How does one recapture the willpower, ability and the zest for life?
We need to start by asking ourselves why we feel depressed, what has been the cause that has triggered depression in us, normally the cause is linked to failed expectations and delusions.
The moment we have expectations, we risk delusions, the more projects we make the more we want, and the more we are risking failure, and so we become depressed.
The positive side of depression is that it makes us more introspective, because when we are depressed we are no longer interested in what is happening around us, we consider it a threat, and we need to defend ourselves from it.
Therefore, withdrawing into ourselves we can find the resourcefulness to come out of the depression.
Obviously this part is linked to the emotional drive, but then this also affects the physical side, because there is a physicality, a chemistry that has repercussions on the person’s state of mind.
To come out of depression we need to take action both emotionally and physically.
We also need to understand, that delusions are the daily bread of Life, and those who fall into depression have not understood that these delusions can be lessons that Life is offering us to make us reflect. Instead, we experience them as an affront, an insult we do not deserve.
All this leads the human being towards depression, with the loss of self-esteem and the joy of living.
What really helps the depressed person to free himself from this situation, is the awareness of this mechanism: he is a cell that is part of the Whole, and if he is this cell of the Whole, he can use everything that the Whole can give him. Just like the cell of a body does not ask for blood and oxygen, because it is the body itself that provides what the cell needs. At the same time, Life must be lived with relativity, because if that situation has failed your expectations, evidently that was not the result you should have achieved.
If we want to feel that we are a cell that is part of the Whole, but we see ourselves as a personality, then every insult that life gives us is devastating. If on the other hand I am conscious of being a cell fluctuating in the Whole, and understand that the purpose of my Life is that of helping Evolution, then my task is to do the best I can in the situations Life and Evolution give me.
If I act in this way, I am giving the right information to my Energy, and I am helping Evolution.