Depression is like Gravity

Living With depression is like flying in a hang glider; you are subjected to the forces around you. you can't speed up or slow down but with skill you can harness the wind and survived the storms as you build strength and adaptability, but there is always something pulling you down. You can figure out how to use the wind to rise in altitude but even the tiniest of obstacles can alter your course. There is no self propulsion in this vessel it; goes at a speed dictated by the winds and there is not much you can do about it. The only way out is when you land, only one shot at this; no do overs no mulligans.

As we go about our lives navigating the obstacles, the biggest ones, like tall trees, we can see coming; some can obscure view like fog; some seemingly come out of nowhere like birds. Regardless of the obstacles around you, there is always something you are trying to overcome: this unyielding downward pull that you spend your entire life trying to manage so that you can stay in flight. Sometimes you find a good wind current that will help elevate you and shield you from that downward pull, so you can rest- a little -you have to stay diligent or something so tiny as a gnat can derail your efforts in an instant. Staying in that upward lyft isn't about being better higher than anyone else on this journey; my biggest competition is this downward force, it is depression. And Id love to help you finish your race. I've never been hang gliding but I imagine it's pretty difficult as you are subjected to forces beyond your control and all you really can do is steer and hope for the best; navigating life with depression is kind of like that.

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All of the circumstances can lineup and look like they should be perfect you might have the perfect job the perfect family the perfect house everything from the outside seems perfect. But it's just a mask. Underneath a mask your struggling to hold it all together. Each. And. Every. Day. Because perfection is prison. It is the prison that keeps us in the mental cycles.

I was listening to a Podcast the other day and they were talking about the law of attraction along with the commandments that are the basis of Judeo-Christian belief systems. In this Podcast she talked about Goal setting and how commandments are guidelines or even strategies to achieve those goals. In this podcast, she spoke about how easy it is to stay in a given mind state, such as negativity or scarcity snd that when we think that way,, its what we will see and think about, and it behind to feed itself. She talked about how when we prsy. We have a formula for prayer that focuses on gratitude and petition, and how going into that way of thinking helps to break that thought cycle helps to move the misplace to a more positive state. It's really hard to break out of those negativity cycles I actually have to stop whatever I am doing I have to change my environment have to change something in order to escape the thoughts spiral and when she talked about that and the mind shift it made perfect sense.Because the more I pray and the more I would read scripture I would start to have more positive thoughts the thoughts in my mind were more positive I was thinking about the things that were grateful for thinking about the things I was looking for as I was praying because that is how we are taught to pray thank petition praise. Gratitude, trusting God, holding space for myself to heal. These are the things. Reminding myself what is a truth and what is a thought. These are some of the upward currents I use.

*Podcast referenced was "Better than Happy" with Jody Moore