hatred and kindness and Adrianne Lenker

When your in a period of depression thoughts of self hatred can occur as  living beings inside of you. That's not much to do about them, they may come from some trauma in the past. Often the feelings are projected on other beings, "you are awful, ugly and fat. Your life is not worth anything" And so on. 

Hopefully you don't say those words out load. If you have meditated you can study the thoughts, accept them and and bit later on understand what their source are. We have to remember that the thoughts are our identity - they change and are just a part of us. 

Another tactic is too see the sorrow and darkness in other people. Some are trying to get rid of their feelings of loneliness or worries by surfing on the net. Some are talking for hours to not let the dark feelings through. 

One trick can be to talk with strangers, maybe just some seconds. Lately I made some complements to colored  bus drivers - just "god music you play" or to a Muslim girl with her hear hidden; "You drive very well" (she really did). Her answer was one hand on her heart. 
Muslim people often have a hard time in Sweden those days. 
One crazy danish guy has burned the Koran in some official places and some Muslim people has attacked  the police because of that recently. 

So especially women with hidden hair has had problems as people can see they are Muslims.
But the women in the bus must have done a hard work to learn the language and to get a  bus-drivers license, 
She is a god example for others; its possible to get a job here too. 

Anyway I felt very good, no place for bad feelings: I made an act of kindness, The women wont remember me long,
But maybe she will remember my words and maybe she will transport them to other people. So I will in a way stay in those people too in a good way. It will be a good continuation .

But you don't have to be depressed to feel low. 

Adrianne Lenker describes this:  

 I think that being alive is intense for most beings in some way. Even the process of being born is an intense one, and coming to see and understand and experience the physical world, and all that goes along with being a physical being, and experiencing all of these different forms of loss throughout life. Death, and people passing away, or relationships passing away, or whatever it is. Being alive and being human, you basically lose everything in your life, and then you die. Without that death, without that loss, nothing would be as we know it, and all of the things that we love and appreciate about life couldn't exist. If there was no such thing as death, there would also probably be no such thing as grandmothers and babies and puppies and seasons. There's a constant process of healing that's happening, that we're constantly wounding and experiencing just the hits of life and nature, and then needing to repair and mend ourselves. Our bodies and our spirits are simultaneously so fragile and sensitive, and then at the same time resilient. And we're somehow caught in between this double infinity web, where we can't see anything beyond, before or after.


She describes the writing of a song as giving love to herself.
And that can be heard in her songs, and the love spreads out to the listener- 
that's a good cure for dark feelings too: 




 


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