Mirri Rocks is a poet/writer, all-round artist and empowerment coach.5 Tools to experience
the joy of depression
1. Breath in
2. Breath out
3. Express: scream, jump, shout
4. Surrender to your feelings. There is always a level in where you can
surrender. Even when you’re mad, angry of numb. Surrender to that.
5. Allow them to be. Allow the feelings to be. You can also allow resistance to
be, when that’s what you’re feeling.
6. Bonus When nothing works: put on
the cold shower and go under it. With or without clothes.
Intense happiness
and depression are close to each other. There is a thin line separating those
states of being. I’ve always walked on
that line in my life. To balance both can be quite a task. I can be really
ecstatic one moment and a minute later I can feel like crap. Sometimes I
experience both flows at the same time. Over the years I learned that it’s not
about pushing away the depression, but welcoming it in, with open arms. There
lies the joy of the human experience, of allowing to be who you are. With the
right homeopathic herbs and stuff it becomes easier and easier every time.
Over the years I’ve lost some friends to depression. They decided to go home
and leave their bodies, by taking their lives. I know how thin the line between
life and death is. Between joy and sadness. Between feeling and being numb. So
I’m not someone who knows it all better, like a lot of therapists that learn
from books but don’t know how it really feels. Ooo I know. I know the depths of
pain of feeling everything and nothing. I know how they tell you to keep your
day and night cycles in balance and to eat three times a day, to go out and
create some structure. I also know that this doesn’t work with you, most of the
time. You’re not meant to fit in, and your balance of life just works
different. I just know you are creative. That you are very talented. Maybe so
talented that other people can’t act normal to you once they’ve seen your art,
listened to your music or other creations. That they become jealous, or think
they are less, or put you on a pedestal. That that’s the last thing you need.
That your longing for just normal human contact. But that maybe the world
outside your room or house is too big, to foggy, to dense for you to interact
with right now. That the last thing you want right now is to go out there. That you don’t want to go school or work and
you decided or want to just drop it for now. And you know what? That is
perfectly oke. That is perfectly cool. There is no greater gift than creating
the space for yourself that you need.
We see an increase of depression at children and teens in today’s society. And
no surprise: old ways of dealing with it don’t work with today’s new energy
kiddos and you. Luckily there are new modalities popping up that facilitate the
safe space in where the experience can be experienced and honored. By that the
pain transforms. It can be so difficult to see your child depressed. It is very
difficult to live with depression as child, teen or adult. It’s one of the most dark experiences and
sucky states of being as human. When we surrender to it, and really allow the
depressed feelings in our live, there comes a joy. The joy of having the human
experience, and the joy of transformation.
From an energetic
perspective the expression of your soul turned inwards. It creates a vacuum
into another dimension where all happy feelings and life force energy are
sucked into. It’s an open invitation to those parts of you that don’t feel home
to manifest in your life. When we look really close, depression is a great
chance for a big welcome home party of all that you are. It’s like a
caterpillar that goes into a pop state, and eventually will come out as
butterfly.
In general
medication only makes it worse. It takes away the real feelings and seduces the
soul. It’s like being in a maze looking for a way out and the drugs create fog
and make you blind. No way that you can find your way out to real happiness and
joy and being than. It will create an artificial state of being that is just a
substitute for a real happy and joyful life. Another side effect can be that
you lose contact with your dimensions, it’s like being trapped in other
dimensions and parts of who you really are, are cut off and lost. Healing from depression
is a reunion with all that you are and drugs prevent that (most of the time,
there are always exceptions, disclaimer alert ;-) ) The healing lies in
accepting your pop state with the knowing you are and will become a butterfly.
We really can’t
run away from it anymore. This is not a time to give up and think this article
is not for you. When you think that, it’s a sign this is for you. For the
hopeless angels that see no light in their lives anymore. It’s for you when you
think you live in a world where there is only pain. In where you almost can’t
breathe and are suffocated by a thick fog of hate and sadness. It’s for you
when you feel the longing to go home, so much that it wakes you in the middle
of the night. When you don’t feel your reflection in the world and wonder who
you are, while you know perfectly who you really are.
