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🌚 How to Dispel the “Dark Cloud”
This re-frame doesn’t change the fact that depression and related conditions can be deeply unsettling experiences, often described as dark nights of the soul. But viewing these experiences as an intelligent rebellion from within offers a new way of moving through them – an invitation to a new story.
Jonathan Carson • A Call to Rebellion: A New Story About Depression
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Susan would complain that the present, the life she was living moment to moment, felt unreal to her. Only the future really mattered, for that was where her ideal life resided. “If I just wait a little longer”, she would remark in a tone of wry despondency, “there’ll be this magically transformative event and everything will come right.”
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How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, Or, I Demand Deep Okayness for Everyone
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Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions
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Depression is often described as a chemical imbalance in the brain. Burnout and anxiety are symptoms of an overloaded autonomic nervous system. Eisenstein is suggesting that these responses are a feature rather than a bug. They are mechanisms for withdrawing our full participation in a way of life that is out of alignment with our natural instincts
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Just to say this plainly: human beings can never be made happy by the material world. We are spiritual beings and can be emotionally healthy only when we are in touch with a higher world. We need higher forces just as we need air. This is not abstract philosophy, it is a description of our nature. But it requires constant work to stay in touch with
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