OVERVIEW

Current Wellness system

• Must take a holistic and inclusive approach to mental wellness.

• There is a fine line between mental wellness and mental illness and society shifts back and forth regularly. When angry, we claim to be mad at someone, but we are just temporarily mad. Then, we come back to normal. When we don’t come back or stay too long, we are considered and treated as mentally ill.

• We spend little time working on the science of not getting mad in the first place. If mastered, we need concern ourselves less with getting stuck there and needing treatment.

• When we look at that things that cause us to become angry, we see that this is a managable phenomenon

• We justify anger as a normal and healthy emotion only because everyone does it and attempting to manage or eliminate it is unpopular

Mental Wellness Normal Distribution Curve

• Much of society believes that our society falls into one of three categories (normal, neurotic, and psychotic)

• Segment on positive tail is ignored, but must be examined

• Current mental health model focuses almost exclusively on the neurotic and psychotic segments with a mental illness treatment approach

• All members of society regularly shift under the curve daily, weekly, monthly, and over the course of our lifetime - some gradually and others dramatically

• New model must focus on the center/normal segment, which naturally fuels the neurotic/psychotic segment, but can be encouraged to fuel the constant joy/bliss segment

• Current education system and society must begin emphasizing the normal segment shift to joy/bliss (while treating the neurotic/psychotic segment

Current educational system

• Compulsory education was established during Industrial Revolution (early 1800s) to produce workers to fill jobs for increased manufacturing needs

• Awards best jobs to those who achieved most and were smartest in the room (academics, sports, etc.)

• Promoted pursuit of memorization, narcissism, competitor sabotage, and inability to be content

• Failure is therefore inevitable for all eventually led to depression, anxiety and mental challenges

• Centers around ~16% of life spent at work, with little focus on skills required to survive and manage 84% spent on life (Justin McDaniels - U of Penn Religious Studies Professor)

  • grief/heartbreak

  • parenting/childhood

  • sickness/emotional pain

  • addiction

  • life/death

  • healthy views of politics, economics, spirituality

  • leaves youth feeling hopeless

• Leaves youth feeling hopeless and distrusting establishment/leadership/adults

• Driver of today’s mental health pandemic

• System funds mental health “treatment” by outsiders, rather than acknowleding that healing takes place internally and only when individual is open and ready

Wellness Education System

• Information Age has destroyed effectiveness of compulsory education

• Many jobs replaced by robotics, information, and AI

• Pursuit of memorization realized as less useful and less effective use of time

• Learning is based on interest, passion and curiosity (cultivates enthusiasm, creativity, and well-being)

• Includes some form of music and sports

Awareness and Suicide Prevention campaigns do not address the root challenge of disease. However, this is not a cause to abandon standard treatment. In fact, they should be increased and we should express gratitude that the advancement of science has given humanity means to better manage and abort acute, life-threatening illness and emergency situations.

Alternative Trauma Management (ATM) is based upon viewing the unique character of each individual and seeking to improve their route to healthy functioning.  This approach emphasizes the understanding of past and current trauma (intergenerational, early childhood and recent/current) in all its manifestations: physical, mental and emotional.  A specific plan is devised to improve the weak linkages in an individual through a thorough analysis of their physiology, psychology and genealogy.  The core philosophy of alternative trauma management focuses on the self-healing aspects of the body.  HLN strives to assist this process with the use of research and training that support the whole person.

The goal of our practice is to help you rectify problems before trauma results in severe depression, anxiety, PTSD, or other mental health challenges occur.  Correcting and preventing dysfunction changes the path of degeneration during the life of the individual.  We attempt to prevent the degenerative spiral that is passed from generation to generation. This is a process that does not occur overnight and will demand dedication and long-term commitment.  HLN is here to assist you – not only for your future but the future of those yet to come.

The Office of the Surgeon General states, “Suicide is among the leading causes of death for adults under age 45 in the United States, and it exacts a huge emotional and economic toll on those left behind.”

While true, this statement reveals that our orientation may be somewhat misdirected. Rather than being focused on the toll taken on those left behind, ATM focuses exclusively on the individual at risk and helping them understand the cause of their trauma. This arms the trauma subject with information that they can use to better partner with health professionals to resolve their crisis, or possibly better address their own challenge independently.

Those severely traumatized are not an inconvenience to their families and society. They are human beings that simply need specialized support and guidance!