you may then try laughter. Light does put out the darkness. Joyful laughter is Light.

Mandela would never have been successful if he hadn’t forgiven his oppressors and his jailers. Forgiving creates peace. Forgiving lifts a very heavy weight off your shoulders. Forgive your mind.

Treat your mind like an annoying roommate you live with. Don’t get angry with it, just treat it as the hallucination it is, and overwhelm it with joyful song, or with laughter, or with a big red X, Or In Any Other Way You Feel Comfortable With.

Become conscious and detach and observe. The more often you do this, the easier it will become.

And that is my thought. Though how correct a thought it may be for you, I don’t know. If you would like to run this by your therapist, then do.

While your mind is calm and clear, you may spend some time now recalling happy songs or calming music, so it may be more easily accessible if and when the need presents itself.

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Also, it seems to me that you have become confused, or perhaps a bit obsessed, or perhaps a bit distressed, about much of the exhaustive detail within the structure of the Law of One.

Remember that we on this forum often manage to disagree among ourselves over many particulars, and much of the minutia, within the writing of LoL. None of us knows everything.

I died when I was 25 years old, back in 1974 (car “accident”).
I remember being in a round arena, with many other near death experiencers. We were all wearing dark robes with the hood pull up over our heads, so we could not see each others faces. The lessons learned were presented to us on a large globe floating in front of us and at the center of this circle. The globe was in constant movement, changing colors and changing content, and always fascinating. It was very complicated, and very easy to understand. The laws of the universe felt clear and simple.

And that’s the way I like it.
I prefer the big picture, without getting bogged down in the minuscule.

What I find important is that Light is stronger than darkness.
That there are no mistakes, because mistakes are our teachers.
That soul growth is destiny.
That we are known and loved.
And that a complete and easy and gentle, understanding of the universe is a given, in our future, at the the perfect time and moment, when we are ready for it.