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The Point Of The Exercise. Motivation!

Sick people and sick societies.

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There's a quote one of my staff mentioned to me recently which stuck in my mind. 'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.' Jiddu Krishnamurti It is not dissimilar to something my son said recently after returning from Germany where he had visited Dachau concentration camp. 'Anyone who was not a terrorist in Nazi Germany was guilty.' Lance Hadley There is something very unforgiving about the wisdom of the young. Regardless of whether this is a matter with which you agree, the fact is society plays a massive role in what we consider healthy. When Maria, one of our therapists, recently attended a first-nations healing gathering, she described some of the situations she worked with. She talked about working with clients from her own community - something she has done for several years. The manner in which some problems were managed was radically different to what one might expect. In describing the situation it b