Societies Cancor

In the early fifties I read a book by Dr. Karl Menninger called "Love Against Hate". He said that babies were not bouncing bundles of joy but potential pounds of Dynamite that can grow up and destroy others and themselves. That was over 50 years ago. It appears that nobody paid to much attention to his warning.

This earth planet and society are very much like our human body and the mind. When the body has cancer it gives off symptoms that there is something wrong. I believe that society is giving off symptoms every day that something is terribly wrong.

In 1977 I became a clinical hypnotherapist. After working with a few thousand clients, I told a colleague that it was my opinion that the problems were going to grow up faster than we(society) could handle it. Be sides the obvious, emotionally disturbed parents, the majority of clients I had worked with came from what appears to be normal families. But inside the home there are all kinds of atrocities. Sexual, physical, but mostly emotional abuses and naturally in some cases a combination of the above. We see our neighbors go to work, take their
children to school own businesses, go to church and etc. They all look like normal constructive citizens. But when they come home and close the doors it starts. We're all suffering, in varying degrees, from the same kinds of emotional disturbances inflicted upon us by parents who for the most part don't even realize what they are doing. But the results are growing up before our eyes.

The vast majority of people turn their aggressions and anger inward and therefore suffer from all kinds of emotional self-destructive tendencies such as: suicide, drugs, alcohol, compulsions, obesity, anxiety, agoraphobia, relationship dysfunction, financial dysfunction, sexual dysfunction, needs to be the victim, Inferiority's, depression, nervous break downs, masochism, lack of self-esteem, run aways, self inflicted disease, and on and on, you get the picture. These illnesses are the ones that millions suffer from, that don't make the news. I have had great success in helping people over come many of the above problems but some have built up such strong defenses it is very difficult to break through.

The flip side, because we are a world of individuals and we all react very uniquely to our environment, is that there are those who turn their anger and aggression out on society. It is like Russian roulette as to which individuals will grow up to kill, rape, physically abuse, shoot people at school, shoot people at the work place, blow up buildings, kidnap become pedophiles (kidnap, rape and kill young children), serial killers, sadist, child molestation child beaters, snipers and on and on.

I once read a study that said; when a troubled young child is removed from its environment, it is easily treated by a professional. But when returned to its family (to the environment that created the problems) the problems returned. We as a society are constantly stressing education and this is great but how about emotional stability, self esteem self worth, self-confidence and so on.

We need to study at what age we can start teaching and training children that they are not the lies and misconceptions that they have accepted about themselves and society that have been planted in their minds by unstable environments. At what age they can accept these new positive ideas and not revert back. And we can't overlook the children that may be doing well in school. This has nothing to do with emotional stability. While this would take a major thrust, it is evident that the parents don’t have the skills or the emotional stability to do it on their own. We spend billions on all kinds programs and wars. It seems to me that at some point we could do the same on healing Societies Cancer.

The bottom line is; if we want a stable, healthy, society which in turn would give us a safe nation, it starts with a STABLE HEALTHY FOUNDATION.

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