Depression - A More Empowering Perspective!

Depression is a global human experience and can happen at any time

. You may feel sad, numb or apathetic. Life may appear meaningless and hopeless, as if you have come to the end of the road. In many instances, that is actually true, but not in the sense you might think!

You see, you have come to a dead end in the sense that your life wants to take on a whole new meaning and expansion. In order to expedite that, it is necessary to release the things that have been holding you back.

You may feel as if your very foundations have crumbled and that the rug has been pulled from under your feet. That is actually very true: there are no foundations. Your old ones are no longer there, and the new ones have not yet arrived. To gain new learning you first need to empty out the old.

It is a time when you may be shedding things you have outgrown such as, parts of your personality, people in your life who are not supportive of your personal growth, and anything else that is no longer necessary for the next step in your personal evolution.

In spiritual terms, rather than viewing your depression as an illness, it is an experience of "going through the void", where one path or one way of doing things has ended but a new one has not yet begun. This may feel like sitting in limbo.

There may be many times in our lives when we will enter this "void" to find clarity, shed our old ways and come back with a new sense of who we are.

Depression is a time of deep introspection and re-evaluation. It is a time when we question our abilities, the meaning we have given things, where we are heading, who we are and what our role is. Trusting that the universe is a benevolent place where everything happens for our highest good, even if we cannot understand why things happen as they do, can get us through hard times.

At other times, depression can provide a way out of having to face making a difficult decision. It is our friend in that it buys us time.

Depression, may be easier to experience, if seen as a way to uncover your own wisdom and learning to help you move forward in life, rather than a mental illness to be resisted.

by: Maria Parkinson

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