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Possibilities to Consider When You're Feeling Down
by Shale Paul

Seems as though it's easy to get down these days. While the reasons are legion, the story is pretty much the same: try as you may, being up, on top, all the time can be a chore. When that happens -- and for most of us, it does -- here are some things you may want to consider.

1. The immediate source.

That word, immediate, is important, because the factors that trigger these negative episodes are often symptomatic rather than causal -- a disagreement with a friend or loved one, a minor setback, a physical problem, or simply a disturbing story in the newspaper or on television.

At the first sign that you're feeling down, you may want to ask yourself two questions: (1) what was the immediate triggering event that provoked this feeling?, and (2) to what might this event be connected? As you think about the second question, you may discover that what is really bothering you is not the immediate issue, but something more distant, remote, or less obvious. Simply being aware of this deeper aspect of the problem is a beginning step towards resolving the underlying cause.

2. Your dominant tense -- past, future, or present.

If you were to analyze the content of your thoughts during any twenty-four hour period, what percentage of the time would you say your mind is occupied with the past? the future? the present? One study concluded that 80 to 90% of our thought content pertains to past or future rather than present. Let's take this a step further. Consider what you think about from the past or the future. Would you say it is predominantly positive?

If you're experiencing more than occasional depression, I would guess it is not. Along with depression comes that subtle nagging pressure to relive the past and see what you did wrong or agonize about the future in terms of what MIGHT happen.

To these two demons of the mind, there are two responses: (1) the past is not real; it is simply a memory, and (2) the future is highly dependent upon the attitudes and actions you hold and take in the present. A good first step in digging out from depression is to stay in the present. Think, speak, and act only in present terms. If you haven't tried it, you may find this to be a tall order, but can be a very powerful antidote.

3. Your predominant outlook.

How would you describe yourself: pessimist? optimist? realist? Surprisingly, many people's fundamental view about themselves and their lives often runs counter to their experience. I've met individuals who have had a much tougher life than I have, and yet they are singularly optimistic about their present and confident that, whatever their future, they will get through it and thrive.

Conversely, I've met folks who have, buy most measures, had a good life and yet, they never manage to acknowledge it. The fact is: your predominant outlook has much to do with who and what you attract into your experience. The important thing to recognize here is that, if your predominant outlook IS negative, you CAN change it. You have the power to control your thoughts and actions and, thereby, your emotions. But, where to start? Which leads us to ...

4. The role of gratitude.

You may say ... Well, I don't have much to be grateful about. I doubt that. You're alive (if you're reading this) and you can learn, feel, think and grow. When I was a child, my mother used to tell me to be grateful for small blessings. I never really understood it until decades later. Gratitude is like a seed. Plant it, nurture it, and it grows.

A dear friend of many years ago wrote a poem about gratitude that began: A grateful heart a garden is ... Her point (one of them) was that gratitude is the garden in which the blessings we receive are planted. To be truly grateful for what you have and are is to be fitted to receive more

5. The rightness of your situation.

Let's say your situation sucks. You've lost your job, are woefully short on funds, and you're coming down with all manner of undiagnosed maladies (It happens, just that way too). It would be perfectly natural to feel abused, put upon, and overwhelmed. Reasonable, maybe, but not helpful. IF you want your situation to change, change your viewpoint about it. Ask the situation what it has to give (teach) you, how you can learn from it, and what you need to do to go forward.

This may seem strange to you, but there's a universal law operating here, something called the rule of appropriateness. It says simply that whatever is happening to you now, at this very moment, is appropriate to your need to grow. The operative word here is, now. Recognize what's going on, learn the lesson involved, and you WILL be freed up to move on -- maybe not right away, for the Universe has a way of testing us to make sure we've really GOT it.

6. The role of attraction.

In case you missed it earlier (point #3), you ATTRACT what comes into your experience, and you do it in very subtle ways. If you're skeptical, think about a time when you've got in the car to go somewhere and were in an agitated hostile state of mind. Did you find that, during that drive, traffic was awful, other drivers pulled out in front of you, and generally behaved stupidly?

Contrast that experience with a time when you were relaxed, happy and not in a rush. How was it different? Believe it or not, you are the single most powerful force in determining what comes into your life. If you want your life to change, well, you know the rest...

7. The wisdom of acceptance.

We have been trained to question, doubt and challenge. Assumptions, facts, logic and conclusions -- these are our stock in trade, the tools with which we navigate our way in life; but ... at what price? This cost of this mind set, if you will, is that life becomes a struggle to be always right, on target, and in command (of the facts, the situation, and the outcome).

We trade spontaneity for certainty, and it is a poor trade at best for, in so doing, we exclude ourselves from the unexpected, the illogical, and the magical. Make no mistake: acceptance is a matter of faith rather than fact and, like gratitude, it too grows with use.

8. The bottom of the curve.

Have you ever experienced a whole string of events, all of them unpleasant and so many that you found yourself asking when would it ever end? I have, and I finally found an answer with which I am comfortable. It's this: I think of life as a program of continuing education in which we can delay, but not hindered, the lessons of experience. While the lessons are different for each of us, the requirement that we learn -- yield if you will -- is not.

We are each called upon to relinquish every single notion, concept, idea, attitude, and intent that is not valid and, for the most part, we resist. It is our resistance that brings on what Carolyn Myss, in her tape series entitled, Energy Anatomy, calls, the dark night of the soul. But what is really going on here? You'll have to work it out for yourself, but my answer -- received after some considerable soul-searching of my own -- is that we are each required to undergo, at some point, a life-changing rite of purification.

In biblical terms, we are required to put off the old for the new, to rid ourselves of everything that holds us back from realizing our true selves.

9. The role of paradox

Life is chockful of paradox -- events that don't fit our view of things, outcomes that shouldn't have happened and conclusions that make no logical sense. Why? Again, the answers are individual and personal, but mine is this: Paradox is the Universe reminding us that logic and analysis will carry us only so far. Beyond that narrow margin of certainty lie uncharted waters, navigable more by faith than fact. Paradox, for me, is an often not too subtle reminder that I need to shift from thinking to listening, which brings us to the last point.

10. The subtlety of answers ... when they come.

Intuition is a slippery thing. Many think of it as a gift. I think of it as a skill. Our failure to develop our intuitive abilities stems, not so much that intuition is selectively innate, but rather than we mistake the nature of the intuitive voice. In our best of all worlds dream, we would like to hear a booming voice, see a burning bush, or trip over some other kind of miracle that is so obvious that we cannot miss it. I don't think that's the way intuition works.

I once had a colleague who was fond of telling stories. Interested or not, he held his audience in rapt attention, because he spoke slowly and softly. Intuition is that way. It comes as a feeling in the pit of the stomach, a slight increase in pulse rate, a flushing of the cheeks, or a sense that someone is standing behind me, whispering. It does come, but only when I give it my full attention.

(c) 1997 Shale Paul, All rights reserved.

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