Friends,
Stupid is a word with big teeth.
It is a word we each learned from someone who misunderstood the wondrous value of not knowing.
It is a word designed to take a piece out of the soulful confidence, the soulful knowing that we are.
It is a word designed to shackle and limit the voice of truth in your heart.
Over the years we have received many requests for blessings, most often during sessions. Lately we have written blessings for weddings, surgeries, doctor visits and family conflicts.
As part of our offering to our collective evolution, we will be sending you blessings periodically from the spiritual team that works with us when we work with clients. We offer these blessings as reminders to receive from the spirit of life the gifts of your wise heart and loving nature.
Almost 10% of the American adult population suffers from depression, an astounding 19 million people. link
Depression among preschoolers is increasing 23% per year and they represent the fastest growing market for antidepressants. link
What’s wrong with this picture?
All of us will experience depression at times during our lives. You know the feeling. It’s like being underwater … or not being sure how to breathe. A peculiar heaviness makes everything difficult. Even moving your body becomes a challenge.
The millions of people taking anti depressants often experience temporary relief, which can be a virtual lifesaver. But did you know that, historically, anti-depressants were prescribed as an accompaniment to some form of therapeutic process? The purpose of the drug was to provide a breath of fresh air so that the patient – in concert with their support team – could gain a perspective and understanding of the circumstances in their life that caused the depression. Today, more often than not, only drugs are prescribed and the root causes are not explored.
We invite our clients to ask themselves: what will it take for you to integrate the painful aspects of your life?
Depression is not dead weight. It is fuel for life. But, that fuel must be burned.
TV advertisements assure us that pills will take away our depression, thereby solving our problems and restoring our previously happy life (just look at the before and after images… what a transformation!). While appropriate medications can work miracles for people, unless the underlying circumstances that are producing symptoms are not attended to, suppressed symptoms will go somewhere else in the body.
What is Depression?
After years of working with people in our Medical Intuitive practice, we’ve come to appreciate depression as a valid stage within an individual’s evolution. We have learned how to assist people to reclaim the strength that often gets sapped by illness. Depression can be used as a catalyst for honest comprehension of circumstances that have changed or must change for the next chapter of life to open.
In other words, depression can be used to your advantage. Depression can become a lever to get you unstuck, especially in the midst of a physical illness.
photo by David C. MacKenzie
Life is astoundingly complex, designed to provide us an entire spectrum of experience from the very highs to the very lows. Yes, there are many things in the world today that we can sadden ourselves over. But to feel uncertainty, fear and sorrow is a symptom of life itself. And compassion, which is a revelation of heartfelt understanding, can be enlivened by the gift of depression. As Thomas Moore wrote in Care of the Soul: “Melancholy thoughts carve out an interior space where wisdom can take up residence.”
If you’re feeling stuck in the heaviness and doubt that sometimes occurs in the healing process, please invite our help.
Let us help your depression bloom into understanding, so that the darkness you feel can be met by the light of a new day and open a new chapter in your life. After all, darkness is no more than the absence of light.
Quoting again from Moore: “What if ‘depression’ were simply a state of being, neither good nor bad, something the Soul does in its own good time and for its own good reasons.”
We respect the cycles in your life. What you are feeling is … what you are feeling! For good reason. Let us help you discover what those reasons are and turn depression into liberation.
The Ghosts in Our Words
Some words and phrases that make up our values, ideas and basic beliefs are too small because the ghosts of the past are hanging out in our vocabulary.
You probably know the expression “saying one thing and meaning something else”. Most of us like to think of ourselves as honest people and mainly we are. Unless we’re living under the tyranny of someone else’s words or ideas that we haven’t self defined.
Interesting Fact
Have you ever thought about the difference between revolution and evolution?
The Online Etymological Dictionary defines ‘Revolution’ as “revolving, to turn, roll back.”
The term ‘Evolution’ is defined as “an opening of what was rolled up” as well as “the growth to maturity and development of an individual living thing”.
What is vital for each of us to remember is that we have power.
We have the capacity to create our experience of the world painfully or joyfully.
And…
Have you ever noticed the ongoing dialogue you have with the voice inside your head?
This voice is telling us a story all the time.
We invite you to make friends with the voice inside your head, your Maker of meaning.
You can change the story you’re hearing.
