Day 136 Feed Your Love, Not Your Suffering
Day 136 Feed Your Love, Not Your Suffering
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Feed Your Love, Not Your Suffering
NOTHING CAN survive without food, not even suffer-ing. No animal or plant can survive without food. In order for our love to survive, we have to feed it. If we don't feed it, or we feed it the wrong kind of nutrients, our love will die. In a short time, our love can turn into hate. Our suffering, our depression also needs food to survive. If our depression refuses to go away, it's because we keep feeding it daily. We can look deeply into the source of nutrition that is feeding our suffering.
I love this, except the depression but. You can't will away a chemical imbalance.
He's talking about skillful means, not will.
There's a subtle difference and I 100% feel you (I have PTSD myself from childhood abuse and sometimes get accused of choosing to see the world as hostile).
SSRIs can be a skillful means. Thays opinion is that meditation with a spiritual community and limiting toxic inputs is also a skillful means.
Personally, I found the later skillful means superior for my own mental health as the former caused withdrawal and had other side effects.
But, they're not mutually exclusive either, and I was on an SNRI when I established a practice.
Also, the body is not separate from the mind. Calming both with meditation balances hormones in both (serotonin is a hormone ). This isn't mind over body but more similar to how exercise improves physical and mental health.
I. E. Not will, but skillful means.