Our philosophy

Life blossoms with wise choices

Choices: we are presented with them constantly by our thoughts and our senses, and they relentlessly demand our engagement. They frame how we think and how we feel; they determine what it feels like to be with oneself, and how we interact with others.
Our choices range from present, informed and autonomous ones to those completely made by others and driven by the past.

There is an abundance of choices in our minds. We are constantly bombarded by thoughts, feelings, and external stimuli; we can engage them by knee-jerk reactions or by considered responses. The first step of making wise choices is to let go. There are many "my” thoughts and feelings in my mind. Should I continue to blindly follow them and hold onto them? Or should I offload them after awareness and understanding? Letting go takes great effort. Nevertheless, we can nurture ourselves to appreciate all those accumulated and now portrayed on this screen of mind, and to let them go.

Psychiatry can be seen as the science of how we live our lives. It helps us to understand our minds, to see things clearly, and enables us to develop abilities to make better choices, so we can get along better with ourselves and others. Wise choices are revealed brightly in our actions, our words, and in our own minds as positive qualities. Our ability to make wise choices is the most reliable way to making a lasting recovery from illness, and a valuable personal growth tool that will last a lifetime.

Dr. William W.H. Chui