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Dealing with Feelings of Sadness and Depression

Yesterday someone asked us about how we deal with feelings of sadness and depression. When we went to Spirit with this, we were guided to read A Course in Miracles Text Chapter 4, Section IV: “This Need Not Be” on pages 62-65 and ACIM Text, Chapter 8, Section VII on pages 151-154. These sections were very helpful to us in dealing with our feelings of impatience and frustration about the delay in the selling of the property in Kiel, WI.

We know that whenever we join with another for mind healing, we are always helped. After our reading, we went to Spirit and this is what came to us:

When you look out through the body’s eyes and believe that what you see is real, depression is inevitable. The reason that this happens is because what the body’s eyes show you are just images that reflect the unconscious choice to be different from your unlimited Source. The ultimate truth is that you are still perfect unlimited Love and have not made separation real. You are just experiencing a delusion. You are trying to be what you are not. This creates fear, depression and all the rest that comes with it. 

The answer lies in your willingness to step back from these illusions and go to your Source for what is true about you and everyone you see in the dream now. In this place of inner quiet, as you open more and more to God’s gift of peace, you will feel an inner sense of comfort and well being. There may be no words, but just an inner knowing and a strong feeling of inner contentment and quiet inner joy. When you allow this into your mind, you are returning Home to the truth of your natural beingness in God. Your natural beingness is formless because you are pure Spirit. 

Use every experience of anxiety, dread, fear and depression as stimulus to help you return to your beautiful, peaceful, natural state of Love. It is always there, waiting for you to accept It. You are blessed and extend blessing to others as you are willing to forgive or let go of the ego’s images of separation.

This is how you use everything you experience in the dream for the purpose of returning Home. You have the means right in your own mind to allow this to be accomplished through you.

Yesterday I had physical body symptoms of discomfort. I chose to make it a day of light activity. I took time to rest. During that time I focused on thoughts from the Course that reminded me of the truth of what I am such as: “I am not a body. I am free. I am still as God created me.” “This body is just an image. It has nothing to do with What I am. I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love.” I focused on these and similar thoughts until I fell asleep. I used these same thoughts while I was awake when the physical discomfort got my attention. 

This practice, stimulated by discomfort, helped me to refocus my attention on the truth of What I am and What everyone Is. Today I feel much better. Thanks to yesterday’s practice, the thoughts that reminded me of the truth are still in the forefront of my mind, helping me keep my focus on what I want to remember about myself and everything I see. It is helping me to look past the body and the images it presents to the Light of Love that is everywhere. What seemed like a discomforting experience has become a lesson in awakening. I am truly grateful.

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