{"id":1526,"date":"2014-05-10T15:47:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T20:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2014-05-10T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T20:49:48","slug":"poem-mental-health-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/10\/poem-mental-health-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Mental Health Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the mental health caf\u00e9<\/strong>
\nMost of us just order the usual<\/strong>
\nThe anxiety du jour<\/strong>
\nA small mixed salad of worries<\/strong>
\nWith a little resentment on the side<\/strong><\/p>\n

For many, anxiety is the norm.\u00a0 Anxiety seems to propel life forward, a basic energy in life.\u00a0 This may be true to an extent, but it is likely rooted in fear avoidance.\u00a0 I have heard it said that anxiety is the truest form of atheism.\u00a0 If it’s all up to me and I have no reliable authority from which to gird my accountability for my actions, where oughts<\/em> are arbitrary, then existential anxiety must be the norm (see John Paul Sartre in various conundrums of being condemned to be free).\u00a0 If God is love, and love casts out fear, then we can let go of our anxieties and live freely into any passion which is in accord with love.\u00a0 The difference between love and fear may be as subtle as the difference between creating as a process and gaining as an outcome.\u00a0 If creating is de-linked from personal gain, then gain happens for all.\u00a0 If our creating is enmeshed in personal gain or loss avoidance, the goodness doesn’t grow, and, at best, it is merely maintained.\u00a0 The seed metaphor is perhaps the most apt in grasping this process in that a seed must die to its current state of existence to grow into something more, some potential in the seed actualized, a crop yielding many-fold.\u00a0 Greed and selfishness leads us to consume our seed, or even better for the selfish, to consume others’ seed.\u00a0 The worst fruit of such selfish behavior is tempting others to pay undue attention to merely protecting what they have versus creating anew.\u00a0 Let us not be overly wrought with the selfishness of others and continue following our good passions yielding good fruits for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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