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Julie Redstone's Articles in Dealing with Depression

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A Spiritual View of Depression: The Light That Shines in the Darkness The capacity of darkness to create a 'cover' over light is what creates the sense of emptiness or lack that is so intrinsic to depression. Though light always remains present within each individual being, darkness obscures the inner connection with the heart and with the source of being so that this light cannot be felt. The Wisdom Within Depression: A Spiritual View It would be well to look at all forms of depression, especially those of greater intensity, as a spiritual crisis in their underpinnings, for though they may show no movement toward healing on the mental or emotional levels for a time, on the level of spirit and soul there is much activity. Here, a question is being asked and a question is being answered continually, namely, ‘what is this life about, what is its value, and what am I doing in it’? A Spiritual View of Depression: Living With the Unknown Everywhere in life, things are moving, relationships are changing, disappointments are happening, letting go is required, and the sense of the unknown exists as an everpresent companion to each step that we take. Knowing that there is a part of the self that is untouched by the circumstances of one's life and that that part of the self is accessible, is a reason to strive to reach it, to search in every way possible for the path to find it. The Wisdom Within Depression: A Spiritual View It would be well to look at all forms of depression, especially those of greater intensity, as a spiritual crisis in their underpinnings, for though they may show no movement toward healing on the mental or emotional levels for a time, on the level of spirit and soul there is much activity. Here, a question is being asked and a question is being answered continually, namely, ‘what is this life about, what is its value, and what am I doing in it’? A Spiritual View of Depression: The Hunger for Light The hunger of the soul for light, especially when the language of spirituality has not been acquired fully, can be both painful and confusing. A person can feel lost, misunderstood, out of place, with a sense of not belonging anywhere. In fact, without the spiritual underpinnings anchored in awareness, it can feel like one doesn’t even belong to oneself. This nameless thing that it is possible to long for involves hunger at the deepest level. It is a hunger for spiritual light. A Spiritual View of Depression There remains a vast gap between the current way of treating depression as an entity - clinically, chemically, and in terms of the body - and the way of treating depression as an energy related to consciousness. Although an understanding of brain chemistry and of neuro-transmitters are among the more popular views today concerning the origin of depression, the energy of our spiritual self influences the way in which brain chemistry and neuro-transmitters work or do not work

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