Better Living: Improving Your Mental Health Takes WORK!

Why do people seek counseling, or coaching, or even the counsel of their priest or minister?

Typically, when we reach "that point" in our lives we realize that we have to change something because the way we've been living is not working out the way we wanted it to.

People come to me — both as a counselor and as a minister — with all sorts of questions. They are not always ready to hear what I have to say to them... typically, because I'll tell them something that will help their situation, but isn't necessarily what they want to hear.

It seems to be part of human nature that many want to derive the benifits, but purely as a result of thinking about it, rather than through actually doing the work.

Effectuating real change in your life is not easy. There are no "magic pills" or shortcuts... you have to go through the painstaking process of behavior modification and that takes both time and the willingness to be uncomfortable until new thought patterns take hold and become second nature.

Many of my clients leave their sessions filled with hope and new energy... but some don't get very far, sadly. I seem them again some months later...and they tell me that not much has changed.

Then I ask them whether they carried through with the "homework assignments" I suggested. 95% of the time they will hesitatingly admit that they didn't actually DO what I suggested.

If you aren't willing to do the work, you can't expect to radically improve your mental health and get past any old wounds and habits that may have been holding you back, or may have locked you in toxic repeating patterns!

The human psyche is a very interesting and at times mysterious place! Over the years, I have discovered that some people would rather be "in therapy" than actually heal themselves. In some cases, people are afraid of — or at least very hesitant about — actual healing because when they heal it also means that they will have to become personally accountable and no longer able to blame external factors for their difficulties.

Sometimes, that can be the single hardest hurdle to overcome...

So remember this: When you want to undertake self-improvement, be sure you are ready to do the work!

Thanks for stopping by, and Bright Blessings to all!

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