I feel so happy. I realised exactly what my problem was. I don’t know if it applies to all people with psychosis but i suspect it does. The thing about me was that i had believed my thoughts were being broadcast everywhere constantly. That was all it was. I changed my thoughts about that and now i am ok. My thoughts are just inside my head like they used to be. I know this works - i can feel it. My consciousness is immediately different to how it used to be. I was walking around in a kind of daze but now i am percieving things properly.
This doesn’t relate to yoga probably but some people here might be able to relate to it. It is linked to synchronicity and the expansion of consciousness. A kind of grown up solipsism ensured with me. Don’t believe in this. Know very thoroughly that your thoughts are in your own head.
Food for thought Gumpi but too simple in my opinion. Perhaps we have choice and a certain privacy in our thoughts as well as the ability to broadcast on non physical levels. Perhaps a schizophrenic has lost that ability of choosing or perhaps doean’t know that it exists. It seems more of a continuum to me. I am not ready to disregard synchronicity as it has come up many many times in my own life but I am not ready to come to any conclusions yest of solipsism or any other conclusions. Personaly my life tends to feel that i am on teh right track when the synchronicities are frequent and I miss them when they are not.
Gumpi said:
The thing about me was that i had believed my thoughts were being broadcast everywhere constantly. That was all it was.
Gumpi, if you believed or sensed that your thoughts were being broadcast everywhere constantly, and no longer do, I’d say that is a good thing. I wouldn’t conclude at this point though that the underlying condition has been cured completely. Schizophrenia can come in ‘episodes’ – and occasions of improvement are not generally to be considered an outright cure. So, I’d say just take it as it comes, always doing what is best for you. Continue following medical advice.
www.biologyofkundalini.com
thought you might be interested.
Well in my case it is the other way around. I used to think my thoughts are in my own head all my life until about a month ago I went to see an energy healer. After just looking at me he was able to say everything about my physical condition, like what minor ailments I get sometimes like eye tension and suchlike and which are my weak points etc. And here comes the shocker: he told me very casually that he can see an emotional problem about a former relationship. Something like that: yeah this relationship started X years ago but you have a problem for the last Y years. There is absolutely no way, no chance at all for him to have found out this information any ‘regular’ way because basically noone knows it (or at least I thought so). Now I think that what we think or something is accessible for people with certain sensitivity level.
In brief Gumpi you might not have been schizophrenic to begin with but glad you are feeling better anyway.
This is also well worth the read:
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcoldreading.html
Congratulations Gumpi on your realization, glad to hear you are feeling better! 
On the contrary, I think the way our thoughts affect our consciousness is at the very root of yoga.
all the best,
A
Hi Anthony, I think that link is what Yogani is talking about when he refers to “looking under the hood.”
This lady has done alot of thinking and studying.
You are right YB… and if you are interested… she has shared her thoughts with us at the forum in the thread… The Secret
Thanks Shanti. I will check it out.
well, still worth a read, specially about the correlation of active kundalini and schizophrenia
Hi Gumpi,
Good for you: you’re at one of those ‘Voila’ points of yoga, I’d say. It may be just more stillness, more calming of too many simultaneous thoughts.
You may have been in an extreme situation wrt your thoughts. Otherwise, as Lilli points out, lots of people catch the same thoughts, sometimes even if they are in someone else’s head. And it doesn’t make any difference to our functioning in daily life… where the thoughts are coming from.
As per yoga, thoughts originate from outside your head, not inside. Each of us is like a transmitter that catches thoughts of a certain frequency or wavelength. But this is only what I have read and heard, not experienced for sure. I def’ly feel all the thoughts coming from my own head.
BTW, is the schizophrenia diagnosed by docs, or is it that you’re using this term loosely: that you felt you were schizophrenic in this aspect?
I agree, and feel if one observes closely they will notice a connection between their mind activity and that of others, without the normal cues of communication.
A couple’s breathing pattern will fall into rhythm automatically at night when sleeping, and if the breath is connecting so is the prana or life force. Who knows what is transmitted between two body’s via the medium of an electromagnetic field.
The brain can see through the sense of its tongue with the proper equipment, so it would make sense it can crunch numbers that come from a number of sources beyond the conscious mind’s detection. If a tooth filling can pick up radio, god knows what the brain can do.
I think many people are psychically connected to different things. Some people are emotionally connected to their children, while others have a brain that is tuned into a large sphere of collective creativity, and they are ‘on the pulse’ so to speak of a certain subject. Obviously, I think all of us are psychically connected to something as well, something that has lead us to where we all are here right now.
The mind might be picking up a weird noise in certain situations, with no information collected that can be comprehended. Just an interference of one’s energy, that is measurably affecting one’s day or even large period of life.
