Living with a Community of Demons - OCM Reports - February 24, 2023
In this post, I am going to be sharing some ideas about
the thoughts that broadcast into our minds that we have no idea why they are
there or where they have come from. They are not welcome and sometimes we do
not know how to manage them.
I am going to be sharing some ideas about thoughts that
generate behavioral activity we think we would never engage in. We think we
would never lie to anyone, cheat on anyone, steal from anyone, or harm anyone,
and yet, our thoughts are quick to remind us of all that we have done that we
were clear we would never do.
I am going to be sharing ideas about the thoughts we
experience as a result of sharing with others. When we make ourselves available
to the ideas of others, we expose ourselves and our minds to the influence of their
thoughts. If this is not enough, humans have been programmed since the moment of
the zinc spark at conception (http://bit.ly/3YUB4wb).
Once humans are conceived, all things surrounding,
affecting, and influencing their development comes from the programming of
older humans to their ends and interests. The constant invasion and bombardment
of the human mind yields to living with a community of demons until the moment
arrives for conscious and intentional rebellion. This is the beginning of
awakening.
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Latin
as a language formed centuries later around 700 B.C.E. on the Palatine slopes
that would eventually become the central location of Rome. Latin’s original
meaning of the word demon, http://bit.ly/3IgnzzO
built upon the Greek definition to include genius or numen.
From the original Latin, genius means inborn nature; a guardian protector of a person or place, wit, and brilliance. Numen is the ancient Latin word that means divinity, divine presence, or divine will.
From the ancient Hebrew, around the endofthe 2nd
Millennium B.C.E, Shedim (Hebrew: שֵׁדִים; singular: שֵׁד Sheyd) are spirits or demons in
the Tanakh and Jewish mythology. They do not, however, correspond exactly to the modern
conception of demons as evil entities. http://bit.ly/3lRcQEi
During
the 2nd #millennium, around the 13th Century, Christianity
facilitated the #revision of the word demon such that it began to take on the
malevolent and sinister nature of evil. http://bit.ly/3ZcOh39
Merriam
– Webster’s Online Dictionary carries on this tradition of demon as first, an
evil spirit or source or evil or agent of harm, second as an attendant power or
spirit, genius, third as a supernatural being whose nature is intermediate between
that of a god and that of a human being, and fourth as one that has exceptional enthusiasm,
drive, or effectiveness. http://bit.ly/3IradAN
The following definition shall be used for the purpose of this writing. Since the 3rd Millennium has inherited opposing perspectives of the word, demons will be regarded as the presence of unwanted, undesired, and uninvited behavioral influences upon human thought and behavior usually leading to self- destructive behaviors internally and externally.
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The Demon of Intrusive Thoughts
Intrusive
Thoughts are unwanted, undesired, and uninvited behavioral influences upon
human thought and behavior. Psychology Today reported August 22, 2022 that intrusive
thoughts occur when something
triggers the retrieval of a memory related to an unpleasant past experience.
The
lasting benefits of memory suppression are considered to be essential to
healthy emotion regulation. People who are sleep-deprived are often
unsuccessful in suppressing unwanted thoughts. http://bit.ly/3kskcxF
Intrusive
thoughts are a baseline form of post-traumatic stress disorder. They are things
that haunt us from the past. They find the brain mind connection fertile ground
to play and replay these tapes that trouble us over and over again. That are
not satisfied to just play them as they occurred as if that is not bad enough,
they enhance their shock quotient to make them worse in our thoughts.
Dependent
upon how deeply traumatized the past may have been, those events can be recast
on your internal view screen as foreboding experiences of extreme paranoia.
These experiences can keep people from leaving home, riding in a car, taking a
train, or flying in a plane. This is the creative demon genius behind fears and
phobias.
These are not easy to shake but can be managed with counseling or coaching to remediate current perceptual reality. Maxwell Maltz, Plastic Surgeon and Author of Psycho – Cybernetics (http://bit.ly/3YYc3A9) noted that he could remake a person’s face into an aesthetically pleasing one that others would express appreciation to observe.
What
he also discovered was that he did not have the power to change how people saw
themselves. After successful facial redesign, people often had the same
feelings they had before their procedure. He discovered that unless the mind
also has a makeover, the mind will continue to see what is has been seeing all
along, an unpleasing appearance.
The
intrusive thought of being unappealing or unattractive is a learned behavior.
Until guidance provides opportunity to see differently and feel differently on
the inside, excellent surgical skills will not change what an individual sees.
The Demon of Traumatic Experiences
Trauma
resulting from traumatic experiences is a demon that can generate the
perception of a divine protector or an antagonizing evil. Humans are limited to
choosing the one that most of their experiences validate.
Individuals
that suffered physical violence during childhood have difficulty trusting
themselves or others. They have never felt protected and as a result live with
the fear that something bad may happen to them repeatedly. More often than not,
their perceptions prove to be accurate.
After
suffering violence at home with family, the same attract others to cause them
harm in their neighborhoods and at school. This results in living with long
term fear leading to anxiety disorders, chronic depression, bouts of angry
outbursts, and other demons.
