Barefoot Doctor - Liberation From Your Madness: the Tao of mental health and stability

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The perfect holistic antidote to stress, depression and other unhealthy states of mind

First published 2002

New edition published by Wayward Publications Ltd Edinburgh 2017

www.waywardpublications.com

The moral right of Stephen Russell aka Barefoot Doctor to be asserted as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

Cover design Spanky Pymm

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

ISBN 978-1-912062-15-7 in epub format

ISBN 978-1-912062-16-4 in mobi format

ISBN 978-1-912062-12-6 in azw3 format

ISBN 978-1-912062-18-8 in pdf format

ISBN 978-1-912062-19-5 in print

A word from the author

This is a reprinted updated version of Liberation, though we still welcome any feedback on references, items or chunks that need updating in your opinion as we can adjust manuscript mid-flight and in return the author will reward you with an acknowledgment in the revised version.

Liberation has always held romantic appeal, whether it be from slavery, poverty, hunger, war or oppression and great liberators have always been honored as heroes. For through liberation comes humankind's most sought-after treasure freedom.

But as well you know, when you step on the gas and head off into the great unknown, keep driving long enough and you'll eventually run into another traffic jam, another border patrol. Now that our planet has been mostly colonized (by humans), freedom is no longer to be found by crossing external frontiers. But then, it never was that was always an illusion.

Freedom is found within, by liberating yourself from your own internal struggle with life, in whatever form it takes, and with this comes peace. Once you've found liberation from preferring this over that, no external thing can hold you captive not even prison walls.

If you find the key to liberating yourself from fear, greed, frustration, and other path-blocking negativities, then you unlock the prison door and walk free. In so doing, you become self-liberator and hero. Hero, because as soon as you are free, anyone privileged enough to be drawn into your personal orbit will also themselves be freed instantaneously.

Freedom is infectious and ultimately unstoppable. It is simply a matter of being aware of the factors that entrap you from moment to moment, to different degrees at different times. It is these that prevent you fully living the unlimited life you really want; the life you can have if only you are willing to take the chance.

Well here's your chance (or at least one of them). Right now, or just a little waffle along from now, this very text is about to examine those (nasty) blocking factors and offer the relevant liberating antidotes, culled from Taoism (ancient and post-modern wayward), along with a healthy flavoring of Buddhism, Shamanism, Humanism, Positivism and Ancient Basic Commonsensism. These range from esoteric acupressure and other (arcane) physical and energetic self-healing methods and movements, to out-and-out magic, including affirmation, visualization, energy manipulation and high-intensity mental concentration, all of which have been tried and tested over the course of nearly three decades by myself and many of the tens of thousands of people I have treated or taught during that time, as well as various other assorted 'lunatics' (shout to Nico).They are conveniently simple to learn and use for anyone with half a brain (in other words, if I can get them, you certainly can).

However and here's the disclaimer though picked with the utmost care as methods with the widest possible universal application, with your safety and health always foremost in my mind while writing, there are many potentially powerful techniques described which, if practiced inappropriately or insensitively, may cause unwanted glitches in your personal energy field that would be disruptive to your general well-being.

If suffering from any known physical or mental condition for which you may be receiving treatment, and are in any doubt, consult your alternative practitioner, family doctor, or psychiatrist before experimenting, as neither Barefoot Doctor nor, indeed, anyone involved in the production, distribution, marketing and sale of this book will be held responsible for any mishaps.

So saying, unless you're severely disconnected from your own innate intelligence and natural wisdom, you'd have to be absurdly self-destructive to derive any harm from using what's in this book. In fact, regular practice of any or all the following advice has the potential to free you of any state of mind not to your liking as and when it happens. However, as with anything worth its salt, true change occurs over time and not often all at once. So don't expect instant or near-instant changes, (though these may occur, often after you've slept on it and then come to the next day). Instead, expect to instigate a liberating process that leads to a new (entirely improved and altogether more complete, satisfying and fruitful) relationship with yourself and the world around you, a process which you can accelerate or decelerate at will, according to how actively you apply yourself to the process via the information given.

This book contains a slew of mind-states or blocking factors from which to liberate yourself. These have been selected from the infinite and myriad number of possible mind-states I've observed to occur with most frequency amongst the biggest number of people including of course, myself. This observation has been conducted informally over the course of two decades of healing and teaching others, three decades healing and teaching myself and, more recently, receiving an average of three hundred e mails a day asking for advice. Though the list of mind-states included here is by no means exhaustive, I hope you'll find something to match your mood, whenever you feel at odds with yourself or reality at any given moment (assuming you have the book handy at the time).

At the head of each item will appear the title, for example, 'Liberation from Guilt', 'Liberation from Feeling like You're Always in a Rush', or even this present item's 'Liberation from Not Knowing How to Use This Book to Your Optimum Advantage' in case you haven't been paying attention. Next, though the actual sequence of events will to some extent vary item by item (I'm not a machine and nor are you, I'm presuming), there will appear a rationalization of that blocking factor followed by an examination and diagnosis according to a mlange of philosophical outlooks.