We always ask ‘who am I’, though. This is the question that gets everyone into unclear waters at times, whether their disposition is of schizophrenia, depression, or whatever.
As someone who has always had a busy mind, one that once kept me of for two days at a time all the time, I think schizophrenia is an interesting and poorly understood experience. The mind is a magic wand, and it uses its diverse collection of resources to cocoon the soul in a mystery of self. Perhaps a person with schizophrenic experiences has a unique arrangement of mental dispositions. Makes the magic trip all the more engaging.
No disagreement, Anthony.
I was diagnosed with a nervous disorder to begin with but over time my psychiatrist seemed to think it was schizophrenia. So i don’t quite know how to answer your question about this term being used loosely.
In fact, i bought Ian Rowland’s book of cold reading a couple of weeks ago. He goes into psychic reading techniques extensively. Now i am not saying psychic things don’t happen but 7 years ago i became somewhat addicted to having readings. I must have spent about £3000 on them. And i can tell you that out of ALL of the psychics i saw, not one of them told me anything extraordinary. It was all guess work and shifty questioning. At the time i wanted to believe in them and at first i was very gullible, only noticing so-called “hits” but over time it became obvious to me that they were all doing the same or similar things. Rowland says that whenever a psychic reader begins their reading they usually ask if you have had another reading before. The reason they do this is because they don’t want to trip up in THEIR reading in case they say something that contradicts what another psychic has said.
No, i am firmly convinced that it is a totally healthy thing to know your thoughts are in your own head. I don’t put much faith in the idea or yogic idea that our minds are like receivers. Sorry.
Hi Gumpi, congratulations on your realization. Hope you have many more that lead you to the goal. Best, yb.
We receive things in all sorts of ways that is not accepted by science. There is the totally deaf girl who plays the drums. She “feels” music in different parts of her body. There was a totally blind high school kid on the ellen show who plays video games, surfs the internet, and plays basketball! He says “I’m not blind; I just can’t see.”
i’ve been to three different psychic readers who could definitely see things in my mind and body. And several of the type you talk about also. You can tell.
All three who were very good charged very little money, didn’t advertise, didn’t make any special claims or promises. One only claimed to be a “nutritionist”! But she could feel my aura with her hands and tell what was going on inside my body.
I would like to share on this post although i am posting a bit late,
I am not diagnosed with anything but i did have kundalini expierence,
While doing yoga i feel great anxiety with shivering breath etc.
So while doing at home breathing and following the breath to the stomache through this anxiety i suddenly felt this major ‘‘gong’’ on my concious and perception was crystal clear, it felt like the two halves of my being merged, following to that i also saw the lie of childhood, the need for seperation from my mother etc. Saddly this was effect was quickly lost but the clear mind and being able to percieve crystal clear and feeling ‘‘normal’’ was very nice.
I am doing the nasal breathing thing alot, i hope this will bring my feeling part into the game more.
I read that schizoprenia isnt as much as a separeted brain but more of seperation betweeting feeling and mind etc. wich is in all human beings but in schizoprenia its very much.
no, schizophrenia has nothing to do with a diparity between feelings and thoughts. That is what psychopaths are.
Schizophrenia is where the mind splits like a fractured glass. It is a disruption between the outside and inside with delusions and hallucinations in place of a definite sense of self. That was my experience anyway.
It is not enlightenment, although it seems somewhat synonymous. Then again, i don’t believe in englightenment.
And there again, there are different levels of psychosis or schizphrenia. It is not a black or white thing.
Madness is akin to genius. Or so they say. I would hate to be normal.
I used to believe that my thoughts were projected and anyone at all could tune in. Sometimes I would think that everyone was listening but slyly and expertly making it appear that they were not able to. I also thought that I was the only person who was not aware of some fundamental truth about life and everyone else was enlightened and just waiting for me to understand. And there was the belief that when I became enlightened then everything would come together for the planet and we would enter paradise. Then on the other hand I would have extreme discomfort in believing something quite opposite, that I was responsible for all of the ills of the world and I was keeping everyone and everything back from entering paradise. So, everyone could hear my thoughts and I was either the (potential) savior or the “antichrist”. It was a horrible burden and caused me great depression, anxiety and confusion and other extreme feelings. This was all so long ago, way back in my teens and twenties. I finally somehow was able to see through it all, but only after a life of misery and complication which was also exacerbated by obsessive compulsive disorder and self-medication with drugs and alcohol. Now I just accept that all of it and none of it is true (ha ha ha ha, gotta make light of it).
P.S. I’m glad you are seeing through the schizophrenia Gumpi.