JANU: What is there to see of life entanglements and engagements? It proceeds along these lines, our brother, of emotional victories and emotional morass. The emotional body, in the human experience, is a vehicle of energy transfer among situations, circumstances, and realities. The victorious moments are happy outcomes, due to a variety of reasons: being in the flow of life and the natural order of awakening lifting the spirits, building confidence and the enthusiasm to continue.
The morass, on the other hand, is the result of confusion, energies moving in different directions at the same time without organization or flow or mutual configurations. The morass deepens as the disorganization continues, leading to depression, clinically speaking. Redirecting these conflicting energies is the solution, and this is accomplished by one moment of insight in the direction of the beauty of life.
Sympathy is not the key here, from another. It just supports and agrees with the depression. Returning then to self-worth begins the change, reflecting someone’s worth to them and that they have value to others, just by existing.
Now, this must be real in the emotions and the mind of the one who encourages, for if it’s not real, the other will know it, you see. Develop this ability by seeing the worth of others, not so much by their actions or their words, but through their existence. Now, your purpose here is not to relieve depression. They will do that, once they see purpose in their life and not necessarily linked to performance. Remember the phrase, our brother: “All life is of equal worth.” Own this understanding.
Someone in depression may seem subdued, and peaceful, and quiet. They are not. Their emotions and energies are in turmoil, without direction or coordination or harmony. How many see their worth in the life by their skills, professions, intelligence, and actions? But behind all of this, where is the self-worth as a fundamental, a primary reality in their lives? Just as one does not need reasons to be happy, one does not reasons, external reasons, to be of worth. Loving one’s self puts confusion aright, and this is the path to loving others and life.
Jan. 19, 2014 Copyright © 2014 by Joshua Ross