A Little Less Ordinary

By James Stevens

If ever you had to give yourself time to read a book, give yourself time with this book. It will enrich your life, and you will find you will get so much from life by studying its pages. We all live by a concept of worthwhile. Sometimes we can convince ourselves that the activity we are doing is worthwhile, and thus, accept it and sometimes adjust as is necessary. In some cases, if you are not on the path, you may need to make slight adjustments to the way you approach life, but women in general more intuitive and may adapt to the way of thinking in this book better than men persist and try to grasp the concepts the information presents at it has been procured with the greatest of care in a life of struggle with the demons within.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Dec 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781503500099

James Stevens

James Branch Cabell (1879-1958) was an American writer of escapist and fantasy fiction. Born into a wealthy family in the state of Virginia, Cabell attended the College of William and Mary, where he graduated in 1898 following a brief personal scandal. His first stories began to be published, launching a productive decade in which Cabell’s worked appeared in both Harper’s Monthly Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. Over the next forty years, Cabell would go on to publish fifty-two books, many of them novels and short-story collections. A friend, colleague, and inspiration to such writers as Ellen Glasgow, H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, and Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell is remembered as an iconoclastic pioneer of fantasy literature.

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COPYRIGHT © 2014 BY JAMES STEVENS.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

A Little Less Ordinary

PART 1

About Me

Personal Note

History

Jacqueline

Rebuilding After A Crash

Inspiration

The Mind

Motivation

Spirituality

Death

Transience

The Whole

Profound

Synchronicity

Evolution

Looking Deeper

Limitations

Problems

PART 2

Help

Fundementals Of Mental Illness

Modern Pyschiatry

For Sufferers

For Carers

For Medical Professionals

Depression

Delusion

The Danger Of Mania And Psychosis

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Tension

Suicide

The Uncanny: Synchronicity Of The World

Dreams

Sleeping Mind

Realising The Infinite

Sleep Transistion

Self Help Vs Seeking Help

INTRODUCTION

You may find this book hard to read at times and find that you do not have time to think about some of things. If ever you had to give yourself time to read a book, give yourself time with this book it will enrich your life and you will find you will get so much from life by studying its pages. We all live by a concept of worthwhile sometimes we can convince ourselves that the activity we are doing is worthwhile and thus accept it and sometimes adjust as is necessary. In some cases if you are not on the path you may need to make slight adjustments to the way you approach life but women in general more intuitive may adapt to the way of thinking in this book better than men. Persist and try to grasp the concepts the information is presenting as it has been procured with the greatest of care in a life of struggle with the demons within.

A LITTLE LESS ORDINARY

My name is James and I would like to take you on a journey, this is is not an adventure to a far off destination and may not be filled with exotic characters and elaborate stories or plots. It is a journey into the self and the potential that exists inside of all of us. It is the world that exists in our everyday lives and I would like you to join on this voyage of discovery and how the way we think and perceive things can make such a profound change in your life. I am sure for many of us that we have found a routine in life that allows us to cope and get by day to day. The amazing power of the mind is right at our finger tips to open doors within us to reach a more fulfilling existence and a greater joy in life.

I have been to the peak of achievement both physically and mentally and have fallen to the depths of despair entangled in the darker side of life deep within oneself. I write of very real solutions to find a more profound connection with the world around and overcome the mundane which is so common in a routine predictable world we can find ourselves in.

There must be many books on theories on getting the most out of things and getting ahead in life, I hope my book touches you very deeply and helps you to find that there is far more to life than we can see in our busy lives and in most cases we can be consumed by everyday troubles that do not allow us to find an inner peace and harmony that can make a real measurable difference in our lives.

I have suffered very real problems and on more than one occasion have found myself in circumstances where in most cases there is little chance of getting back to not only a normal way of life but to a way of life where I could really achieve and have a productive and fulfilling life.

There are few positives that can be drawn from the agony of mental illness other than those that are procured from the challenge of the experience. When you experience such a condition you are open to wider range of thoughts and see visit areas of the mind that many of us would never know in our everyday lives. If you are strong inside and maintain a belief in yourself it is possible to articulate these thoughts and feelings and present them to others so they can not only benefit from avoiding the traps and pitfalls that lead us to lose control of our lives but to benefit from the insight I have gained in fighting all the way back from the deepest darkest recesses of the mind.

At times you may find some of the stories a little disturbing at times it may challenge your thinking, you can be assured that you will benefit from nearly every idea and it will help you know end in confronting a world that is becoming more prevalent these days as many of us succumb to the dark mental traumas that plague us today.

It is not only about the problems we can suffer from somebody that has overcome these but extends further as I was not only determined to restore my life but to capture some of the profound and passionate feelings I found on the way.

