Comments on: When Your Thoughts Go Wild

By: Melisa

Melisa — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:31:45 +0000

When you say it . . when you see PASSION it makes complete sense. but when i am wrapped up in the downward spiral there is nothing positive about it, i feel trapped by these interests and thoughts. but when you look at it in a different light everything changes. i will have to journal about this . . .ask myself these questions. i will let you know how it goes!

Thanks – you always manage to reveal a different side that i can believe.
melisa

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:02:00 +0000

Hi Melisa,

What I hear from you is PASSION! You have to be very passionate about environmentalism and animal rights to be depressed about not being able to help. As the saying goes “you have to be the change you want to see in the world.” You can’t help the situation or yourself, if you feel powerless and depressed about the issue. That doesn’t mean disregard the depression you feel when thinking about these topics. Simply be aware of how deeply you care about the issues. The ask yourself, what message is being depressed about these social conditions telling you? How can you use that message for the greater good?

Give it a try, I’d love to hear how it goes:)

XO
Laura

By: Melisa

Melisa — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:53:57 +0000

very timely blog post . . . for me at least. just last night i was wrapped in one of my (what now seems like) weekly downward spirals. only this week, the thoughts were more catastrophic – in a global sense. one of my interests is environmentalism, another is animal rights. these two interests are now making me depressed. it seems easier to deal with personal thoughts – thoughts of not being good enough, etc – than these world issues that are completely out of my control. how does this exercise work on these global, end of days, thoughts? i can’t make the connection because i feel useless in helping humans, animals, the planet escape all these terrible things i keep reading about!