Robert J. Strock argues that mental health isn't about feeling good, but about cultivating essential qualities like honesty, trustworthiness, humility, and generosity. Your emotions are diagnostic signals pointing toward real needs or empty desires worth releasing.
In Awareness That Heals, mental health is not primarily defined by how we feel. It's reflected in the development and expression of universal essential qualities like honesty, trustworthiness, humility, generosity, vulnerability, strength, to just name a few. Feelings aren't dismissed. They can be important signals to lead us to something deeper, either our essential needs that we want to dedicate ourselves towards, or Discovering our empty or injurious desires that we would benefit from letting go of.
