Nowadays we think that a person is sane when he dresses like the majority of people in the same area where he lives, speaks in the same way, has fun in a similar way, has very similar habits, works in something equally accepted, manages his relationships in a way that is identifiable as normal, their way of speaking does not deviate from certain patterns, etc.
But you know what? The key here is that everything is valued in relation to where you live and the people who live near you neighbors, people from your town or city… The behavior models that we see in the media such as television, the internet and so on.
Visualize and mentally recreate as best you can that you live in a psychiatric hospital You sleep between padded walls, you take your medication at the same time as everyone else, you will certainly sleep when everyone else does…
When you get up in the morning, you do everything the same way; You eat breakfast, you wear the same clothes, “the ones that are in fashion,” you drink and eat the same things as the majority, you watch the same things on television, you entertain yourself doing the same activities, you speak very similarly, etc.
Do you think your fellow psychiatrists would think you’re crazy? Possibly not, right? What do you think is the reason?
That we generally consider someone crazy to be a person who does and behaves differently from the rest of the people around him Can you see that for the people in the psychiatric hospital, the people outside were possibly crazier than their peers?
What does this show us? If you fit into a sick or crazy society, what does that make you? Have you really observed what the society is like where you live?
Answer these simple questions
And finally, here comes the key question
Is your society a healthy or sick environment? What does fitting in 100% into a sick society make you?
Are you understanding what is the problem?
We all have an enormously efficient neural system whose functioning is largely automatic and unconscious. He has provided us with survival for thousands of years and in very varied ways. One of them is help us fit in with our peers and promote the perpetuation of the species
One of these systems that help us make this very useful and necessary system operate are mirror neurons. Simplifying greatly, they unconsciously copy all the behaviors of the beings among whom we live and that are close to us…
That is why it is so important that you consciously regulate the relationships you maintain every day since if your friends practice a lot of sports, it will be very easy to see that, even if you have never practiced it, you start and include it in your routine, almost effortlessly.
The same happens with economic level, unhealthy habits, etc.
That’s why they say we are the average of the 5 people we spend the most time with… it’s science. Therefore, if in our society, most of the time we are surrounded by unhappy people, without economic prosperity, with low levels of energy and health, passion, enthusiasm and non-loving relationships, whatever type they may be…
How do you think you will behave and what kind of life you will “have to live”?
That’s why it’s so important that you allow yourself to be different, that you allow yourself to be you. May you allow yourself to live the life you deserve.
And rest assured that this will not happen by following the flow, going with the herd along the most traveled path; saying yes to everything that they subtly sell you “in exchange for nothing”, being one more… It is important that you understand that I am super grateful to be able to live in Europe, in Spain and in Malaga. I am not against today’s society. Absolutely!
In fact, I’m not against anything…
I am in favor of work on the roots that generate the unpleasant fruits that no one wants The disease, the murders, the abuse of power, this absurd and painful way of living, and all the other challenges that our civilization faces, which are not few.
I am in favor of, from individual conscience, from our responsibility as human beings, creating a society whose basis is love, wisdom and freedom. And that, furthermore, we take advantage of all the advantages that the moment and today’s society offers and gives us. (from the book “The Madness of Being Sane”).
