CHI Health Richard Young Outpatient Clinic

“I’m going to tell you something sad. Many people, even teachers don’t know the difference. They can’t tell the difference between a coping mechanism and something that is genuinely healing and beneficial long term. What they experience is pain relief and assume something is being healed. Feeling better because you had an injection of Novocaine does not mean the broken bone is mended. And many genuinely healing things can in fact cause more pain in the short term. Many people don’t use these ‘Novocaine’ thoughts or techniques in the right way at the right time.nnA sadder truth still is that many people in the spiritual field don’t care whether the spirituality they are delivering is simply Novocaine or not. They don’t care because coping and numbing and delusion and substitute addiction is what they, themselves are doing. They don’t care because it is immediate relief. It is what people are desperate for. Because of this, it is easy to sell and it guarantees to keep on selling. People flock to events and sit in the seats eager to get their “hit” of good feeling stuff. But because it is being used as a coping mechanism, nothing in their life actually changes. So their only hope of feeling good again is to come back for a hit again. These seminars and products fail to actually benefit someone at this point, instead, they become like a ‘fix’. People become addicted to Novocaine spirituality for the same reason that people get addicted to painkillers. To understand more about addiction, watch my video titled: Addiction and How To Overcome Addiction.nnAm I advocating for no Novocaine? No. In fact, I will directly tell people to use these thoughts, beliefs, tools and techniques. Many of them are incredibly powerful and beneficial tools. What I am advocating for is for these things to be used consciously in the right times and right situations. Let me give you an example. Positive focus exercises can be used to pull yourself out of a downward spiral so you can actually focus on those steps that you need to take. They can also be used to bypass things that really need to change in your life. Using the metaphor, the first is Novocaine used properly. The second is Novocaine used improperly. Almost any spiritual or self-help technique that makes you feel better (some definitely more than others) have the potential to serve as spiritual Novocaine. Here is just a tiny list of things that could serve as spiritual Novocain:nnPositive focus exercisesnGratitude exercisesnReligious or spiritual beliefsnMeditationnPresent moment exercisesnThoughts like “Anything that is happening is supposed to happen” “The physical is just an illusion” “It is what it is” “The universe will take care of it” “Darkness is always drawn to light” “We are all one” “All there is, is love” “You create your own reality” “It’s all perfect and in divine plan” etc. You will notice that thoughts that cause you to feel superior or safe or good or justified pose a particular risk.nTalking with Spirit Guides and AngelsnPositive somatic resourcingnCrystalsnEssential oilsnPositive oracle decksnListening to inspirational speechesnAffirmationsnPrayernReligious rituals or mantrasnSpiritual ‘medicines’ including shamanic plants and/or their compoundsnRetreatsnWorkshops, Seminars and exposnYoganEnergy WorknnNotice how several of these things that could serve as spiritual Novocaine could just as easily serve to help someone awaken? This is one reason why it’s so hard for people to recognize when they are mis-using a spiritual or self help tool.nnSo often people think they are becoming conscious and awakening, when in fact they are just developing stronger and stronger coping mechanisms. Stronger and stronger coping mechanisms that will backfire one day or that currently harm themselves and the world around them. You can relate to this by imagining that someone thinks they are healing when in fact, they have just managed to hook themselves up to a morphine drip.” - Teal Swan

I was admitted to Richard Young on November second, 2020. I had fallen into terrible depression and was suicidal. They bring counselors in and have group therapy, and all of this is supposed to be healing for us, but all they gave us was “coping mechanisms.” Coping mechanisms such as finding distractions when we’re sad, which is incredibly unhealthy. They don’t let you out until you’re “better” or until your meds start working, and that is completely unrealistic with the expectation of putting a bandaid on the wound and not getting to the actual root of the pain. I’m glad that mental health stigma is less prominent than it was in the 1900s, but the way we view people with depression and anxiety in the and any kind of pain in the U.S. as something that they just need to “cope” with is not even humane. In essence, coping is suppressing, and all that does is cause more harm and further pain and trauma to our future generations, and the teaching that suppressing is the way to go.nn“The vast majority of people find their way to spirituality and self help through pain. This means they are in a state of distress. When people are in pain/distress they want two things, they want to heal (which is actual resolution for the problem itself) and they want immediate relief from the pain. But these two things can often be like two roads diverging in opposing directions.nnYou are familiar with anesthetics, otherwise known as painkillers such as Novocaine or Morphine. The benefits of anesthetics go without saying. But there is a downside to them if they are used in the wrong situations or the wrong ways. Pain exists for a reason. Pain is always the indication that something needs to be paid attention to, done or changed so a person can come back into alignment with wellbeing. For example, the pain of touching a hot stove is calling you to remove your hand. If you could not feel the pain, you would leave your hand on the stove and burn it completely. It is this misuse of painkillers that we need to be concerned with relative to spirituality. To understand more about this, you can watch my video titled: Spiritual Bypassing.nnPhysical anesthetics aren’t the only kind of painkiller. There are many painkillers that are behavioral and mental that can prove to be just as powerful as far as coping mechanisms go. What I want you to understand is that a coping mechanism infers no actual healing and no actual change. A coping mechanism is by definition a specific alteration that you make mentally, emotionally or physically so that you can manage or adapt to something that is causing you stress. It implies that you are not getting out of a distressing or painful situation, but rather finding ways to live with it. And for so many people, spirituality is just one giant coping mechanism. Religions have been teaching their congregations to use spirituality (and the different beliefs and practices inherent in it) as a coping mechanism for thousands of years. To learn more about this, watch my video titled: Spirituality, The Great Coping Mechanism.nnI will never forget the first time I was hired to give a talk at a spiritual event many years ago. It was one of those expos where there are hundreds of booths selling spiritual products and over 30 speakers were hired and scheduled to speak throughout the event. Watching the people wander from room to room to listen to the speakers and watching them with their newly bought products reminded me of watching people in another place I had been… A methadone clinic. It was there that I coined the term “Novocaine Spirituality”. Spirituality can take you down either road, the road of expansion, awareness and healing. Or the road of coping, numbing, delusion and substitute addiction. Novocaine spirituality is the latter. Novocaine spirituality is those spiritual or self help beliefs, techniques, processes and products that do absolutely nothing to create awareness, expansion and change. Instead, it serves as a way to avoid or escape pain.” - Teal Swan

I was in patient 3 times the first time I went there they listened to me but the 2 time was alright but the third time I had enough I just argued with a staff member named jakelynn we used to get along but I don’t talk to her no more when I’m there ohhh and of course Christie she nice but when she refused to talk to me she said that she was busy I lost my trust I was threatened to be put into a hold while I was calm. I SUGGEST DONT TALK TO CHRISTIE OR JAKELYNN and don’t go therennEDIT; IM GOING TO BE SUING THIS HOSPITAL FOR EMOTIONAL TRAMUA AND NEGLECT ALSO AND MORE IMPORTANTLY I SUGGEST NOT TO GO INTO IMPATIENT

Do NOT recommend at all! I took my boyfriend there a month ago and waited about 2 hours and a half to see someone. When we finally did see someone they sent us to a different area in the building to make an appointment for his medication. We went back and waited about 45 min. And finally said screw it and went home. NOW we try and call them no one answers or they are EXTREMELY rude and hang up!!

Very piss poor to work with, it’s a joke.