F*ck Psychology
Modern psychology often dismisses that which can’t be measured in a lab or put into paid for sessions.
“Where’s your peer review?
“You can’t use that!”
“You’re not qualified”
Western Psychology rarely promotes practices that have sustained cultures for millennia. Meanwhile, the same field that brought you lobotomies, advertising, increased ability for soldiers to kill and conversion therapy continues to market “evidence-based” solutions that often seem to rediscover what ancient systems already knew.
“Om Moksha Ritam.”
Three Sanskrit words that psychology repackages as “mindfulness interventions,” “self-compassion therapy,” and “circadian rhythm optimisation.” Same concepts. Different price tags, academic ownership and accessability. If you’re not qualified and charging you are notprobably safe to teach it. You probably shouldn’t try and learn from it either as it might go wrong! It is not proven!
Om: When Focus Became a Disorder
Psychology and psychiatry often pathologises wandering attention, and yet they also develop the very things that are used to distract our attention such as social media algorithms, adverts, education curriculums and work environments. It then sells us CBT techniques and medications to “fix” our discord with a system set for efficiency and not personal wellness. Ancient wisdom embraces something different: not driven by capatalistic survival, maybe our mind wanders because it’s overstimulated by artificial demands, but we should actively choose to balance this. Om teaches attention as a skill, not a medical condition requiring professional intervention.
Moksha: Liberation Rebranded as Treatment
Western therapy frequently treats the symptoms of systemic and self oppression as individual pathology. Feeling trapped by work, relationships, or social expectations? You need “coping strategies” and “emotional regulation.”
Moksha suggests a different question: what if feeling trapped means you actually are trapped, and liberation starts with acknowledging this reality? Ancient wisdom doesn’t always require you to adapt to broken systems. Sometimes it gives you permission to start to step out entirely or at the very least stop buying in to the bullshit so much.
Ritam: When Natural Rhythms Became Productivity Hacks
Sleep science “discovers” that humans have natural energy cycles. Chronobiology “proves” we’re not meant to be productive at identical times. Flow state research “reveals” the value of uninterrupted focus, but when you are working for others this is tough to embrace.
Ritam has been pointing to these truths for thousands of years. Our ancestors lived by seasons, moon cycles, and internal rhythms without needing permission to validate their choices.
The Profitable Psychology of Never Being Enough
Here’s what ancient wisdom threatens: if you trust your own rhythm, accept your current self, and focus without external validation, you stop being a consumer of psychological services. You become dangerous to industries built on your dissatisfaction and instead of seeing the system as being out of balance you blame yourself for not fitting in.
Scientific proof is useful. But when it becomes the only acceptable form of truth, it creates a hierarchy where academic credentials matter more than human experience, and ancient practices and societal values must prove themselves to modern skeptics before being deemed “valid.”
Reality Check
Peace
Trust what works in your direct experience, regardless of whether it has institutional approval. Seek inspiration from those that seem in balance.
Action
Notice when you dismiss your own wisdom in favour of expert opinion. Question both, but don’t automatically defer to credentials.
Discussion
What ancient practices do you secretly feel might work, but feel reluctant to embrace?
Where has “evidence-based” become a way to avoid personal responsibility for your choices?
The Qrious Daily
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