Deep sadness can overwhelm us at many points in our lives as memories of the past are stored in the body. The science now reveals how depression is stored in the body.
Every-time we must ‘let go’ and we cannot, we suffer. We can fear loss in our hearts, and persist in our belief that we can “hold on, no matter what”, fighting against reality.
Sadness settles in breath and body.
As the body remembers loss and the imagination continues to project the images of a lost past and future, we continue to grasp at a reality that fails us 100 percent of the time.
In fact, the science behind compassion and psychoneuroimmunology ask us not to cover our pain for our health and equilibrium. To be vulnerable with our pain, we must feel it, see it, breathe through it.
The “Pollyanna syndrome” that we often subscribe to, is a bandaid for what lies underneath, which cannot ever be truly masked. The truth is, sadness needs deep recognition in the body and breath… or depression will ensue.
To be truly free, we must accept our grief, all our losses that we hold onto, acknowledging them in body-mind, eyes, face and heart. Let sadness flow down and out, arising and passing away.
We let the tears become our antidepressants to free the body of its heaviness, letting it shed its thick skin.
In mourning the fading of what was, this downward flow of life, we work with apana, the downward flowing etheric energy towards the earth. Thus, we begin to transform our understanding, peering into the law of impermanence.
We begin to truly see that our pain is impersonal, no one is to blame, it is part of the great manifestation we call ‘life’.
Essentially, our pain is a gift we can use to set ourselves free.
Recorded live stream: The Inherent Sadness in a Body of Unshed
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