The Secret to Getting Through the "Dark Night of the Soul" | SuperSoul Sunday | OWN

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[@amandarivera9753]

I send out so much compassion, peace and patience for anyone going through this it gets worst before it gets better and I know we will all get pass this

[@bw2806]

Thank you ♡

[@xw6475]

Thank you so much!! Much strength and compassion, peace to you!!

[@alinawazthaver]

Thank you. :)

[@savingJobutupaki]

Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

[@dreamsaresharedhere_]

The way this man explains the dark night is spot on for me. Tack on the major symptoms of depression like disinterest, lack of energy, disconnect from inspiration etc.. the past few weeks have been the worst of it. I feel like I can’t go on sometimes. And I feel so guilty on top of it all. I have no job, spread no love, create no magic.. but I never lost hope that this will pass like everything else. And with this truth in mind I’m able to make little breakthroughs during my toughest times by just sitting with the pain. Big help. Anicca. This too shall pass

[@AK-fd4ev]

@@NEbluefire Sounds like you've been through it? Are you still in it? Would love to hear more. I'm in it (years in) and it's like devastation... over and over again. Very hard to keep trusting.

[@zerogravity213]

@@NEbluefire I think it depend on the person if they mediate or not

[@jenniferanderson8920]

It will queen

[@gwynnethappelgryn7541]

Omg,I feel exactly like you do😄and also going through the dark night.Couldnt believe theres someone else that feels the same as I do..Thank you for sharing,you really blessed me.

[@johnnymarine554]

AMEN......i am in the same spot right now!

[@genevievecaballero4104]

Dark nights of the soul is when most of the work begins. Healing trauma, discovering truths. Each person has their own way of experiencing this and dealing with it. I liken it to a sort of spiritual depression. I have been thru deep depressions before I connected with my spiritual self, and for me, the dark night of soul does not weigh on me as heavy anymore since walking with God ❤

[@JamilaRajab]

Going through it. Thought I was running crazy, but am glad to know that am transitioning.

[@newlife4646]

Excruciatingly painful. I'm not going to make it.

[@saraeli8626]

yes you are!

[@JaneDoe-qy5jz]

@@newlife4646 I hope you did. I really do. Im going through it too. I need to know there is hope. I think im dying sometimes. Maybe i am. Im to the point I welcome it. I have tried not resisting. Ive tried to face it head on. Im really at a loss. VC

[@newlife4646]

@@JaneDoe-qy5jz I'm still here. Still have ups and downs but I feel the worst is over. I know exactly what you are saying. Hang in there. whatever you have to do to keep going. It was the thought of my kids that kept me going.

[@kenadhitya]

I am just starting to slowly emerge from this phase of my life. It was the most ego-breaking, terrifying, depressing, & yet most rewarding thing that ever could happen for me. I am starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel, as cliche as it might sound. I am stronger in mind, body & spirit like never before. It's really a blessing in disguise. I hope this brings hope to anyone going through this right now.

[@corrynnjoy3334]

This was the most painful yet beautiful thing I have ever experienced. Grateful. So much love and light to those of you who are experiencing this. You are not alone, the universe has you. We are one.

[@theresabogart15]

I have just emerged from this. It is almost impossible to find words for this experience that are relatable when someone has not been through it. They may think they grasp what the experience is like but it's not possible...in my opinion, it is a spiritual rite of passage and I do not think everyone is called to it...or if they are, it is not with equal depth or gravity. I felt so pulled down I wondered if I would ever feel the urge to pick myself back up again.

[@OvoxoKids]

Theresa Bogart do you have any tips to get through it

[@vnguyen38]

How did it last for you.

[@rebeccashaheen9620]

Theresa Bogart I wish I was never called to it trying to find the gratitude for it the love in the details of it ...what's gives me comfort though is that all great masters went through the dark night...it is for those ready to transcend an old consciousness 🦋🙏

[@lisafrank6001]

I'm there.

[@tessnone9428]

Thank you for your input, Theresa’s spiritual ego.

