Freedom from Rackets - Guaranteed Health

A way of thinking, feeling, reflecting, experiencing which is inappropriate for ending a situation is a racket.

We have need for strokes. Strokes quench stimulus hunger. Stimulus may be physical - a touch, a handshake, a pat, a stroke, a caress, a kiss, a punch, a soft pinch; these are pleasing or a slap, a box, a ear wring, a beating, a kick; these are painful; Stimulus may be visual - a look, a wink, a stare, attending; or Stimulus may be auditory - hearing, listening; When we are not in a position to get our need for strokes fulfilled through healthy strokes we enter into interactions which generate unhealthy strokes or we use rackets as a way to generate unhealthy strokes.

We have the freedom and choice to prefer healthy thinking, feeling, reflecting and experiencing to the corresponding unhealthy counterparts. To racket is to generate more and more of the harmful thoughts, feelings or emotions either in variety or quality. It is the way animals chew the cud. They keep on ruminating and chewing. When we do with unhealthy thoughts, feelings, or emotions we are in racket. The process generate psychological stamps. These stamps are traded for a showdown, depression, or physical ailment.

Figure: Generating Stamps

When we are judgmental or critical or complaining or picking or finding fault about what is said, done, acted out, happened, experienced, reflected, occurred . . . we are in racket. The need to racket is an expression of inability to generate healthy strokes. Generation of healthy strokes coupled with handling rackets is a sure shot way to have a healthy mind and a healthy body.

Think good, think right, or not at all is the best way to generate good mental health. Freedom from feelings of guilt, anxiousness, scare, anxiety, hatred, jealousy, confusion, distress, stress, ego hurt, isolation, loneliness, unloved, insecure is the best way to generate good mental health.

Freedom from experiencing pain, anger, sadness, fright, remorse, grief, insult, ego hurt, isolation . . . is the best way to generate good mental health.

Ailments which are not biological or chemically caused are psychosomatic. The origins of psychosomatic ailments can be traced to patterns of rackets. Freedom from Rackets is a guarantee for good physical and mental good health.

A good way is to be free of stroke economy by implementing stroke accounting. This is generating strokes for a reason and without reason as well. Giving, receiving and asking for strokes

Ajit Karve: taforyouandme@gmail.com