{ jc torres }

Closing cycles.

Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life.

Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust.

Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.

- Paulo Coehlo

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Oct
1st

Sat

If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me—the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the appreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart—I would say, ‘This is a Faustian bargain! Give me my depressions. Let the darkness descend. But do not take away the gifts that depression, with the help of some unseen hand, has dredged up from the deep ocean of my soul and strewn along the shores of my life. I can endure darkness if I must; but I cannot live without these gifts. I cannot live without my soul.

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Sep
25th

Sun

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. It seems to me, however, that this can well be described as the general neurosis of our time.

— Carl Gustav Jung

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Good grief, Charlie Brown!

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Sep
4th

Sun

The Hive Data on Depression Cures. I see exercise high on that list.

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The first duty of love is to listen.

— Paul Tillich

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No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

— Albert Einstein

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Aug
15th

Mon

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

— Rollo May, Love and Will (1969) p. 243

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The Neuroscience of Changing Toxic Thinking Patterns (Psych Central)

A very helpful overview of the interplay between our conscious and unconscious minds, and the role our own thoughts play in determining how we act and feel.

Excerpt:

Whether you understand its messages or not, your subconscious continually communicates with you through emotion-based action-signals to let you know where you are in relation to where you want to be. You’re not going to like this, however: Some of the most useful action signals are in the form of painful emotions.

Upsetting emotions, such as disappointment, unmet expectations or fears are useful feedback. They are action signals letting you know you are wired with high standards and want to do better (and are trying to figure out how!). Similarly, feelings of sadness, loneliness, detachment help you get in touch with your inner drives to meaningfully connect and contribute to others and life.

Painful emotions, one can say, are continual reminders that, even though you’re never going to achieve perfection, nevertheless, you are wired to figure out how to consciously live an optimally fulfilling, meaningful life (and, that your thinking patterns may be blocking your efforts, and thus, need your attention).

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One does not become fully human painlessly.

— Rollo May, Foreword to Existential-Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology (1978) by Ronald S. Valle and Mark King

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Aug
12th

Fri

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