[@emajej_]

Glad to know that term exists. Thought I was going crazy from time to time

[@doobieddooo]

emajej check out Dark Night of the Soul (Saint John of the Cross)

[@lisac8509]

The dark night of the soul is a one time enlightenment.

[@Ayunix1]

For anyone who is going through the Dark Night of the Soul I believe I've been in the dark night of the soul for a couple of months and finally I am starting to see the light. What I found helped a lot is to remain present and also spending more time by myself. Good luck!

[@MeowMeow-up9mp]

let it happen :) everything is going to be ok, be in the present moment and express everything you feel. if you want to cry do it dont ceep it inside of you. you are not alone, you gonna feel alone but you have the univers:)and dont freak out, be calm..nothing lasts forever. and everything happend for a reason, and you know that !. YOU ARE NOT CAZY YOU ARE AWAKEN be proud ! accept your emotions and your thoghts. when i was in the dark night of the soul i was 14 and meditating for 3 months only, it was night and i was out with my friend, and suddenly i realized that nothing has meaning,i didnt knew anything anymore, my life is an illusion and everything is ment do be. i had soo many questions. i felt me head vibrating.. at the beging i wouldnt have it every night. but as the time pasts i will have it more and more often until i will have it EVERY time the sun will fall... even if i was out or in my house..i felt that everything is an illusion...i started crying for no reason and feeling anxiety and all the bad feeling didnt know why. i was just fine my emotions didnt connect with my thoghts my mind had possitive thoghts...i just was leting out everything i had inside of me, every bad feeling ..i learnd from that i allways have to express my feelings and let go and that i didnt have a mask anymore.. i had the dark night of the soul for 9 months... it was hard. is stopt when i met my boyfriend when i was with him i would have it but when the time pasts i will had it not so often. now i dont have it anymore. but i dont feel like im the same person. i just let the things happen.. i feel one with all and not separate. and i know that we have only are selfs. now im 16 and trying for my best. everything is going to be ok ! . do possitive thoghts and eat well. ( i also was a vegan at my 14 and is halped alot for my awakening )

[@piyumiwijesundera4180]

Thank you so much :) This helped me a lot !

[@MeowMeow-up9mp]

@@piyumiwijesundera4180 sending much love to you

[@66lordez50]

stop spreading fear g

[@softersoundsasmr]

God bless you

[@Fascistbeast]

Good advice Like a caterpillar that is suffering for a while in the cocoon but has finally evolved 🦋 Give yourself patience and understanding

[@missmimi6817]

The difference is that DNOS never ends because once you open that door there's no going back.

[@shawnthompson3936]

I was in this like a year ago. I still remember it like yesterday. I was so sad even through I had no reason and just felt empty and depress. I felt so dark and messed up inside. I'm still putting together the piece and learning about this.

[@dannysze8183]

I am through the dark night of the soul and I thought that I had schizophrenia. I went to see psychiatric professionals. now I know what was going on. you feel everyone you met are enemies even your friends and families. you are completely isolated and I pray every day.

[@jwyzebeatz]

Finally, a comment I can 100% relate to...Kinda going through this now...having issues trusting anyone

[@dannysze8183]

@@jwyzebeatz very tough. good luck🥰

[@vedantsingla1721]

I am experiencing it too

[@MusicCrackhead]

When the feelings of the dark night intensify, breathe and hold on to the steadiness and smoothness of the breath. You will tame the unknown’s intensity and find comfort in it.

[@candyg06]

im really glad he put the words out there bcoz i just thought of myself as crazy or oversensitive.. im losing what i was, i can feel something different emerging but i have no clue as to what it is yet.. i just know it's something better..but i want to speed it up. just want to help it come out a bit faster , you know..

[@Fergusbaddog]

lizzyjodreamer, Wearing the inside out, Pink Floyd. Hope it speaks to you like it did me.

[@cyndiet4960]

Iam curious, are u still going through this?