The Demon of Other
Demons
Other
demons include poor educational performance, being a people pleaser, the
tendency to be involved in petty crime, becoming an abuser of others perceived
weak easy prey, self-destructive behavioral addictions of substance abuse,
sexual promiscuity.
A child that lives with domestic violence from one or both parents, or older siblings, finds it safer to stay away from family and others to avoid further harm. Often children that are mistreated at home demonstrate a poor performance at school while actually loving being at school. It means that while at school and perhaps after school activities, they can feel safer than when at home.
Reasons
they demonstrate a poor performance at school include the inability to focus
because of what happens away from school. If they perform poorly at school, it
will validate some things they hear about themselves at home. Incidentally,
they are hyper vigilant to protect themselves from harm at school. If they
become bullied at school, they have no place to feel safe and secure.
Many
children learn early on that if they can just keep people around them happy as
people pleasers, they minimize the risk to experience violence. Women living
with or married to men that beat them use the same approach. Women abused as children
are more likely to be available to this behavior than women that were not.
People
pleasing, is a double edge sword. It may provide some limited safety early on
but has an uncanny way of distancing us from ourselves. We do not know who we
are when we are not engaged in putting ourselves in the spotlight to please
others.
Abused children often grow up to become abusive adults. They do to others especially to members of their own families what was done to them. There are delightful exceptions where abused children grow up and mature to be excellent parents making sure their children are never treated as they were treated.
Demons
take every advantage of human frailty. Too many emotionally bruised and physically
abused children become addicted to substances and sexually promiscuous behavior
to escape the pain of their lives, whether at home or away from home. Because
home does not provide many of the things they need or want, they too often
engage in the crimes of prostitution, selling drugs, and shoplifting.
The
emotionally bruised and physically abused can find a level of acceptance when they
are among users and abusers of sex, drugs and alcohol. Good times feel good for
a moment. They discover a soothing for their suffering for fleeting moments
until their use and abuse turns into a downward spiral making them addicts.
Under
the influence, many engage in risky sexual behavior without regard for exposure
to sexually transmitted diseases. Some experience sex without giving their
consent. Problems in this venue can exponentially multiply because developing
tweens, teens, and adolescents are simply looking for people and place where
they can feel safe and loved.
This
setting is a lure to sex trafficking. Children disappear across Planet Earth to
this purpose daily while observers consider the taken and missing an acceptable
loss as long as it not their children.
Summary Conclusion
Living with a Community of Demons may begin in children
but children become teens that become adolescents that become young adults that
become older adults. Without helpful coaching and counseling intervention, the
chronic effects of living with a community of demons can persist into young
adult life to mid-30s and beyond.
Here are some approaches that can help to remediate the
effects of living with a community of demons.
1.
Acknowledge that you live with a community of
demons.
2.
Identify as many of them as you can. It will be
helpful to know what they result from, Intrusive Thoughts, Sexual or Domestic Violence,
or Bad Influencers.
3.
Identify your risky behaviors. It will be helpful
to know them to talk about them.
4.
Choose someone you respect and trust to talk
to in strictest confidence. Demand a commitment to that. Share in as much
detail as you can with an idea of how you desire help to accomplish your personal
healing and recovery goals.
5.
Get the help you need as quickly as possible
and work out a treatment plan with your coach, counselor, or therapist.
6.
Review your activity at first every week at
the end of your established week. Make adjustments as necessary.
7.
Be determined that you are not turning back
because you have come too far and paid too much in blood, sweat, and tears to become
the best version of yourself ever.
8.
Keep on making your best better.
Here are things you can do for yourself.
1.
Get a complete medical physical examination.
You need to know what condition you are in with regard to your personal health.
2.
After findings and with your physician’s direction,
begin a health routine. Walking is a good place to start. Add some weight
training. Develop a system of eating that works for you to maintain your health
goals.
3.
Maintain a journal to record your perceptions
of your feelings about your life. Just write. Get your honest thoughts of yourself
down.
4.
Define your personal goals and time periods
for their accomplishment. Ask a friend to help hold you accountable for your
activity.
5.
Set standards (measurable and observable activity)
to stay on track. Be so involved in your own development, you do not have time
for distractions.
6.
When an intrusive thought enters your
thoughts, blow it out of your mouth and being with all the power you can to
exhale. Do it as many times as necessary. Your mind is yours. Protect it.
Protect yourself.
7.
Fill your mind with a powerful statement of
affirmation that begins with the words, I AM. I am healed. I am healthy. I am
wealthy. I am happy. I am whole. I am diligent. I am awakening more and more
every day. I am living the life I love and loving the life I live.
8.
As you grow stronger, plot a course for
making new friends and building new relationships. You want to associate with
people that are good for you and you good for them.
9.
Believe in yourself and your possibilities
more and more every day.
1 Trust the power that created you and gave you
your life will be with you and that it is impossible for you to ever be alone.
1 Put your former community of demons on notice
that you are sending them into exile. They are no longer welcome.
1 Be diligent and vigilant.
Your mind is yours. You have reclaimed it. You choose
your next community patiently and carefully. Your next community does not
choose you.
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