Chapter II
What is depression really?
Hello, Welcome Back!
Let us pick up where we left off and get straight to it.
Intuition!
No one can explain where it comes from but the more we try to suppress it the harder it will try to come through. This internal struggle creates confusion. We don’t even know about it, but we can feel it. Those days when you just feel off, when it feels like, even though nothing is wrong your life isn’t where it should be…yeah that’s your intuition and your ego at odds.
Confused without a logical reasonable explanation. Then come the feelings of anxiety and what society labels depression. Depression ahhh that lovely double-edged (s)word. I once read an article, can’t remember who wrote it… or was it a poem, I am not sure, my memory is fuzzy on this one, but it said depression is actually a release of the pressure the ego puts on our spirit.
When our minds/ego is at its weakest because our spirit knows we aren’t living to our full potential.
When the physical world around us no longer suits our spiritual being, the two clash and we feel out of balance, sinking deep into the abyss.
All to de-pressure our souls.
And the only way out of depression is to give ourselves what our spirit craves for. Freedom. Freedom of time, freedom to practice self-love, self-care, reflection, contemplation, and gratitude. To enjoy the connection we have with our loved ones, nature, and other living beings on this beautiful planet. To find beauty in every aspect of our journey and to practice mindfulness... to be present right here and right now! Freedom to do and feel all the things our modern world, the media, and the governments make sure we have no time for.
... oh yes, they are busy making sure our 5% conscious mind is always filled with irrelevant information, scary stories about deaths, pain, and suffering, as if that is all our lives can ever amount to.
Why do you think mental health facilities are always on the outskirts of cities, close to nature?
Because the only way to heal is to disconnect the ego from its source of pain and allow the bridge between our spirit and our ego to bring us that light at the end of the tunnel... that glimmer of hope that there IS joy in living, that we CAN adopt a new perspective, that none of the “bad” things that others do to us really matter in the grand scheme of things.
Depression and anxiety are a golden opportunity for each and every human being to discover their true inner strength and to never forget that the smartest, most loving, and caring person they know, God/Spirit/Higher Power, is within them.
They can call on this secret power if you like, at any given moment they need it.
Purposefully retreat to nature and allow the noises of everyday life to be muffled out by the sound of their inner voice telling them exactly what is real and what isn’t.
And thus I come back to my uninvited though from Chapter I:
All of the answers I am looking for are within me.
Until next time my dear reader
Superwoman