The ~MESS~ that ~hurts~ and saves

If Mental-Emotional-Self Healing (~MESH~) is the ~subject~ that I ^Present in The Book of ^MESH then Mental-Emotional-Self Sickening (~MESS~) is the ~target~ that we ^Aim to ^Overcome within ourselves in ~safety~ and ~responsibility~.  And too, we ^Hope to ^Gain ~interest~ and ~awareness~ of the ~MESS~ in others.  In ~summary~, if we ^Want to deal with our ^Own ~MESS~ then we ^Learn to ^Heal but we also ^Need to ^Know the ~MESS~ in others to ^Give us a ~chance~ to ^Care ^Adequately. 

This chapter in ~purpose~ is to ^Express and ^Show a ^Concept to ^Create the culmination of distortions in ourselves. 

^First ^Let me ^Tell you ^More about distortions.  We ^Need them.  They are ~good~ and almost ^Always very ~good~ for us, but elsewhere we might ^Talk about it ~as~ ~evil~ ~as~ though they were the ~problem~ itself.  They are extremely ~useful~.  In ~fact~ I ^Assert that ^When we ^Engage to ^Join our distortions ^Together we ^Create, ^Build and ^Maintain our ^Whole ~mind~ fundamentally! 

In other literature we ^Judge some distortions ~as~ an inappropriate deviation in our brain (its ~structure~, ~process~ or chemistry) and ^Deceive ourselves to ^Think only a few of us ^Who must have defective or broken minds are the ones ^Who ^Experience them.  We ^Make this ~mistake~ most especially ^When we ^Hold popular culture ~as~ our ~lens~ for it.  We can ^Learn about this idea of a cognitive distortion (~thoughts~), a conative distortion (~actions~) or an affective distortion (~feelings~).  In culture and literature we may ^Tell others that we ^Want these distortions to ^Go away and ^Attempt to do so via books (~information~), methods (~inspiration~), therapy (~counsel~) or pharmacology (~war~).  All I ^Really ^Aim to ^Say is that if our ~mind~ is a ~MESS~ then others ^Who ^Follow this industry ^Who can't ^See our ~mind~ (some of whom ^Surely ^Know ^Better!) may ^Call it a distortion. 

Whatever the label, it ^Definitely feels ~pejorative~ ^When we ^Choose a ~focus~ to ^Maximize our ~emotion~ against it.  ^When we ^Offend any ~mode~ it may ^Fortify our modes but it is an ~evil~ ^Between ourselves and others that we should ^Overcome. 

By ~contrast~ I have an unfair advantage ^When I ^Write The Book of ^MESH for I ^Know that I don't ^Know any ^Better than any ~mind~ about itself.  Mine and yours included!  I have an unfair advantage of ~independence~, for I don't have any institutional degree nor certificate for the ~study~ of minds.  Rather, I just ^Want to ^Give ourselves a ~chance~ to ^Feel ^Better by degree instead. 

That said I am an expert of ~expression~, of ^Internal reflection and I daresay, I have a ~talent~ to ^Write some brilliant ~source~ code for ~empathy~.  And because of all that, I ^Want to ^Talk about distortions fruitfully, yet I don't ^Want to touch nor ^Judge our distortions at all.  They are not you but I ^Find that they are ~beautiful~, too.  So I don't ^Aim to ^Make any of our distortions ^Go away.  In ~fact~ I don't even ^Want to ^Call it a distortion. 

Instead I ^Call it a ~mode~ rather than a distortion for nothing is incorrect about it ^Inwardly.  ^Outwardly someone (with or without a degree) may argue that a distortion evidences a ~problem~ of our ~mind~, especially those that ^Manifest ~as~ stubbornness, (bad) habits, illusions, delusions, addictions or hallucinations. 

However, to us ^Who ^Live it, it is only a mode in ourselves and to others ^Who ^Live it, it is also only a mode in them.  If we ^Stop our ~focus~ on ^What is wrong and instead ~focus~ on ^Why it is right, we can ^Understand our ^Own ~mind~ and that of others so much ^Better.  ^As we ^Minimize ~evil~ upon our ~mind~ ^Such ~as~ ^Needless criticism of it, we ^Maximize the ~good~ that may ^Come from it, too! 

In that ~light~, ~one~ of ~betterment~, it is my ^Humble opinion that a distortion is not a ~problem~ of the ~mind~.  However, ^Irrespective of the amount or flavor of distortion, suffering ^Needlessly is a ^Real ~problem~, and I am anxious to ^Help in the ^BEST ~way~. 

To ^Celebrate all our distortions and before we ^Talk about healing, ^Let us ^See this culminating distortion for ^How to ^Make a ^MESS of ourselves. 

The modes of ^MESS include ^MESS, ^Honest, ^STRONG, ^Season, ^Deceive, ^Dance and ^Thirst.