THE BREAKING-OPEN OF DEPRESSION Do you feel depressed? Then, just for a moment, feel depressed, without trying to get rid of that feeling, without seeking some other experience. Try taking away the label depressed, and start investigating the aliveness of the body, prior to the word. Feel directly the raw sensations in your body, in your belly, your chest, your throat, your head. Do the sensations feel prickly, achy, sharp, round? Do they pulsate, vibrate, shiver? Are they moving fast or slow? Do they change with attention? Allow the sensations to dance, to move, intensify or dissipate. There is no right or wrong. Allow all your thoughts, mental pictures, dreams, fragments of history, to be here too. Allow them to stay, allow them to leave. Let them be waves in the ocean of You. Give up the exhausting struggle to change what already is. Find your rest in the midst of this restlessness. Pay attention to what is present, not what is absent. Be the light that illuminates, the kindly awareness that embraces. Right now, dont try to get rid of depression, just listen as the moment sings its song of constant change. - Jeff Foster
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 09:56:45 +0000
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