Imagine for a moment that a child is being dragged, kicking and screaming, to an office of a professional therapist, with many diplomas hanging on the wall of a three thousand dollar monthly office rental in a major metropolis in North America. A confused child unable to comprehend the complexity of the situation it finds itself in, begs, shouting and screaming to be heard. The confused child only grows in confusion leaving unanswered questions in the mind, as no adult will listen. The child is too young to have a voice, and the only voice that is heard is that of a PhD, “take these pills, they will make you feel better.” The confused little person obeys the orders and swallows the pills.
The beautiful mind is an explorer by nature. Every one of us is born with two sets of instructions, which are contradictory to each other, curiosity and complexity. The majority of the population is trained for the complexity, the dialectic side of the pole. What happens to a child when influenced mostly by the opposite side of the pole, the creative side?
The dialectic, complexity side of the pole displays conservative tendencies, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy. The opposite side of the pole, the creative side experiences, expansive tendencies which are made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk—the curiosity that leads to creativity.
A developing brain is like a sponge. Hungry for information, storing every bit of information the brain see and hears, storing the information as pictures, about 35 pictures every second. Unanswered questions begin to leave holes, holes that will later lead to bigger holes, and like a disease, the holes will make their way from the brain to the heart and soul of the body.
Now add some medication to the brain and VOILA… we have a new and improved brain, obedient and calm, maybe a bit more intelligent, but with no way of expressing and exploring his or her creative side, leaving behind massive holes, in the mind body and soul.
Curiosity or complexity… you decide.
Bruno LoGreco Life Coach Toronto
5 comments:
Really interesting interplay of curiosity and complexity - I've not heard it expressed like that, but food for thought. Think there is a movement in Britain towards the talking therapies with less of the old polarization to medication as an automatic cure all.
We really need to decide as a society if we want to continue on this path of medicating our children with every single thing that they have.
As a teacher I have seen the effects of medicating and not medicating children. And it's not pretty on both sides.
When it comes down to it, it's the parents who will need to make that ultimate decision whether it would be curiosity or complexity because if society chooses, it will always choose complexity because it is the easy way out.
And it continues to break my heart each and every time I see a child treated with medication. Don't get me wrong, in some cases the meds will do the child wonders. But lets exhaust all avenues before we allow our children to medicate. What if the child is an explorer by nature? What are the consequences for improperly diagnosing a child? If alcohol does permanent brain damage, then what are these pills doing to their brains after prolonged use?
This fits with the problem of kids being medicated for hyper activity when food additives are at fault.
I sometimes wonder if parents are really aware of the amount of sugar their children consume in a given day...
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