[@MrSuperbluesky]

vinicius pereira thank you

[@callmesharyu7050]

I am Cyndie. Its tricky phase I must tell you. Where are you now

[@ringodaisy7]

Everything is ok and will be ok. I've had a few dark knight of the soul periods in my life and there was always that lingering thought of "I hate where I'm at, I shouldn't be here." But throughout time, I've realized that I am meant to be exactly where I am and that there's a realization about myself that needs to happen. Things sometimes are stuck because there's a move to be made that is yet to be seen. With each passing moment that we realize that everything is temporary and we are connected to each other through source, , we experience the death of who we were. Dark knight of the soul is about finding self awareness, healing and merging into what is the ultimate spirit, God or Brahman or whatever higher spirit one believes in.

[@HeyLila78]

It doesn’t just have to be a spiritual awakening - my understanding is that it could be any major life-changing event, ie. divorce. Basically some experience of deep loss that changes who and what you are, including what/who you lived for and your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual self-identity.

[@nicselectronics81]

Mine was being discarded after 39 years of abuse and neglect.

[@GoddessLuna9]

Amen. I am in this process right now. Thank you for sharing

[@GoddessLuna9]

OWN Thank you!

[@LightWarrior-kf7en]

Me too

[@ayeshazulfi1536]

Did it end?

[@manal8386]

I watched tens of videos about the dark night of the soul but no one explained it the way you did so simple and clear in this short video. Thank you from the bottom of my heart 💓

[@gracebyChrist2022]

i am currently at the beginning of dark night.. at first i thought, 'it isn't that bad' but as weeks passed, it feels like i am loosing myself.. i am not who i used to be and i do not like my current self but, i do understand why i am this way right now it feels like being in a cocoon where i do not want to give nor receive energy from outside, like a personal spiritual lockdown, but i do hope and believe that at the end of this, a stronger, whole version of me shall emerge

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus. The Lord didn't create us to be unthinking robots. Allow him to fill you instead with his Holy Spirit. He is not forceful. You won't lose control of your body. He will gently guide you. Know Jesus know peace. He loves you 💗

[@gracebyChrist2022]

@@evangelesong6319 thank you for this, i'm strengthened. it's been 2 years since and indeed, these things are open doors for demons, and indeed, a demon entered my body and had been tormenting me, daily for 2 years now.. i ask for prayer for deliverance.

[@shayeromer1495]

damn i feel this. Its crazy how my ego or fear try to convince me that change is bad, or trying new things won't make me happy because :whats the point"... but truth is, trying those new things that terrify me or breaking that resistance of change is what is going to help me find that inner peace.

[@nickyeve8894]

Says one who DIDN’T clearly experience it. If you do go though it , then you’re so swallowed by grief, pain, confusion, terror and then you don’t ask yourself f questions: oh peace ,oh patience will help! as if that was even possible. I am going through it, and this guy just enrages me with this made up stuff.

[@animistde]

Sometimes the things that enraged you are exactly the things that you need to hear

[@tonykambouris6015]

I’ve been going through this for over 4 years now. The sadness and depression I feel is unbearable at times. I feel so disconnected from life and feel empty. I’ve been praying for many years that I come out of this but I just don’t. How can wanting more love and happiness in your life be a bad thing? That’s how i started on this joinery. I prayed for more love and positivity, more peace and patience in me. I longed to Be a greater person for myself, my children, friends and just everyone I come into contact with. I don’t long for money or possessions, material things. Just to be a better person! And through doing all the practices eg.. mediation and surrendering and so on. The opposite has come. How can this be? I’m so lost and confused with this process and can’t understand why this has happened. I’ve given so much of myself in this life, supporting people and caring for them and being empathetic and compassionate towards them and this is how God/universe has repaid me 🥲 I can never understand this cruelty. I keep hoping I will get out of this but it’s out of my control. Please god! Please heal me and everyone else going through this. We just want to serve humanity with love, positivity, kindness, compassion, peace and help others on their joinery’s too. I’m so broken inside. Why are you doing this to us? Please help us 😔

[@spiritualak5147]

Me and you are the exact same

[@Crazyrichazn]

The video said it really well. If this is for the rest of your life. What would you rather do? Focus on that. That’s what helped me so much.

