When one deems that changes are impossible, a
feeling of helplessness arises. Eventually, all the hope and motivation is lost
just like a simple disconnection in an electric circuit. If not tended to, one
may fall into the grips of depression.
If you are facing a problem in your life for the
first time, what will you do?
You will keep trying until the problem gets
resolved. If you couldn’t solve that problem in two or three tries, you will
start losing hope. Finally, at the end of numerous trials, you will end up with
no further hope or motivation to try again. Soon enough there will come a stage
of total helplessness and depression. Also, ultimately, succumbing to this
helplessness or depression becomes a habit.
How can you get out of it?
Realize yourself that this emotional pain you are
currently experiencing, due to the result of depression, is nothing more than a
false belief about your own ability to take action!! Here, if you try to see
the reality you will understand that it happened just because you allowed your
mind to fool you, and thus helped your mind to develop the habit of
helplessness/depression.
One should know the fact that the real state of
human mind is happiness. If you are feeling helpless or depressed, remind
yourself that this state of mind is not the true one, it is a learned one.
Remember that since this habit of helplessness is a learned one through
practice, you can unlearn it with real knowledge. You can also take a decision
to stop practicing the old habit.
Know that human mind has unlimited potential. But
why do you feel that your capabilities and capacities are limited? It is just
because you have allowed your mind to accept the unrealities (negativities), to
get conditioned by certain false beliefs, to get brainwashed by certain people
or harsh experiences.
So, being helpless or feeling helplessness is your
choice. You are the person to decide whether you should get addicted to the
external forces/factors which are absolutely not in your control, or you should
listen to your true inner being. Cleanse your mind by real knowledge and listen
to the real you inside you, do your Karma/ duties with real involvement. That
will surely lead you to the real happiness that you are seeking.
