Spiritual Depression
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The Unbroken Circle - The Musical Heritage Of The Carter Family List Price: $15.98 Sale Price: $6.95  |
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The title of this tribute to the Carter Family alludes to their best-known spiritual, "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." While that standard isn't included here, the roster of artists renews the spirit of the circle, a familial legacy that encompasses Mother Maybelle's daughter June Carter Cash, June's husband Johnny Cash, Johnny's daughter Rosanne Cash, and generations of artists inspired by them... |
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What is Depression? List Price: $12.95 Sale Price: $12.95 |
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Everybody gets "the blues", but serious depression is a lot more common than most people think. One out of four women will have a classic, major depressive episode at some point in their lives. This cd examines the spectrum of depression -- from normal "blues" to major disorder, which is debilitating and life-threatening... |
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Vedic Mantras - To Overcome Fear, Anxiety and Depression Sale Price: $54.98 |
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It's A Wonderful Life - Original Uncut Version Sale Price: $10.00 |
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It's A Wonderful Life (1946), originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal favorite - it was also James Stewart's favorite of all his feature films... |
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Bill Moyers Journal - PBS : Parker Palmer on Spiritual Wholeness During Crashing Economy / Robert G. Kaiser on Washington Lobbyist Culture Sale Price: $19.99 |
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In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers sits down with Parker Palmer, founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, for a conversation about maintaining spiritual wholeness even as the economy and political order seem to be coming apart... |
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FRANKINCENSE COMPOUND CLEARS NEGATIVE ENERGY AND LIFTS YOUR SPIRITS HIGHER List Price: $12.99 Sale Price: $14.99 |
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Frankincense Compound is Number 1 and is great for purifying areas with negative energy. Compound In Frankincense Might Help Depression and Anxiety. " .. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, describe how burning frankincense (resin from the Boswellia plant) activates poorly understood ion channels in the brain to alleviate anxiety or depression... |
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Unfolding Soul List Price: $0.99 |
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What has been written has been rewritten. What has been spoken has been forgotten. What is inscribed in the heart and the soul are eternal. Timeless, and beyond manipulation, unconditional love is forever unfolding... |
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Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind List Price: $14.99 Sale Price: $7.39 |
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There's a War Going On And Your Mind Is The Battlefield. If you're one of millions who suffer from worry, doubt, confusion, depression, anger or condemnation, you are experiencing an attack in you |
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Guided Mindfulness Meditation List Price: $29.95 Sale Price: $16.36 |
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Perhaps no other person has done more to bring mindfulness meditation into the contemporary landscape of America than Jon Kabat-Zinn. Th rough a number of research studies, and through Kabat-Zinn's pioneering work at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he is founder of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic, mindfulness is finally being recognized as a highly effective tool for dealing with stress, chronic pain, and other illnesses... |
The Wisdom Within Depression: A Spiritual View
If it can be said that there is wisdom to be gained through hardship or suffering that we would not freely choose, then it can also be said that there is deep learning and truth to be gained through the experience of depression in all its many forms . As with all experiences that are painful and that create limitation, the deeper self or soul can bring out of this, something valuable for the heart and for the spirit. Though this may not immediately be apparent to the self in the midst of pain, grief, or sorrow, what has limitation on the one side, offers the possibility for learning and for greater life on the other.
This paradox is hard for the human self to grasp, because the human response to suffering is to want it to end, and the human heart cannot help but believe that what feels bad - what deprives it of joy, love, meaning, hope, and energy - cannot be the source of something good. However, the perceptions of the soul and the choices that the soul makes during a time of pain or limitation are invisible, and everything depends upon the choices that are made.
For example, it is possible, as a result of feeling disconnected from joy or meaning in life, to begin to seek that joy with a fuller heart, to value life more, to hope for the possibility of experiencing one clear and pure sunlit day without the cloud of sorrow on the mind or in the heart. It is possible in the presence of aloneness or isolation to feel the heart longing more for love and connection. And it is possible to feel, in the presence of the wish to die, an even greater wish to live. These are the choices of the soul. In fact, they are more 'orientations' than choices and they turn the inner self in the direction of pursuing the fulfillment that is needed and toward new possibilities for growth. In this sense, though depression may be a 'dark night of the soul' which we would not choose and in which it may appear that every light has gone out, the soul, within its own domain, continues to support the seeking of that light and continues to radiate light toward the self that suffers and struggles. For this reason, it would be well to look at all forms of depression as a spiritual crisis in its underpinnings, for although no positive movement may be visible on the mental or emotional levels, on the level of spirit and soul a question is being asked and a question is being answered all of the time, namely, 'what is this life about, what is its value, and what am I doing in it'?
Whether flooded with feelings, or numb and experiencing merely a sense of deadness, on the level of the soul a groping movement is taking place during this dark and painful night - a search for a way toward the light that is, for the moment, invisible. In the blackness, there is a sharpening of vision as one seeks the promise of the light, and pursues the elusive hope of an end to darkness. Even on the conscious level, where everything may feel quite bleak, there is often a reaching out toward that which may have seemed impossibly far away before, namely, to the awareness, however tentative, of our Divine and holy self, the center of our spiritual being.
For those for whom the higher self or soul remains a hypothesis rather than a reality, this type of understanding may seem invented. However, this, too, is a choice that the inner self must make - whether to adhere to a perspective which emphasizes indifference, loss, randomness, deprivation, and lack in life, or to believe that at all times there is a purpose behind the manifestation of what life brings to us, and that this purpose, when found, can become the springboard to a new and more vital sense of ourselves and of life.
About the Author
For other writings by Julie Redstone, see Pathways of Light -
http://lightomega.org/PathwaysofLight.html
, a part of
http://lightomega.org
. To learn more about holding depression within a spiritual perspective, see the e-mailed "Calendar of Healing" -
http://lightomega.org/CH/Cal-Healing.html
.