[@turkanismail1848]

Words like, trust, faith?

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus. The Lord didn't create us to be unthinking robots. Allow him to fill you instead with his Holy Spirit. He is not forceful. You won't lose control of your body. He will gently guide you. Know Jesus know peace. He loves you 💗

[@346rrr]

I really needed to hear this. Such a powerful message.

[@edwardvaughan8821]

This was great thank you. i've been going through a dark night of the soul for 6 months now and this was very useful

[@bw2806]

Best of luck.

[@warmhit]

It feels good to know that this change is happening with majority of people who can't live with their conceptual identity. We are not alone in this.

[@hipnicity]

I’ve been there for awhile now. I have faith that it’s a good thing to walk through. I’m just feeling stuck!

[@jayj5535]

The answer to that question for me, when I had mine, were these: acceptance & complete surrender to the experience.

[@musicloverxoxox3]

After reading y’all’s comments I have hope this is the craziest thing I swear I basically had to just do what I can when I can, soothe when I can soothe and eat when I can eat sleep when I am tired insomnia had alwasy been hard but this is on another level, fatigue all the time, like crazy man many different emptiness and personality traits coming out

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus. The Lord didn't create us to be unthinking robots. Allow him to fill you instead with his Holy Spirit. He is not forceful. You won't lose control of your body. He will gently guide you. Know Jesus know peace. He loves you 💗

[@lidu6363]

It is very wise advice, but not for somebody going through the dark night of the soul. If you really experience it, you do not ask „what kind of power, energy would help me get through this.“ Because you cannot imagine any such thing. You have no energy. You do not believe you can ever get to the other side of the abyss. You do not believe there IS any other side... If you read this and say: „that's not true,“ you have not yet experienced the dark night of the soul.

[@emdee390]

What is the dark night of the soul?

[@ChiefJosephFan]

Finding the courage to ask the question while in the midst of great suffering, while within the dark night of the soul, is an act of faith that there IS another side, even if you cannot see it from where you are standing. And, no, it was not easy to ask, but the answer was surprising.

[@lidu6363]

No. If you are truly in the dark night of the soul, you never get out by coming through. You have to realize it will never end. Anything that would bring you relief would be a lie. Dark night is the truth.

[@stargateorion1912]

I am just going thru this right now. you are right. i feel numb.Nothing help.

[@anjulie7531]

Maybe it's not that you are feeling numb but maybe you are just refusing to feel anything. you watching this video about the dark night of the soul is not a coincidence.

[@HB-md8ly]

love love love love this spirited man. Thankyou for the gift ❤

[@highlandlove]

More Patience. That is what I need. Give yourself alot of credit for how far you have already come. Honor that and be patient. Light and Love to all.

[@seriouslysinglemom3835]

Now I have a name for what it is. So much gratitude.

[@snedumezweni9106]

This is so profound, I needed to hear this, Amen!🙂

[@junecancer42]

Best explanation of dark night of soul I have ever heard!

[@lizmuthoni2138]

Amazing wisdom.. Just what I needed and didn't know how to articulate it. Thank you.

[@christinamorales6887]

Just went through and God got me through it.

[@alicesaenz2725]

I asked and boom not a second passed and i got my answer. Left such a peaceful feeling

[@hereis6655]

I'm becoming more sympathetic and apologetic, I want to right my wrongs and I feel as if itll set me free and or push me further

[@Dave-ps3ff]

When I was going through the DKS experience there was a kicker that started it off and like Batman the Dark knight I was not sure if I was on the right path in life. Then thought if I were I wouldn't feel like this right now. Some growth in understanding occurred I guess was needed. Still feel like everything is a circle and not to take myself so seriously. Life is a journey full of ups and downs so stay focused and have faith

[@tariqsaleem1519]

going thru it right now...I will focus on the quality of surrender/strength/calm

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus. The Lord didn't create us to be unthinking robots. Allow him to fill you instead with his Holy Spirit. He is not forceful. You won't lose control of your body. He will gently guide you. Know Jesus know peace. He loves you 💗

[@anamhusain6866]

I’m replacing my fears with excitement

[@ChangeYourLife1122]

Don't do that , you gonna prolong your dark night of your soul, best advice is to face all of your fears. Trust me I did that and it did not work.

[@Shikarte]

A lot of people in the comments are saying "it's easier said than done, I feel numb" and what not. You don't realize that the way you feel right now is a result of you asking your brain bad quality questions. As the saying goes "where the attention goes, energy flows". If you keep asking your brain bad quality questions and repeat negative affirmations on and on, your brain has no choice but to focus on negative things only.

[@yereumkim5457]

beautiful. simply beautiful.

[@bitkurd]

This too shall pass

[@shawnthompson3936]

I went through this and now feel more like a evolved different person today. Can someone plz explain what happened to me. I feel like I have a power that I don't know how to use or I accomplished something, but not sure what.

[@ChangeYourLife1122]

What happened to you is that your light of consciousness ( true self) which is the soul has shine brighter because all along the ego( false sense of self) was blocking that light , the ego was dying during your dark night of the soul.

[@Msbenjamin]

Oooh I like this explanation !! Thank you!!

[@Iamanillusion1]

Beautiful intelligent man

[@gardensofthegods]

Shortly after I posted here I actually came out of The Dark Night of the soul and I was hoping it was the last time it was really wonderful especially the first few months and then just recently I feel myself getting pulled back into it and I tried to do some of the breathing yoga and yoga exercises for fear also called yoga for third chakra also called yoga for the manipura chakra... and it is also called the solar plexus chakra. I wish I knew what pulls me back into it I try to stay humble I try to stay grateful but sometimes one cannot help feeling overwhelmed by basic worries about things like money if there's not enough and this can set off a whole chain of anxiety. I wish I knew what it is that keeps a person from ever going back into it other people they come out of it once and never have to return to the Dark Night of the Soul why is it that some of us get released from it and feel like we were sprung out of prison only to have to go back ?

[@blythecordova1082]

I've come to realize the "you" that thinks is being sprung out of prison is not real and you know it so the emptiness keeps pulling you in. I just flow and be here, go where I must and find happiness that I'm falling without a parachute but it's okay because every moment is grace. There is great joy when I am here as nobody without my separation from everyone else. The self arises when it needs to in order to perform conversation. But it is noticed and dropped when it's job is done and I always come back to here as an empty awareness containing everything in experience. Here seems to brighten up over time and I feel happiness in my body when my mind knows it's one with all. The hardest part for me is keeping my mouth shut and letting everyone else die from individuality in their own way. It brings me pain that they "wait" for something to happen or someone to come. It happens here when we stay here it grows and we expand to light up the new world we come to know which is apart from the one we created for our "selves".

[@_ayannaxo]

@@blythecordova1082 beautifully said

[@_ayannaxo]

You put this into words so well. I'm experiencing this and it's been frustrating.

[@KissyDenise]

I went through the dark night of the soul for 3 years. It was wretched. Now I see reality for what it is. I see me.

[@hawkinthewind]

There is no 'secret' to getting through DKOTS. I would suggest deeply researching on your own - as opposed to being told what this blessing in disguise truly is. The point is to let it happen, know that you cannot fight it, experience it and move through it. Allow yourself to feel everything. It's not the same for all, yet the lesson(s) remain(s) consistent.

[@lovingatlanta]

🤔 😩 8.30.17 Okay okay y'all WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON??? Now either I really am going crazy or I'm living in an alternate universe because I have watched a whooole bunch of videos on KZbin & watched a whooole bunch of these Oprah interviews & Super Soul Sunday shows, read whooole bunch of books & articles on the Internet searching trying to understand what I'm going through / what's going on with me and I have never heard anyone say anything about "dark night of the soul"!!!! I just heard the phrase for the first time less than 24 hours ago & now it's everywhere!!! WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON??? 🤔😩. The way he explained it makes sense to me & the advise he gave makes sense to me.

[@dodimy8565]

i would need: more self-compassion, be more able to ask for help without feeling traumatised, and more self-forgiving. I see what he did there....

