by admin on February 16, 2011
Symptoms you will experience when your unconscious mind is running your life:
o You are emotionally upset and experiencing anything other than joy, peace and enthusiasm.
o You remove people from your life but the new people have similar behavioral or personality patterns.
o You often feel like a victim of the world or other people. You blame others for your life circumstances.
o When you pray or try to manifest is comes from a place of lack or that something is missing in your life.
o You are not fully and completely at peace with the people in your original family: mother, father, siblings, relatives, etc.
o You have an unhappy or frustrating work environment.
o You find yourself feeling depressed or not motivated to make the changes you would like to make in your life.
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by admin on January 15, 2011
All too often, those who suffer from depression and anxiety will spend the majority of their time indoors. This almost always means that their energy is contained within a box. Meditation is possible anywhere, but many people who are experiencing states of emotional withdrawal are not equipped to focus on meditation. Activities are more geared toward sleeping, over-eating, watching television or aimlessly finding companionship from the Internet.
If you have the luxury of being able to walk or hike in nature, the movement of energy in the outdoors is an excellent way to “purge” challenging emotions and feelings of hopelessness. For myself, the mountains are my biggest healing mechanism. There have been times I have refused to leave a rock I was sitting on until I felt the sadness drain completely out of me and into Mother Earth. I have hiked until my body is exhausted but my soul recharged. I have spent entire days fishing at high mountain lakes, feeling as though I would disappear into the landscape of peace.
You don’t have to live in the most majestic areas of nature to utilize Mother Earth. Here are some tips and ways I have surrendered my shadow side to Mother Earth and asked for help:
- Find a pocket of woods for solitude. Hug trees as the Native Americans did … with your back to the tree and arms wrapped around the tree, behind your back. This is how we call in wisdom from the tree.
- Rocks have ancient messages for us and will absorb anything you give them, returning great strength to your beingness. Sit on one, hold one in your hand, take one home.
- Find a stream, river, pond or lake. Our bodies are mostly water. Submerging our bodies or even sitting near a body of water returns us to a balanced state.
- If confined to an urban park in the city or suburbs, lay underneath a tree and focus your attention on the abstract patterns of the branches and the sky.
- Remember the childhood practice of watching clouds move and finding images within them.
- Even if you are handicapped, it’s possible to sit outdoors, close your eyes and listen to the breeze of air. Feel the warm sun or cold air on your cheek. What is being told to you?
If you discover nothing else about Mother Earth, please know that it is truly and infinite sponge. You can hand over anything to this vast portal. I have often asked her to take all of my challenging emotions and feelings and to heal me. She has become a place I lay down all of my problems in prayer and watch them transform. Her power, I believe, is a mystery we have yet to fully discover. In the meantime, placing our faith in her abilities can transform our energy and return us to peace and calm, even if for brief moments.
Boadachia is an empathic psychotherapist specializing in depression, suicide, OCD, anxiety, LGBT community and individual therapy for relationships. Member: Colorado Association of Psychotherapists, www.coloradopsychotherapists.com.