We all have a
story, that doesn’t define who we are. We are angels, having a human
experience. And sometimes it’s hard to live that human experience. We want to
be the angel all the time, or ascend. We think we know how we should act as
angels. But living our story, and honoring the contracts we made, living the experiences we want to have, is so
valuable. There is no angel guide telling us how we should be as human angels!
Maybe it’s different than you think, maybe there comes a huge huge freedom of
expression with being a spirit in a human body. We don’t need to disconnect
ourselves from the story we live as soul. As human angel. We are allowed to
feel shit, to think peeeep (sound effect)
the world, and not like others or ourselves. There is nothing enlightened about
pretending we feel something else, than we really feel. We don’t have to judge
our ‘dark’ sides. Being happy is not
better than feeling unhappy or depressed. Both are beautiful. By living our
lives.
When we want to
share the experience of oneness to all that we are, we have to become real
about what we feel and who we are. It’s so simple and yet it can be so
difficult to be honest about what we feel and think. Sometimes we become afraid
of not being oke, of being not spiritual enough and all those other belief
systems we have. Well, today is your chance, to let it all out! So get ready
for some expression time and shout it out.
I hate the world
today, ever said that and not felt guilty about it? I believe it's not a
purpose of humans to like every other human. It's perfectly oke to say: I see
your light, your soul but I don't feel happy around you. And then turn around
and walk away. That is also shining your light!
Sometimes we want
to like other people, while their energy just isn't compatible with ours in
this moment. Some say: they mirror something to you, so you have to deal with
that instead of choosing different. That's not my belief. Yes. sometimes that's
the case, but you don't have to become green when you are purple. That makes no
sense. The world needs your voice and color!
I believe that
being positive is the same as being negative, that both work the same way. That
when we want to honor them both, we have to express both sides of our feelings
and thoughts.
When we focus too
hard on the positive, we actually give power to the negative. We don't have to
focus on them anyway. When we just express what is in the moment, it sets every
emotion free.
Being positive
all day, without feeling it in every cell of your being, is the same as lying.
To yourself, your body and the universe. We are afraid sometimes of the
judgment we receive when we are grumpy. I trust people who are grumpy or in a
bad mood once in a while. Who express their sadness, dislikes and even hatred.
There are no more
secrets, also when it comes to feelings. So often people want to become
something, instead of being what they are in the moment. They want to grow and
reach to a place outside themselves, become enlightened. That is like sending a
signal of mistrust to the universe, saying: I don't trust that I'm perfect
right now in this eternal now moment. A
perfect human angel.
Can we allow
ourselves to be who we really are? Can you say this: When I'm really honest I
hate the world today. I hate people who lie, who project their fears on me,
become jealous and mean. That is totally
cool. I know how to release my attachment to those feelings, when I'm done
expressing them. Deep love, real unconditional love is like a blanket around
your hearth. It's there. Always. It has no restrictions to it. It looks beyond color, gender, fear, hate,
love and joy. It accepts you for who you are. It shines light on your flaws,
making gems of it.
We can be our own
unconditional love givers. When a child, a baby or Jesus is sad or angry we
would more easily accept it, and even nurture them for it. We would surround
them with love, without judgment. But when we grow up we become to believe that
it's bad to curse, think negative thoughts or hate. That we as grownups should
know better. For me grownups, adults are
big children.
Children in a big
body. We become our own parents. so when you feel angry or hatred, want to
laugh, give yourself the space to be.
I give myself the
space to be by saying I hate the world today. Normally I would immediately
write about the beauty of the world in the next sentence. But today i just
doesn't feel like to. It is what it is. No need to make more of it than that.
I'm a human angel, a master that hates the world today. Well. I believe that is pretty cool and awesome! Shining light on hate and sucky feelings. Yay. You are perfect the way you are!
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