[@toyadawson7735]

so freaking true

[@Mel1985va]

Going through this makes me sad I’ve started noticing me losing my identify at the age of 30 I am now 32

[@dacejaunzeme4849]

So useful, relevant!

[@Crazyrichazn]

this resonate so much

[@mykovong]

Thank you 😊

[@Jme.Online]

Interesting! With that definition, I have definitely been through some dark nights!

[@creativehealing461]

This is exactly how I feel feel like I’m losing my mind…

[@monsterjesse]

faith and hope

[@alinawazthaver]

Thank you. This was very helpful. :)

[@jordandreste5480]

Love The Both Of You< thank You!

[@goddesstopaz544]

Spiritual rebirth.

[@anthonystewart5215]

Thank you Reverend Michael

[@alinawazthaver]

Thank you so much. :) I'm going through it, and this helps.

[@mathilda.b7980]

brilliant

[@Mxshy_The_Mxshroom_Cat]

How true. How true this is..

[@silindokuhlemalaza7658]

Man I need this.

[@vegataxkc]

When you abandon your ego you replace it with uncondtional love of self and others which requires the ceasing of all judgemental and negative thoughts towards others ( and the self).

[@omgamit3468]

Was going through dark night of the soul , thn i started reading mandukya Upanishads , self inquiry , who am i ? , And it just transformed everything , from knowing that i have to FREE to The 'I' IS already free

[@omgamit3468]

Mandukya upnishad are available on KZbin , by swami sarvapriyananda . And also one more video is available by name 'who am i ?'

[@GJJPete]

Wow, that was a perfect explanation

[@destinchallenger2915]

Wow! Thank you so much

[@bw2806]

GREAT ANSWER. ♡

[@loveliveholistically]

Thank you for sharing this information.

[@BlueDef811]

I’ve been stuck in the dark night of soul for the past 40 years. I believe in god to get me through it. It’s painful.

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus. The Lord didn't create us to be unthinking robots. Allow him to fill you instead with his Holy Spirit. He is not forceful. You won't lose control of your body. He will gently guide you. Know Jesus know peace. He loves you 💗

[@fernandovega5855]

No mention of God and no mention of purification from sin. This is the secular version of the dark night of the soul that is seriously lacking. Detachment happens during this process. It helps to view this process as a period of purification that happens to hinder your appetites for things that prevent union with God. The dark night brings you to a place of agreeing fully with the notion that nothing in this world satisfies and that the soul yearns for things beyond this world and that is union with God.

[@hipnicity]

Directions for enlightenment are not what it’s about. It’s an individual journey. Not a biblical agenda! We are ONE therefore the label God is redundant.

[@tonyacanada]

Love this !!! Amen

[@JoJo-cb5vb]

brilliant. ty

[@carlranger8060]

Very true Ludmila.

[@selomitagwireyi3288]

Wow! That's a great question.

[@tekenja3]

Going through it now. I feel certain family situations are my taking me through it which is effecting me heavily spiritually and mentally. Nothing makes sence but I know there is purpose and it is painful as hell.

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus. The Lord didn't create us to be unthinking robots. Allow him to fill you instead with his Holy Spirit. He is not forceful. You won't lose control of your body. He will gently guide you. Know Jesus know peace. He loves you 💗

[@kathleenwharton2139]

It is the dark night of the Ego. It has been..pretty much..my whole life. 75 years worth! I was a proud little person. God Stripped me. It is basically..the story of Job in the Bible. Everyone wants to think..it just happened to Job!

[@fortheloveofgod7258]

🎯Your post is the best one yet. You're exactly on point. I never once thought of Job. His tale is so inspiring in spite of everything. Thanks for sharing.

[@propps2253]

I have on right now, it's not fun. I stopped working for some time because it was impossible. emotional outburst, you can feel all the stress in your body, it's like somebody put the switch from the electricity from 110v to 220v, arms legs head can move without me doing anything. it's a 24 hours focus how to let go and trying to figure out how you do it. My only things that saved me is that i meditate for 3 years and did a few time psychedelics so i know how to let go but it is the ego who makes it hard for you it wan't to feel and think like the old times. My tips are if you have one right now, meditate and listen to your body, focus where is the tension in the body and try to breath it out. and don't try to fight it give it up.

