Mind poisoning
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Mind poisoning
We were on a trail and were walking through a stream towards a waterfall. A friend screamed scared and another friend who was next to her screamed even more scared. We return to find out what happened:
– The first one screamed because her handkerchief fell into the stream.
– And the second, why did you scream?
– Because her friend screamed and she assumed it was a snake or something dangerous.
A reflection on mental poisoning leads us to think about how it can lead us to influence each other. Life is like this: either I influence you, or you influence me, or you and I are influenced by some idea or feeling. Do you agree?
Mental poisoning is suffering, torture, a “rumination” of negative ideas. It is thinking about an incoming threat, a curse (plague), a negative mental suggestion. To be poisoning is to be embarrassed, suggested.
A critical remark about a person can lead to poisoning. The speaker doesn't always realize what caused it, but the listener can suffer for hours, days or years if they don't have some psychological defense.
– "How fat you are, so-and-so!"
– “How pale you are! You are sick?"
These remarks can hurt or poison. A threat creates an unhealthy expectation.
A “plague” causes an anticipatory fear.
And the fear of black magic? And the fear of “fat eye”, “breaking”? And the bad news? What about horror movies? What about the fear of disease?
The medical student experiences stress when he begins to study diseases, but so do people when television focuses on an unhealthy situation. For example, many people are afraid of A1zheimer's disease as a result of television.
Poisoning is creating fear in people's heads. It was the terrible and primitive "weapon" that human beings used to enjoy power. Until today, consciously or not, we provoke fear in others and, mainly, in our children.
Did you know that Plato already condemned the legend of the “boogeyman”? However, it is not only others who poison us, we need to be very careful not to “poison” people and not to poison ourselves. Well, in our reflection, one item is missing and you must ask: how to defend yourself?
Answer: first – using the rational side more, and second – using your intuitive side much more. The rational leads to questioning, arguing and analyzing, while the intuitive offers a new possibility and an internal definition, because the unconscious knows more than the conscious.
Happy Reflection!
** Text by Adilson Rodrigues – FRC
Physician, Psychoanalyst, student of Jungian Analytical Psychology and Director of Planning and Heritage at GLP