Psychology vs. Spirituality
The MOST important thing I did when deciding to manage ADHD with skills (not pills): favouring spirituality over psychology.
The difference between psychology and spirituality:
- Psychology studies the mind.
- Spirituality studies that which is aware of the mind.
The mind is MUCH more complex than that which is aware of the mind.
But, unlike the mind, that which is aware of the mind is always peaceful, content, and blissful. Always there, like the blue sky.
Sadly, for many of us grey clouds veil the blue sky.
True spirituality is in locating and living as the blue sky.
Forget trying to wipe out all the grey clouds one-by-one. That's fighting with the mind, which never ever ever ever works.
The mind will always create justifications for why one thing is right. Or another is wrong. Or why one person is right but another is wrong. These are just opinions by the way, regardless of how deep you feel something is unjust.
Instead, we can go back to the deepest part of ourselves (that which is aware) and reside there.
From this point we can watch the mind. But we know the mind is not us. So we gradually over time stop taking what is says seriously.
This is why my client Kevin said "when I heard you say 'you are not the voice of the mind, you are the one who hears it' I felt free for the first time in my life.
This is what true spirituality can do.
Rather than fighting the mind. Or reasoning with the mind. Or trying to change it. We go behind the mind and reside there.
We might not be able to live there 24/7/365. But the more we practice the less we want to leave.
It's really quite simple. Unlike psychology.
(which isn't to say the study of psychology isn't important, it is very very important).
But it's not easy. Not at all.
In fact, it's a lot easier to just keep fighting the mind. But that seldom seems to work.