[@turkanismail1848]

I stopped working too 8 months ago. Tough call that i saw i had no choice in. Thanks for the advise. I lay on the bed daily and feel all the wild emotions. Some days its so painful, i think is this even real. Course it is, just not a daily norm

[@jancheema6776]

TO LEARN- LIVE AND LOVE THRU LESSONS of disconnect and purging to get THRU the pain of it and EMBRACING the FLOW of life integrated with SOUL SELF REBIRTH... NATURE, LOVE & JOY NECESSARY NEEDED ON JOURNEY With BALANCING Inner-outer needs by no self-sacrificing patterns that YOU GAIN CLARITY- LEVELING UP- ASCENDING FREQUENCY- Hopefully... NEVER GIVING UP & BELIEVING IN SELF, THRU the discomforts of CYCLES processing TO BECOME ... NOW. ... Getting to the LIGHT, SHIFTED PARADIGM, arms open, both feet IN heart, FEELING IT ALL, TO THE SOUL. FEEL, DEAL & HEAL. Peace, LIGHT & Joy. nj-usa 🌴

[@AS-eq2qm]

My current situation

[@Betterthaniwanted]

I’ve been feeling like not myself lately , kinda empty and I’ve been asking myself who am I?! I steered at myself and I didn’t know who that person is and other times I understood who and why……. So that part of the awakening is strange to me

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus.

[@waytoprogramming]

Wow, just wow!!!! 🙌

[@mimivalentino2815]

I am definitely going through the dark night of the soul right now. I don't really understand any of it but the things that's popping up I'm not any of them. I don't even know where it's coming from lol it's funny because I know for a fact that none of it is true.

[@oxygenlung]

this is so helpful JEEZ LOUISE

[@zoeytoey8905]

Opra is off toughed by an angel

[@eljesperado]

I checked myself into a facility that treated me for my anxiety & depression. No one would ever want to live in endless darkness, so don't let people tell you you need to be there or that it is good for you!

[@CJ-ug7os]

Ive gone through this and my overly religious family scorned and outcast me.😏 They are so asleep to the truth of what we all are. Blinded by fear I suppose.

[@camillestorm740]

currently goin thru this

[@musicloverxoxox3]

I’m going through it.

[@kathleenmorley2407]

I would add Trust God to pull you through it. (Don’t be afraid, it will prolong the process). For me it was like walking in a dark forest, then I got to a ledge . I didn’t want to turn back, but I was afraid to walk into the emptiness ( no ground beneath my feet). Go ahead. You’ll be fine. Trust the process.

[@evangelesong6319]

You need Jesus. Ask him to come into your life and heal you. Tell him your sorry for any doors that you opened for the enemy. Ask him to heal you and he will. Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Nobody goes to the Father except through Jesus. The Lord didn't create us to be unthinking robots. Allow him to fill you instead with his Holy Spirit. He is not forceful. You won't lose control of your body. He will gently guide you. Know Jesus know peace. He loves you 💗

[@newlife4646]

I need a bottler of tranquilizers!~

[@fortheloveofgod7258]

🌿🕎🌿May the will of The Most High be done in my life RIGHT NOW. In the name of my Heavenly Father. All praises to The Most High - God of Israel to whom all praises are due. Sobeit.🌿🕎🌿

[@dragonangel6881]

Off topic but I swear his dreads are always perfect! 🐴

[@cyndiet4960]

Oprah it is sh@t..not that it isnt real .its insane to go through this.its painful, its fear, sadness. its confusion, feeling lost .out of your head and not wanting to be around people.

[@LaurenDelsackAstrologer]

Maui never forget

[@toyobeats1580]

Im on like my 3rd dark night episode. Not as terrifying as the first one but still a bumpy ride.

[@Tshegomlp]

Hhhmmm.." What quality would I need to have peace of mind? "🙏🏽 profound