Through all the times in my life where I struggled with long periods of anxiety, depression or just the sort of sadness where it’s like the world has been switched off in a wash of blue – I’ve practiced mindfulness, self awareness/study and writing in my diary or journal in order to better understand how to work through, accept and release, and ultimate heal from these states. The below has always been true for me and hopefully it will resonate with you & help you as well.
Sadness – Your heart is signaling something is off. Not necessarily wrong; it is simply showing that you are undergoing an experience/lesson which is absent of that river of joy, absent of that authentic living. How do you choose to live your daily life, and how are you stifling down your authentic self?
Anxiety – If anxiety has come to stay and weaved a nest in your chest/stomach, it means you are decidedly off track from your soul path. A time has passed beyond those waves of sadness. The anxiety is a message: you’ve strayed far from home. It’s like having an internal compass that senses when you’re on/off track from your true path and feels immediate agitation when straying too far.
Depression – Coupled with sadness & anxiety, when you’ve let the grief of human living to numb your heart until it is cold and unfeeling; that is when all of life seems to lose its color, because you’ve completely closed yourself off from the source of feeling – your heart. The way to heal from this is just that – by healing, by consciously opening up, by letting yourself feel all the pain, let it float up and through you until it is released. Let it wrench through you if necessary, or however much you need to cry. Soon one day the world will slowly start catching colors again as if a light has been turned on. That’s what it feels like when healing, years after a heartbreak: the reasons for the greyness somehow slip your mind, the sunlight catches your eye, and your heart feels light and weightless. That’s healing. And that’s the way back to…
Pure joy – Being deeply attuned to your soul path; following your dreams; acting on the river of joy within you by creating all the things you feel pulled to do: painting, writing, photography, crafts, whatever your calling is. Being your authentic self. Living in an authentic way. Honoring your creative force, your magic, your light; following it wherever it may lead you, even if it means traveling to places you’ve never been, meeting new people, or having experiences you’d never dreamed you could have. It’s not about safety nets and the comfortable path; it’s about following that intuition, that spark of light and hope within telling you that “there’s something more than this. I have to do this, there is no other path. This is my path. This is what I want to do, and nothing can stop it from happening…“
