Meta-physician on Call: Healing Through Sadness

and in need of repair and healing. As human beings we are not expected to be perfect, only participate in the healing of ourselves and the world. Healing, from this vantage point, becomes the essence of the metaphysical journey toward wholeness.

Buddhists recognize suffering is a universal human experience, and that sadness is not punishment. Rather, it is cue from our body, mind and soul that we need to take a moment to do a reality check of our emotional state and get to the source of the feelings. Just as physical pain is necessary to alert us that our body needs immediate attention, sadness serves the same function for our emotional self. Sadness can help us diagnose our emotional ailments. Therefore, rather than deny sadness, we should welcome it as a gift for healing.

Just think of the last time you felt sad. Did you want to retreat to your bed, to lie down, to sleep? Did you want to meditate or go for a walk? How many of us actually give ourselves permission to do that? We may think of that as escapism or being wimpy. Instead many of us react by distracting ourselves with more ‘doings’—work, play, sex, drugs can become a way of avoiding facing our problems. Rather than just ‘do’ something, we should look within and ‘be there’ with our sadness.

Dr. Steve’s Prescription:

1. Revisit your concept of the ‘dark emotions’. They are normal. They are a part of every human beings life, there to teach us how to move forward in spite of them. Life without sadness would render joy meaningless.

2. Take time to rest. Rather than reach for something that will take you away from the sadness, lay down with it. Feeling sad may be your Higher Self

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