4/30/2021

How to cope with the crisis of your body and mind being in danger of perishment



All Human beings try to cope with the crisis when their life is threatened or their mind is in danger of collapse. When the body perishes, humans die and when the mind perishes, they cannot live as human beings in a true sense. What would be a wise way to cope with the crisis of losing life or mind? First, we need to define what a crisis is. 

Our body and mind are usually taken for granted and we do not perceive common problems as a crisis. The body and mind are essential elements in human beings. We sense that we are in a crisis when the body and mind are in danger of disappearing. Sensing a crisis also means we desperately want to save our body and mind. It is only yourself that can sense the crisis of your body and mind. 

We need our body and mind to survive as human beings. First of all, we need to be alive to sustain life as living creatures. Secondly, we need the mind for feeling and thinking to pursue happiness as human beings. When we lose the mind, we may live as a living creature but not as a human being. All human beings try to cope with the crisis when these two essential elements of life are in danger of perishing. We can easily know when our body is in danger of perishing. Then, how do we know our mind is in danger of perishing? 

Human beings’ happiness, and emotions of joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure are sensed in the mind as a result of the operation of psychology of perception, memory, and expression. The mind perishes when psychological disorders occur in the three components of psychology. The three components of psychology reflect all the experiences in one’s life. One’s experiences of life include both facts and emotions. When one’s mind perishes, his or her life experiences are not sensed anymore and one cannot live as a human being anymore in any true sense. 

When body perishes, it is sensed in the body. If people do not sense their body is perishing, they many die without knowing that they are dying. The same applies to the mind. When all three psychological components develop disorders, people cannot live as human beings. If they do not sense this crisis, their mind will die in spite of themselves. 

When we go through a crisis, we are supposed to feel pain and anxiety. Mild pain and anxiety can be easily overcome by efforts. Self-recovery is possible since your body and mind are in stable conditions. However, when your mind senses that psychology is damaged so much and self-recovery is impossible, it signals you are in a critical condition sending an SOS. Any human being can experience such a crisis. When we sense a crisis, we must decide on coping strategies. Otherwise, our body or mind may just perish. 

There are some typical coping strategies many people adopt in time of crisis. The first most common strategy is avoidance. When a crisis occurs, we necessarily feel pain and anxiety, so we tend to deny the fact and want to avoid the situation. However, avoidance only results in collapse. The second most common strategy is to relinquish, thinking that they are not capable of coping. 




Relinquishment also results in collapse. Avoidance and relinquishment are different. Avoidance is to deny collapsing and pretend it is not happening, but relinquishment is to admit collapsing and go to perishment without taking any counteraction. The third common coping strategy is to blame others or self for collapse. When they blame other people or situations, they feel victimized. When they blame themselves, they feel unworthy. Whether they blame others or themselves, the result is collapse and perishment. 

All three strategies lead to only collapse and perishment. The fourth strategy many people adopt is to try to solve the problems of crisis. They try to overcome the crisis and restore the stability of the body and mind. Once the crisis is overcome, the stability may be achieved, but the crisis may happen again repeating multiple times. Therefore, we must take measures to prevent the crisis once we restore stability. 

The best strategy we can adopt in time of crisis is to overcome the crisis and prepare preventative measures. To be able to do this, you must clearly understand the causes of crisis. When you have already overcome the crisis, you have time to analyze the causes of the crisis. Prevention is absolutely necessary to avoid the recurrence of the crisis. Unfortunately, most people in  a crisis choose to collapse, taking the strategies of avoidance, relinquishment, or blaming others and self. 

There is another strategy some people adopt, which leads to quite detrimental consequences. Some people try to analyze the causes of the crisis instead of restoring the stability first. They do not recognize the crisis is in progress. Analyzing the causes of the crisis must come before the crisis occurs or after the stability is restored. While the crisis is in progress, we don’t have time to analyze causes so diverse and complex. Being in the crisis means that your body or mind is in danger of perishment, which is a urgent situation. Trying to analyze the causes without trying to restore stability will make your body and mind perish much faster than when you just avoid, relinquish, or blame others or yourself. Trying to analyze the causes and then solve the problems without restoring the stability first in the crisis of losing your life or mind will only bring about the worst result. What you need to do is to overcome the crisis and restore the stability first, and then analyze the causes of the crisis and prepare yourself for prevention of the same crisis happening again. 

We are sufficiently educated about saving and protecting our body from our childhood. We are all familiar with the concept of the importance of our body and health, and the seriousness of damaging our body and risking our life. When we are in the crisis of losing our life, we all deal with the crisis first and foremost. And then, we prepare ourselves for prevention. Unfortunately, we are not educated enough to save and protect our mind either in childhood or adulthood. We are less familiar with the concept of the importance of our mind, and the seriousness of damaging and risking our mind. We are less capable of coping with the crisis of losing and damaging mind. Many people try to find the causes of the crisis and solve related problems instead of restoring stable mind first, thereby expediting the perishment process. 

Human desire naturally is produced when people feel deficiency or lose what they have. When people are in the crisis of losing life and mind, the desire for restoring life and mind becomes extremely strong. Once the body or mind perishes, it cannot send an SOS and the desire for restoration does not even apply. Perished life or mind cannot have any desire. 

When the desire for recovery disappears, it may indicate either of the two things. One is that the life or mind has already perished, or the crisis has been overcome, and stability and comfort have been achieved. Nothing can be done when the life and mind have already perished, but when we have achieved stability and comfort, we must necessarily make efforts to find causes of the crisis and prepare ourselves for prevention. Please, keep in mind that it leaves us no choice but to follow the procedures described so far in dealing with the crisis of not only our body but also our mind. 

 

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