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Depression Is An Error In FocusPeople go to years of therapy over trauma experienced in the past like abusive childhoods and violent crimes, etc. where they must talk what happened to them to death and keep it at the forefront of their minds. Their psychologist has them go over it and over it, dredging up all their old feelings about it. Many people think this is the road to mental health, but all it does is keep you vibrating the same old crappy way. And then guess what? You get more of the same! You get more of what you think about, not less. What really needs to happen is people need to be taught to LET GO of past events. There is no need to analyze happenings or to determine what these happenings must say about you as a person. The actions of another person say absolutely nothing about you and are merely a reflection of the person who performed the action. Nothing less and nothing more. There is no need to analyze the related feelings either and I'll tell you why. Feelings do not define you. They can control you, if you let them. However, controlling you is not the purpose of feelings. Feelings exist in you as a warning system. When you feel bad, this is your warning that you and your actions are not in agreement with source. When you feel good, those feelings are your confirmation that you and your actions are in agreement with source. The better you feel, the closer you are. The worse you feel, the further you are. Warmer or colder, like the old games we played as children. Even fervent prayer spent saying, "No, no, no, no not that. Please no more of that," will bring you more of exactly that. People believe erroneously that fervent prayer or asking in a moment of stillness for what they want is what brings them their good. It's not true, especially after you listen to many prayers and hear the lack from which they originate. I don't say this to bash prayer; praying can be very powerful provided you don't do it from lack. I'm just saying it's not how the real asking is done. The real asking - the kind that happens every single day and is granted every single day, for good or evil, is with our focus. The universe sees our focus as our asking. Why would we focus on what we didn't want? If we focus more on it, then we must want more of whatever has captured our attention. You focus on something and immediately the abundant universe goes about providing "more" of whatever your dominant thought is. This may sound too simplistic to be true and you may resist the truth of it. If so, try an experiment with yourself. Do you remember being pregnant? Do you remember that as soon as you knew you were pregnant it seemed like you saw pregnant ladies or brand new babies everywhere? The reason this happened is because your focus turned to your pregnancy and the fact that you were going to have a beautiful new baby to love. That was your focus, so the universe complied with your request for "more". As another example, have you ever bought a new or different car and then suddenly you saw them everywhere? You never knew there were that dang many of them on the road until you bought yours and now they're freaking everywhere and your choice perhaps doesn't feel so unique anymore. Again, it happened because your new car was in your focus. It got your ATTENTION. The universe answered you with "more". If you sit down and think about it, I'll bet you can come up with even more examples of this phenomena at work. It's not so amazing when you really think about it. So if it works for your pregnancy or your car, can you see how it would also work for virtually anything else? Like misery and its kindred emotions? I know many of you suffer from depression. I used to as well, prior to my 30's. I was sick all the time and life was miserable. I'm going to share something with you that you will likely resist until you get better, but I really hope you dare to believe it now. The reason so many people are on anti-depressants these days is because of a pervasive "error in focus". This is my term, so you won't really see it bandied about anywhere. These people, without realizing it, have their focus attached to the wrong end of the spectrum. They have their focus attached to fear, pain, hopelessness, despair, etc. The more they focus, the more misery they get. They believe these things often outnumber or outweigh the goodness and possibility in life. It's a habit - a habit that you probably picked up somewhere as a kid without even realizing it. The habit could have been instilled by a troubled or abusive childhood or whatever, but regardless of the cause, it's still a habit. A belief is a habit too. Habits can be broken. Habits can be changed. Shouldn't your beliefs be things you have actively chosen for yourself instead of things you picked up when you were too young to know better? Of course they should! Change your habit. Change your beliefs. Not the easiest thing in the world, but there are plenty of things that are harder. Additionally, not only do these people have their focus attached to the wrong end of the spectrum, but they have their focus attached to their FEELINGS. A feeling is not a thing to possess, a destination to arrive at, or a goal to obtain. Your feelings are a guidance system and the engine behind your manifesting. Yes, you should monitor your feelings so that you know whether you are on the right track, in the right relationship or job, doing the right thing, etc. Your good or bad feelings will reliably show you how to navigate your way to all you've ever wanted. Your feelings are also the engine behind your manifesting software, so to speak. When you envision an outcome, you power it with emotions. If it's a good thing or a bad thing, you've powered it with your feelings. The universe doesn't judge the quality (i.e. good or bad) of the want you are communicating with your focus. It's you that has the power of specific discernment - it's what you're in a body for. The abundant universe is just the delivery guy for the manufacturer. You're the one that ordered it. So the answer is to change what you are pouring your considerable powers of feeling into. Envision a better outcome for yourself. Embellish that outcome as often you can. When you are feeling bad, that is your cue to roll your thoughts over into something more pleasant - something you really do want. Roll your thoughts over into that and keep embellishing. Embellish, embellish, embellish. Make your outcome contain everything you want. Feel how great it feels to have that outcome, even though it hasn't yet arrived. Feel it like it's already here and express your gratitude. Use your powerful and creative mind to really put yourself there and feel what it's like. Feel your joy and relief at having just what you wanted. Feel how wonderful it feels to have it be even better than you dared to think. Feel how terrific that is. Look out at the world and smile the beatific smile of one who has just attained his or her heart's desire. Feel it all the way up into your eyes. Feel it in your heart. Dance around crowing about your good. FEEL GOOD NOW. That is your #1 job always, no matter what is happening in your life. FEEL GOOD NOW. If you feel crappy, do whatever it takes to feel better. Once you feel better, keep moving to "feel good". It's a choice. You are not locked in. Use your vision of what you want the most and your thoughtful and playful embellishing until you elevate your feelings. You may not be capable of making yourself feel good about your current situation, but you *are* capable of making yourself feel good about things that you want and how great it feels to have them. Use your power of choice and roll yourself over from bad feelings to good. FEEL GOOD NOW. It's not only the best thing you can do for yourself, but is your gift to the world. Crisis is Uganda? FEEL GOOD NOW. 4 little kids kidnapped in Poughkeepsie? FEEL GOOD NOW. Tidal waves wiped out all of Taiwan? FEEL GOOD NOW. Sitting around with others talking about how awful it is or even thinking it to yourself, does no good service for anyone - it just adds in more of the same crappy energy, magnifying the same crappy vibration - but it *does* make you part of the problem. You don't have to feel good about what happened. You don't have to approve of or like what happened. But you must FEEL GOOD NOW or you are lost. We are all lost. Instead of dwelling on whatever bad thing you heard about, roll your thoughts into your good place and FEEL GOOD NOW. Not only will you be elevating your own precious vibration, but you will be elevating the world's vibration just by cleaning up your own. Correcting your error of focus will heal you and change your life. You will surprised to find that, once you do, you will never need medication for depression again because it will have no home in you.
© 2008 Copyright Cynthia Clinton Wholy One Wellness Center
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