Hurry sickness spins an awful spell. It whispers in
our ear that doing just a little more will make everything better. Pretty soon we’re
going fast to cram more into less time. When we listen to the titillating
promise of more we inevitably end with a twisted gut and a fried brain.
Mind madness symptoms include irritability, quick
temper, an empty pit in the center of the stomach. Worse, there’s a feeling of
soul loss. Suffering soul loss can happen during the course of one day or less.
This isn’t like the old religious notion of hell fire and damnation; it’s more
like feeling so out of sorts that you don’t know who you are anymore and
nothing satisfies you. Soul loss translates to mind madness translates to a
sort of rats scratching at the wall of your mind stress and unhappiness.
Nothing helps to get us back on track like what my
fellow New Mexicans speak of as switching to a mode of going low and slow. The conscious
ego of a sincere person can take things down a notch, or a legion of notches,
so that soul can be found and settled back into. Mind madness then goes the way
of the Gerasene demoniac, a definite exorcism of hurry sickness and the psychic
devils that whip up such an anxious maelstrom.
Low and slow settles us into soul and from there
living is just a little more satisfying.
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