Meta-physician on Call: Healing Through Sadness

directing you to seek to rest. It may be a moment of reflection, one that will allow you to integrate any fragmented aspects of Self, to realign that which is out of balance and to make“repairs” on a subconscious level. If you feel a strong need to step outside the flow of time, honor it.

3. Look for the lessons: Pain carries important lessons for us. In addition to the usual and normal feelings of loss, mourning, or the vague unexplained ‘blues’ that affect us all, sadness can alert us to the need to make changes in our lives. Sadness can be an early warning system regarding bigger problems, depression and anxiety which can overwhelm us.

4. Honor sadness. We live in a culture that abhors discomfort of any kind. We don’t want to see it, to face it, or acknowledge how important it is. Pharmaceutical companies and physicians contribute to the belief that we should ‘anesthetize’ ourselves to any negative feelings. The amount of anti-anxiety and antidepressant prescriptions written is mind-boggling. We want to feel ‘great’ at any cost and as a culture we do quite well at drugging ourselves into states of bliss. Excessive use of alcohol, illegal drugs, nicotine, caffeine, sex, excessive work are often used inappropriately to escape from sadness.

5. Embrace life – all of it. Sadness may show us that we need to change our lifestyles, or need more rest or relaxation. Sadness may offer clues that it is time for something new: a job change, a new relationship or attitude adjustment. All reality resides within our own minds. How we process sadness, and the world around us, is to some extent a choice that we all can make.

6. Beware, and take care of, Obsessive

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