Day 1: Stopping Depression - Part I
http://atravelersjourneytolife.blogspot.com/2012/05/day-1-stopping-depression-part-i.html
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to exist within depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to become one and equal to depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to succumb to depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to become a slave to depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that I am incapable of stopping depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that depression has power over me and because of that I cannot stop it.
I forgive myself that I have NOT accepted and allowed myself to realize that I am able to stop depression by making the decision to stop and no longer accept and allow myself to exist in depression.
I forgive myself that I have NOT accepted and allowed myself to realize that the decision in stopping depression has to be ABSOLUTE because I realize I am the only one in my world who is able to stop the depression because I allow it to exist within me.
From this, I forgive myself that I have NOT accepted and allowed myself to realize that breathing and writing are tools of support in stopping depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to go into conflict with myself as depression instead of standing one and equal as the depression and directing myself to stop.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to think that sleep will stop my depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to manipulate myself in sleeping because I believe that sleep will help my depression go away, instead I realize that sleeping actually fuels depression.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to hide depression through sleeping.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to perceive depression as a ‘cry for help’. I realize that this ‘cry for help’ is me giving up on myself and seeking a point of salvation from someone to save me from the depression, instead stopping the depression myself.
I forgive myself that I have not accepted and allowed myself to see that this point of ‘crying out for help’ and looking for a point of salvation is connected to religion in how I had in my life depended on religious figures and angels to save me from the conflict and turmoil within. I see here that not even an angel can save me from the conflict within, because if they could, the conflict would have been stopped now and the world would be a very different place.
So I understand within this that I am the only one in my life who is actually able to stop the depression and conflict within – and to do so, I stop myself through supporting myself in breathing, writing out my patterns of conflict, and forgiving myself and script myself a correction so when I face the point of depression/conflict again, I know how to direct myself.
I forgive myself that I have NOT accepted and allowed myself to realize that this cry for help is me abdicating my responsibility towards myself through the belief that I cannot stop the depression and it has too much of a hold on me.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that depression has too much of a hold on me.
I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to feel chained to my depression --chained in that I cannot break free. Instead I realize that I have created and used depression as an excuse to not change.
Change. I see here that depression is connected to resistance to change...
(From this point on -- two memories have come up in relation to depression that will be walked in the next blog posts to come…)
Self Corrective Statements:
I commit myself to stop depression through supporting myself in breathing, writing, self forgiveness, self honesty, and self corrective statements to release myself from the chains that hold me down from actually changing myself into a being that is best for all life.
I commit myself to utlize self-will and self-power to stop depression.
I find hobbies/activities that assist and support me in participating here in the physical reality so that I do not delve into depression.
I commit myself to write out one pattern every day that does not serve me or anyone else in this world for the next 7 years and use the tools of support to stop abusive patterns that in no way support life.
I commit myself to find solutions that will stop patterns that do not serve me or anyone else in this world and walk myself as the solution as practically as I can.