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Question: I suffer from bouts of depression and you said you’ve experienced the same thing. I’ve tried working with my emotions and changing my thought processes to feel better, but I still find myself hitting rock bottom a lot. If we are God source energy, as you say, then why do we feel negative emotion?

Answer: I too occasionally have moments where I can feel myself slipping into that state of mind. I spent many years of habitually riding the rollercoaster of depression. I have to let myself off the hook on this subject, quite often, because I know I didn’t get into a routine of being a depressed person overnight. It took many years of thinking and feeling undesirable thoughts which stripped me of my power. These thoughts eventually developed into consistent responses within my brain, bringing on my states of depression even faster and more consistently.

There are tons of psychiatric based self help books addressing this subject; however the vast majority of them miss the underlying cause (in my opinion) for why people feel depressed. The field of psychiatry refuses to explore and acknowledge why human beings are even having the physical life experience in the first place.

They believe the entire array of emotions can be explained away by chemical responses and the firing or misfiring of neurons in the brain. Hence, the billion dollar industry of pharmaceutical drugs targeted at people with “emotional and psychological issues.” I’m not placing quotes around those terms to mock, but rather to illustrate more of the labels we place on people.

The feelings of depression and negative emotions, in general, are there for an excellent reason. The more we try to suppress those responses (via drugs or trying to ignore them) the more they come out in other ways. Negative emotions, such as depression, are letting us know what we are focusing upon and doing isn’t working.

When we defer to taking meds, we still continue many of the same patterns and routines, which elicited the depressed feelings; yet now we are performing them under a misty suppression of our true emotions. It’s little wonder many people take meds for these issues their entire lives. They never get around to addressing the cause because they’re too numb to feel for it.

Our emotions (and thoughts) are literally the language of the soul and serve as the tool for creating within the physical and non-physical Universes. They provide a constant link up between our human selves and the god source creative energy flowing through us. Yes, they have a chemical basis in the brain, but that’s not their only mechanism for functioning. Those chemicals are only the physical representation of our energy based feelings, just as our bodies are only the physical representation of our consciousness in this plane of existence. Feelings and emotions, like our consciousness go far beyond these bodies and brains.

When trying to understand why we experience negative emotion, beside the obvious answer- because we can; I always look to the explanation of one of my favorite teachers: Abraham-Hicks. They (Abraham) explain the cause of our negativity is because we are holding ourselves in a position our source energy will not simultaneously hold with us. Now you might be thinking, “wait a minute, he just said WE are god.”

We are god-source energy, but we also are these physical identities which function with human brains. The source energy which flows through us is only capable of experiencing love, joy, abundance, wellness, ecstasy etc. In other words, it only sees things from an ecstatic, thrilled emotional point of view.

When we, from our human perspective, feel anything less than desirable emotional states, we are receiving valuable communication from our “power” source. This communication is informing us we’re in the process of detaching from source’s point of view. We absolutely are god, but as we are a form of god that’s physically focused, we’re also commingling with these physical vehicles. It’s up to us how much of the full embodied god source point of view we choose to let through at any given time and our emotions are constantly clueing us in to this fact.

While I agree with Abraham’s teachings on this subject, I understand it may be extremely difficult for some people to absorb. An alternative option to looking at negative emotion from Abraham’s perspective is to understand that negative emotion is an unnatural state of being. This is why we feel uptight, anxious, stressed, scared, etc. when we are thinking negative thoughts.

Our body’s natural state is one of being relaxed and happy. This is where we function at our highest capacity. It’s all about finding anything (thoughts and activities) which brings us out of our negative or depressed states. Sometimes this won’t happen overnight. It’s a process of practicing and actively working with our emotions on a consistent basis.

The more consistently I’ve worked with this information, the better I’ve felt. While I still have rough days from time to time, I notice a lessening in the duration of my states of feeling upset or negative emotion. Prior to consciously working with my emotions, I would get into a funk for days on end. Now I’m able to turn something around within a few hours or even in just a few minutes.

From time to time, I also experience days of amazing joy. More extreme than anything I’ve ever felt before. The feeling is so intense I feel like I could burst wide open. It’s almost too intense to take. These are the days when I’ve caught glimpses of what it feels like to be completely in sync with the source that’s flowing through me. My goal is to continue working towards experiencing days like this all of the time.

The key is to be consistent in practicing to always feel for thoughts and emotions that help you feel just a little better incrementally. Remember, it took each of us a long time to pick up our negative distrustful thoughts. It takes practice, each and every day, to find something that feels better to think about or focus upon.

When you start having a bad day, let yourself off the hook for feeling that way. If you beat yourself up over it, you only continue to separate yourself further from your true power. It’s natural for everyone to have undesirable emotions from time to time, even people who are consciously aware of how important a role our emotions play in creating our life experience.

If you haven’t done so already, you may want to read my articles I’ve listed in the related posts below. All of these have fairly lengthy descriptions on the techniques I use and recommend for working with our emotions; along with ways to come into the full awareness of our source capabilities and power. If you still have more questions or need anything else, feel free to contact me anytime.

This will probably be my last post before the 25th, so Happy Holidays to all of my visitors and their loved ones.

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