In this episode of her new podcast This Mystic Life Sarah shares Wisdom from the Weeds: a quick look at why we get stuck when we feel depressed. Transcript and audio below!
Episode: Wisdom From the Weeds
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“There is no wave that is going to drown you
when you recognize you are the ocean.
You must instead sink into the heart of the sea and be Seen.
Be seen as Who You Are and what is for you.
And when you comfort yourself thus
by allowing The Spirit of all that is,
that knows what’s best for all in every circumstance,
to surround and envelop and enclose you.
Then everything that is not that,
that is not Who You Are
is smothered out.”
—Sarah, Wisdom from the Weeds
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Belie /bĭ-lī′/
transitive verb
To give a false representation to; misrepresent.
To show to be false; To contradict.
To give a false representation or account of.
To tell lie about; to slander.
To mimic; to counterfeit.
To fill with lies.
TRANSCRIPT
The greatest difficulty for people in a depressed state is that they try to rise out of it, to rise above it. But this inherently has them fighting the condition or state that they perceive themselves to be in.
Instead, what is required is that they question the perceived state, the beliefs that underpin it, and the purpose they have given it. Every state has a meaning and therefore underneath and underlying it—lies the conditions of fear.
These lies, these conditions, these unquestioned beliefs and often competing desires deny the very truth of what is the reality of the one watching. You cannot move into any new state, or space in identity if you are in denial of the truth of your identity.
You must first question your perception. Hold it to the light and see that you are deceived in who you are. And then what occurs is a dropping down back beneath this lie onto the feather bed of what has always been true. This is how we become convinced again and again. Not by fighting our perceptual state and reinforcing the lie, but instead by sinking back beyond and not working through, or fighting to get above.
There is no wave that is going to drown you when you recognize you are the ocean. You must instead sink into the heart of the sea and be Seen. Be seen as Who You Are and what is for you. And when you comfort yourself thus by allowing The Spirit of all that is, that knows what’s best for all in every circumstance, to surround and envelop and enclose you. Then everything that is not that, that is not Who You Are is smothered out.
It is extinguished.
There can be no oxygen given to this thought of lies, this idea of beliefs that belie The Truth of Who You Are. And so in that absence, you are once again simply restored to the truth of who you are by the absence of the lie. By the absence of energizing that lie by either fighting it, to rise above it or fighting it to stay alive.
You must die to the lie and be reborn in the truth of who you are, in every moment.
The correction of fear is your responsibility.
When you ask for release from fear,
you are implying that it is not.
You should ask, instead,
for help in the conditions that have brought the fear about.
These conditions always entail a willingness to be separate.
At that level you can help it.
You are much too tolerant of mind wandering,
and are passively condoning your mind’s miscreations.
The particular result does not matter,
but the fundamental error does.
The correction is always the same.
Before you choose to do anything,
ask me if your choice is in accord with mine.
If you are sure that it is, there will be no fear.
(ACIM, T-2.VI.4:1-10)
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