Overcoming Depression

Have you lost interest in day-to-day activities, perhaps with a disturbed sleep pattern and a feeling of clinging heavy blackness? If so, it could be that you are experiencing depression.

So often, the depressed person will say, "It’s such an effort just to get out of bed. I don’t seem to want to do anything." This heavy-hearted inertia weighs on us like an unfair penalty. Yet, strange as it may sound, there can be real benefits coming to us when the pace of living is forcibly slowed down in this way. When depression comes, we have time at last to reflect, to reconsider what is really important to us in life, to let go of old hurts and resentments.

All human emotions have their parallel in Nature around us. For example, if we examine a shadow, any shadow, we will see that it is not real – it is simply an absence of light. What is also obvious is that every shadow points back towards a light. Something is blocking this light, causing the shadow. So too, in our human condition, how we think can block our ‘inner light’. So we need to change how we think.

So what to do? How can we survive and prosper in the midst of this oppressive blackness? In brief, here are a few suggestions: