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Topic: SURRENDERING
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LMB Moderator Posts: 738 From: Cooltown, USA Registered: Dec 2000
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posted February 05, 2001 01:52 PM
I don't know if this is the appropriate forum to post this on, but I think maybe so. Anyway, I've been thinking a lot about surrendering of the ego lately. I've been thinking about this because of my moods and the struggles I go through every day. I'm an extremely introspective person. I've been in traditional therapy since I was nine years old so I've been made to be very s-elf-aware. Ironically, this past treatment program I was in showed me how horribly UNAWARE I was at many things so now I am trying to be more aware. (why does the word WAR exist within AWARE??) Anyway, I realized I am a very self-absorbed person. And in my efforts of trying to live the beliefs I have (taught to me by Linda, hers-elf), I have been trying to be more loving and giving and compassionate. But that is hard to do when you have severe depression much of the time and are so wrapped up with cellophane so tightly. I want to surrender the ego, that part of me that is so self-absorbed in the negative sense. I don't want to be so concerned about how others view me, I don't want to have so much anger and contempt for people in my life. I don't want to be so s-elf-pitying. *sigh* Any feedback?
LMB
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YIVY Knowflake Posts: 4747 From: Louisiana Registered: Nov 2000
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posted February 05, 2001 04:51 PM
I don't know if this will help, but I have found the more I worry about and 'nag' on something the more muddled I get...Why don't you do this....remember that movie WHAT ABOUT BOB? Well, it seems you need to take a vacation from your problems. Let them slide for a while...quit beating yours-elf on the head if you let loose...if you get angry or egotistical. Just try not to blow up a post office while you are at it Keep posting here and let us absorbe any negative 'vibs'...we should be able to handle it... ------------------
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gooberlily Knowflake Posts: 2296 From: Brooklyn, (and Norwich) NY, USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted February 05, 2001 08:15 PM
LMB, I too was in therapy...from the ages of 8-18. By the age of 22 I was admitted to the hospital 4 times for nervous breakdowns, 3 of those were suicide attempts. I've been on Prozac, Anafranil, Atavan, Xanax, Buspar, everything for depression since the age of 13, and drugs that weren't for depression...and Diphenhydramine for insomnia.I was diagnosed with a chemical/hormonal/neurological imbalance when I was 17 after a battery of tests at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. My depression has not gone away completely, and probably never will. There are days when I don't want to get out of bed, there are nights where I can't sleep. But one of the greatest things that has helped me personally is accepting my depression, and knowing that when I am at the bottom, at some point I will pull myself up again. Life comes in cycles, and so does depression. Major depressive episodes can last for years...depression can last that long. Many times it feels like it will never end, that nothing will be right no matter how hard we try. Don't beat yourself up over whatever you're trying to accomplish while in a bad depression...if something is taking a while to happen, or it doesn't seem to be turning out right depression can make someone hate themself. Self-criticism can be the worst at this point in time. So, you shouldn't have to feel like you should be a more compassionate person, more giving...you have to take care of yourself first and foremost. You are doing the best you can with all you have right now, and nothing is better than doing your best. Depression causes us to be self-protective. It's natural. We're our own worst critic, the last thing we need to hear is something from someone that makes us feel that we are not living up to our potential. Being aware is good, but awareness takes a while to achieve. Take everything one step at a time, one day at a time. The best advice that I have to give is to tell you not to be afraid of your depression. Feel free to express when you are depressed, the reasons why, if you know what they are...and build with it. Turn something that can be destructive (if you hold it inside and sink with it) and make it into something constructive. Create with it. You have a gift for writing, so go with your feelings. Express your joy until the elation is unbearable, express your depression when you are face to face with yourself in your own hell...and most importantly, know that you are not alone and there are people that care about you. IP: Logged |
LMB Moderator Posts: 738 From: Cooltown, USA Registered: Dec 2000
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posted February 05, 2001 10:33 PM
Thank you so much. So much. {{{{hugs}}}}I'm just so tired. LMB IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 22711 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted February 06, 2001 01:36 AM
(((((( ))))))------------------ Consider the circle, measure it please, All its three hundred and sixty degrees. Wasn't that fun, and haven't you found You can do it again, the other way 'round? Now that we know how many degrees, Must be accounted for nice as you please Here come astrologers, what do they say? Divide the degrees in precisely this way. Take thirty degrees for each of the signs It makes a nice wheel divided by lines. Chris Angelino IP: Logged |
gooberlily Knowflake Posts: 2296 From: Brooklyn, (and Norwich) NY, USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted February 06, 2001 08:28 PM
Hugs, hugs and more hugs to you IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 22711 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted June 04, 2001 07:56 PM
Just wanted to move this thread to the top. ------------------ "The ancestor to every action is a thought." EMERSON IP: Logged |
chronicprincess Knowflake Posts: 3080 From: Earth Registered: May 2001
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posted June 05, 2001 07:08 AM
LMB ~I've just read your post from Feb 5 about surrending the ego... This was some months ago and I'm wondering how you are doing? Better? I hope so... I just wanted to add that I think by your post *alone* you did much to surrender your ego, and that you did so here in a place full of "these" 's I think is significant. I think you should visit here alot if you don't already There is so much Love and *freedom* here I don't see how depression <~~~ in prison> could survive for long (simply put, what lives in LindaLand reaches places Dr.'s can not ~ but need to), in my humble opinion. Light ~katii ------------------ "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." "What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
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Ra Moderator Posts: 552 From: Registered: Jun 2005
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posted June 05, 2001 12:52 PM
LMB - I, too, am curious. Have you ever read The Book of Secrets by Osho? If not, I recommend this book to you above all others for this particular subject. Dropping the ego is a main point of this amazing book and it is based upon very ancient Hindu techniques. The entire book is nothing but techniques, 112 of them, and they are amazing. Did I mention it is amazing? As you can tell, I loved it! PS: as an interesting and strangely appropriate tie back into this forum (immortality), in the explanation of the last sutra given, number 112, the very last sentence states: "And if you can die within to your inner space, you will attain to the life which never dies, you will attain to 'amrit', to immortality." IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 22711 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted June 05, 2001 03:38 PM
Ra: Katii, your Posts are so EnLIGHTening. I was not even aware that depression contained "in prison." ------------------ "The ancestor to every action is a thought." EMERSON IP: Logged |
chronicprincess Knowflake Posts: 3080 From: Earth Registered: May 2001
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posted June 05, 2001 05:41 PM
------------------ "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." "What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 22711 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted June 06, 2001 07:55 AM
What other little Lexigram tidbits have you discovered, Katii? ------------------ "The ancestor to every action is a thought." EMERSON IP: Logged |
YIVY Knowflake Posts: 4747 From: Louisiana Registered: Nov 2000
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posted June 06, 2001 10:51 AM
I think the Princess, there has a lot of 'hidden' talents. She is a natural LEXIGRAMAMER...So don't be , Katii, use that GIFT! ------------------
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chronicprincess Knowflake Posts: 3080 From: Earth Registered: May 2001
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posted June 06, 2001 08:00 PM
YIVY, Randall ~Gosh! Thank you for the kind words Ya know Yivy... It's *only* in my 'talents' that I am :dork smiley here: Ah... that must explain why *latent* is there too. Randall, ask and ye shall recieve As it happens, I have been working on BEAUTY BEAUTY (ABETUY) YE BE AT BAY YET YE BE BEAUTY YE A BEAUTY! YET YE BE AT BAY BEAUTY AT BAY BEAT A BAY, BEAUTY! BE YET A BEAUTY BEAUTY, YE BE! ------------------ "...it came in on the sweetest breeze... i could hear it in color..." ~me IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 22711 From: Columbus, GA USA Registered: Nov 2000
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posted April 11, 2002 09:36 AM
------------------ "It is never too late to become what you might have been." George Eliot IP: Logged |
lotusheartone Knowflake Posts: 2774 From: piopolis, quebec canada Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 19, 2005 05:40 PM
Very interesting!Love and Light to ALL IP: Logged | |