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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
I can now experience sadness, despair and even depression as transient emotions. I am much less afraid of unpleasant feelings because I can grasp that they are not forever. Consequently, I have more energy for my life because I'm not always paddling furiously to stay ahead of depression. I also can more often maintain an awareness of my feelings so that I don't need to act on every thing I feel.
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This sounds a LOT like what can happen with mindfulness- or insight-based meditation. It was working for me several years ago, was turning a corner, until physical illness and a difficult living situation and some huge stressors made it unworkable (for now).
Part of what is so tragic to me about the therapy/coaching/advice culture is that I think people are sold short by the idea that healing requires external intervention, some sort of paid "expert". Everything is a "disorder" that requires "treatment".