What follows is an interpretation of my experiences that at times can be extremely profound and what I learned about the mind, heart and spirit in my determination to not only survive but succeed in everything I did. I think throughout my life I have rebuilt myself from the very ground up on at least 3 occasions and the methods and understanding that I discovered in doing this. I am sure you will gain great benefit from these insights something I have always been very good at is maintaining my sense of self during adversity and awareness to aid in reconstructing what I times not only seemed like my core mental nature but my soul in life.

I do not consider myself a religious person in the normal sense and due to family values I have been brought up on an attitude of what you see in life is what you get but as I hope you will discover you will find that there is a deeply profound side of all of us where we all have our own religion. In many cases it is simply a matter of organizing oneself and establishing a basis inside being a platform for success and finding your own interpretation of the magic of life.

What fundementally we need most of all in life is what I term a touch of magic to provide some hope for lovee in the harshnesss ultimatily of hte wolrd in whcih we live. This translates to religion usually in a wider sense but I have found the road for individuals to take this pathafter much soul searching. I guarantee successful application in nearly all areas and I assure you I am a compassionate beliver in the material. Although take heed all things should be taken in measure and you should develop your own understanding.

PART 1

ABOUT ME

In many ways it may seem a bit ridiculous in a biography but I would like to keep much of my personal account brief rather highlighting circumstances that are an opportunity to highlight solving problems in life without boring your with too much of what could be termed a biographical account.

Ultimately find it too painful to look back at come circumstances with intrricate detail because it cna make me wince to think of some things where there seems no answer asnd with over analysis is not always the way.

The pain I would say is probably not so much of a physical nature which can be extremely distressing especially long term pain but I would say in most circumstance from my experiences is that physical pain can pail in comparison to that of the emotions.

One can ultaitmely in some way can brace themselves for physical pain and if injured can generally nutrture this pain and in many ways this is healthy albeit for long term sporting injuries etc which are more of a debiltitatiing nature. But emotional pain is generally difficult to prepare for and in the world we live in not always will we find compassion in coping with this pain. I understand that this may be a bit of a cop out in a series that is largely about attempting to resolve such things but as with many we all learn to accept a level of comfort that we are eventually happy with a shoulder the remainder of any trouble.

There will be answers and hopefully you will not get too bogged down with my story.

I don’t believe ultimately I am outside the realm of having grandiouse delusions but I like to think I have kept my writing within a realm that has been touched on in many ways by diifent authors, schoalrs and philosophers.

I will say the I do believe I am quite different to most possibly in areas of being very sensitive as would many sufferers of having mental difficultities state. Of course I know we are all different and that is what makes the world so special as my mother would say and say this with the same belief that she does not hate anybody is that it takes all kinds to make a world.

Where I think that I have very marked difference is not so much in an areas that would see my put myself on a pedestal but a combination of life experience and detemrnmination. Another maybe the clarity of thought I have attemtped to maintain thorugh the highs and the lows in my exerence given me a unique insight into areas that may have gone missed. This difference I believe is the main focus on how my perception of experiences my be of benefit to others in their own personal quest.

What i am is a genuinely kind and warm person there are many of these in the world but without singling myself out in most every social cicumstance I seem to be able to become somewhat of a centre of attention and ultimately to most a bit of a novelty.

In the second part of this book I will share with you ways of breaking free of the cycle of the self to find yourself again in the world that you live. Obviously it is not a alternative for normal medical and therapeutic treatment but rather arm you with the knowledge that you can isolate the condition inside yourself no matter how debilitating and seductive it can be to get drawn back into the viscous cycle and that there are things you can do that can help you overcome the illness. The first thing you will discover is that there will be some terrifying demons and thoughts that you must confront when your fundamental underlying nature is threatened.

We cascade into a survival mode of thought where you must protect yourself and you become extremely agitated and distressed by everyday events that others who find hard to understand. What they do not realize is your basic self is threatened all the values and beliefs are still present outside of the symptoms of the condition and you are forever chasing yourself behind in some dark self driven world where there is so much that needs to be done before you could consider that you are above these problems it is like a wall or a mountain the point where you truly lost control of your place in the world.

It could have been that moment when all things became too much and you find yourself trapped inside another world we all have those moments and this can be the impossible thing to overcome. Because if you were strong and basically well when you had this experience or your first moments of illness what hope do you have of overcoming first the immediate problems that drove you into the moment inside yourself then the list of accumulated problems that occurred after you broke over into yourself to get back to that first fundamental problem that was the beginning of the problem.

PERSONAL NOTE

I have suffered three major setbacks in my life and each time and what led me into this other world of mental illness have been different.

When I was young and first experienced mental problems that actively begun to alter my behavior such that I experienced discomfort in my life and experienced something out of my control was when I was 15 during this period I