^Restore our ^Mind

In the field of mental health, concerns fall into three categories: that of how we think, how we feel and how we act.  And there we have it!  That's the essential model of the Mind.  Feel, Act and Think.  Simple, right?  I call it the FAT model for acronym of its three Parts. 

I cover many highly connected concepts in The Book of ^MESH so to remind us of connected concepts, Look for the ^ caret symbol.  Each word or phrase introduced by a caret is a ^Concept of the Mind.  And ^Care is key to ^Heal.  We have carrots (with vitamin A) to ^Help our eyes ^See.  We may ^Compare this to our ^Mind: we ^Improve ^When we ^Remember to ^Care.  Carrots for our eyes.  ^Care for our ^Mind. 

These concepts exist both as functions of the ^Mind and as objects of them, sometimes called a mode or distortion.  A mode is identical to a ^Concept except it is active or persisting.  A mode is active, so it has provided, or it may provide results.  So I will use the ~ tilde symbol.  A ~mode~ lasts 'til the ~end~ with a ~purpose~.  Its waviness represents ~how~ it may ^Tend to ^Return to itself in self-maintenance once active.  It is like ~homeostasis~ of thought.  We might ^Say that a ~mode~ is an instance or an active ~expression~ of a ^Concept. 

Each ^Concept or ~mode~ is a building ~block~.  We can ^Give it a ~name~ on which we pivot our ~knowledge~.  Along with naming it we can ~express~ a definition of it ^FAST.  ^FAST is an acronym for: ^Figure, ^Annotate, ^Subject and ^Target.  I ^Need to ^Tell about it and ~work~ it out fast, so I used ^FAST to ^Help me do it. 

As we ~feel~, ~act~ and ~think~, we can ~annotate~ ~what~ may ^Happen in our ^Mind a ^Step ~at-a-time~.  However, each ^Step of an ~expression~ is also a ^Chance to ~create~ a new ~expression~.  That is a reason ~why~ sometimes we can get really ~lost~ as we ~tell~ our ~own~ story. 

We call them tangents, and without any ^Help they ^Take ~flight~ into other scopes of discussion.  For a ~full~ ~knowledge~ of some events we may ^Need to ^Explore so many tangents as we describe them that it may ^Feel like either we ^Never arrive ~back~ at our original ~message~ or we ^Never ^Adequately convey our experience with a sufficient ~offer~ of ~empathy~ to allow others to ^See or ^Care. 

How many of us ~feel~ at times like we might ^Drown in ourselves or the ~unknown~ and we would ^Ask for ^Help, but we ~feel~ like the questions require so much context that we could ^Never ^Adequately ^Ask them?  And sometimes we ^Know we have a ~question~ or an important concern somewhere, but we cannot even ^Name-or-express it with ~enough~ context for our ~own~ ~knowledge~.  Some of us ^Drown ^More than others.  That's ^Okay if we ~feel~ like that, and it is ^Okay if we have not experienced that yet too!  If it feels like an important tangent we can at least ~name~ it summarily or arbitrarily (for ~example~, ^Tangent-One) and put aside the details. 

And not coincidentally that is ~how~ I ^Share The Book of ^MESH with you too!  ^When it is ^Complex I just ^Name it, so it can be described elsewhere.  To our ~benefit~, as the book's ~name~ implies, ^MESH is the MAIN ^Concept to apply for ~maximum~ ~health~. 

This ~first~ chapter has several concepts upon which The Book of ^MESH did ^Grow: ^Mind as its seed, ^Concept as its sprout, ^Emotion as its ^Flower, ^Operator as its fruit, ^Motivator as our ^Thirst for it, ^Restorer as its feast and ^Attach as our ^Space to ^Grow from it.