HEALTH
ARTICLE
The Purpose of
DEPRESSION
and DISEASE
By Blake Bauer
Everything happens for a reason, including health challenges of the mind
and body. Although this may be difficult to accept, my view is that we
make ourselves sick and miserable looking for love and attention outside
ourselves. We learn from a young age to seek mom and dad’s conditional
love in order to survive but it is often at the expense of being true to
ourselves and causes us harm.
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f we never wake up to this unhealthy internal dynamic, it eventually leads to depression and disease. The suffering in our
body and mind are cries from our soul,
from God and the Universe, calling us
back home to ourselves and to the source
of peace and strength within.
As adults we’ve become accustomed to living
with fears of losing love, attention, approval, and
security. We learned to feel guilty early in life about
expressing what we need to be healthy and happy,
because this is somehow too selfish or criticized as
wrong, when in reality everyone is actually selfish
whether they’re aware of it or not. Now, after years
of pleasing others and not taking care of ourselves,
we often find ourselves unhappy, unwell, and full
of resentment, anger and regret.
Confused, we ask ourselves how did I get here?
No one is a bad person for wanting to live a deeply
fulfilling and authentic life. Yet we feel shame for
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