Depression is the stop sign of the soul. Say it again. "Depression is the stop sign of the soul." Stop here, go no further, you are going the wrong way!

Depression often follows when we buried sadness, fear, anger, or grief. Buried emotions also cause a loss of energy and depression.

Depression is actually an ingenious survival mechanism when we are so "off our path" that our mind/body/spirit has no choice but to stop us from moving forward.

Depression takes over and consumes us when what we are doing and where we are going in our life isn't what we really want, when something that we are doing in our life does not reflect who we really are. In fact, we can consider the loss of energy that is depression, as our emergency break.

The intensification of depression when masked or ignored and buried is loss of self; loss of life's purpose; physical illness; suicidal urges.

Ask The Questions!

  1. Whose is it?

  2. What do I need to know or do about it?

  3. Has it all gone yet? Is there any depression left? If the depression did not get less at all, did not even start to shift, then what you came up with is not the message that you soul is trying to give you. If it lightened up but did not go completely, then there is still something else that your soul wants you to know or do. Keep asking the first two questions until the depression has all gone.

In my experience there are a lot of buried messages from our souls involved by the time we hit depression. Some of these messages are still important, some not. You can probably expect to get one lot of answers that lift your depression and then have other layers of "not quite right" pop up for you to have a look at.

Be aware that there are physical causes of depression too. Some chemicals that we use in modern society, on farms and in cities, mimic hormones and can cause massive hormonal upsets in our systems. The "feel good" brain chemicals are all part of the intricately balanced endocrine system and are dramatically affected by hormone upsets.

Knowing when to seek help is a strength, not a weakness.