Website owner: James Miller
How do you help a person solve complicated emotional problems? How were the emotional problems of my younger years resolved? Part of the process, I think, was a conducive climate. What do I mean? I speak of a couple of things: 1. The security coming from a good, steady job and an ever increasing bank account. 2. A sweet, good wife which made for a relaxed, wholesome home life. I would suggest that a feeling of financial security and a quiet, relaxed, orderly life are two important prerequisites to the solution of emotional problems. If you wish to help someone with an emotional problem you must first find a way to provide him with these things. If a person doesn't have a job and doesn't have the feeling of security coming from knowing that he is assured of food to eat and a roof over his head how can you help him? Suppose it is a runaway child we wish to help. The first thing you would need to do would be to find a secure livelihood for him that was legitimate. How would you do it? This is where my ideas on self-sufficient country living might come in useful. You could teach him how to be self-sufficient and live on little. If you could show him how to construct a dwelling for little or nothing and how to "live off the land" you would be giving him a degree of security. Thus you must first deal with a person's practical, physical needs before you can deal with their emotional needs. Aug 1985
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