"Humanity's inherent nature is to be curious, mild, intimate, vulnerable, affectionate, nurturing... and to completely and safely express all emotions. When exercise volition we stop training people to exist otherwise?"
~GORDON CLAY
We were not ever designed to resist ourselves. We were designed, by God in the beginning, to declare a healthy integrity with ourselves. But our immoral natures have made it impossible in spite of us to achieve our design. We endeavour and strive since a healthy integrity with ourselves, solitary to fall short regularly. This is discouraging; it have power to be depressing.
As a result, we harvested land walk around with a multiplicity of masks; one and the other designed to paint a pleasant being when reality can't be borne up the soul - when reality is precisely far too harsh to cope with; when it's too scary we have power to't handle the truth.
It is these masking behaviours we 'consume by use' as we go about our lives - bad temper, workaholism, avoidance behaviours, frequent changes of piece of work/church/relationship, physical illness, pouting/brooding/chut, etc - that take us further at a distance from that crucial intimacy we distress with ourselves. How are we continually to know God if we at no time know ourselves?
God has designed us, again, to have existence at home with the truth surrounding ourselves, to accept same and bloom from the core, observable reality. And this reality about ourselves is not as noxious as we often make it abroad to be. Sure, we are sinners and we cannot refrain from but make errors and mistakes and be under the necessity slips through life. We will disappoint rabble. We will disappoint ourselves. But in that place is a simple fact we exigency to take into account that devise ward away many risk factors touching depression.
We need to accept ourselves at the same time that we are - as being good sufficiency.
Having accepted ourselves as we are, we neither avoid ourselves nor are we indignant with ourselves. Having accepted ourselves similar to we are, we don't profess to be someone we are not. We don't hide away from our vital identity.
When we feature as persons who have a simple acceptance of ourselves we are a great deal of less prone to depression because we be delivered of enough integrity of intimacy, so neither is life a threat nor are we a denunciation to ourselves.
Our challenge, if we poverty a vibrant and healthy spirituality, to on foot with a renewed sense of emotional stableness, is to work on attitudes well-nigh ourselves and our situations: we take who we are in the given pecuniary standing that are thrust toward us in our diurnal living.
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We were never designed to stand against intimacy with ourselves. We were designed, means of God from the beginning, to affirm a healthy integrity with ourselves. Stripping gone the masks we move on into each intimacy with ourselves that can indite our depressive thoughts. Life is near acceptance - of us, as individuals, and of our pecuniary standing. When we reach acceptance, life makes signification.
© 2013 S. J. Wickham.
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