Joanne Smith argues the mind cannot be broken or permanently damaged, unlike mainstream psychology's view that mental health issues require lifelong treatment. She says recognizing yourself as the creator of your experience is empowering, and that mental resilience is fundamentally different from physical injury.
the time. If it's possible to happen for a few seconds, then it's possible to happen permanently. And along with that, knowing from the inside out that I'm the creator of my experience, very empowering by the way, then I still didn't fully wrap my head around there's nothing to fix. But what I did understand was that the mind, the mental health part of it, cannot be broken. And that's what Three Principles understanding teaches, that it cannot be damaged. You know, like a leg can be broken and that's damaged, that's, you know, it can be fixed and repaired. Um, a lot of mainstream understanding in psychology believes that mental health can be broken that people are irreparable. And then a little bit like when you compare that part of it with the physical, the messages that are getting passed across to people are that you are broken and that it's going to be a lifetime of therapy or it's going to be a lifetime of treatment or medications. And all innocent, by the way, like it's just the way that we've been taught and trained. And I believed that too for such a long time. That, like I say, it wasn't an overnight, you literally have this understanding, it happened incremental steps.
