Depressed, Unemployed, and Lost
Dear Dyan:
I mostly wanted to thank you for the email I received this AM from you. The email came at a time when I am extremely depressed about my life and my situation. I feel like I am totally lost right now. I have recently become unemployed and question if I should continue on the same career path. I have
not had any dreams lately so I have felt like I have gotten off the right path somewhere down the line and really don’t know how to get back on it. Recently I had a lot of people praying for me and it seemed like the more they prayed for me the worse my life situation became. Right now I feel that things have become hopeless and I have no control over anything in my life anymore. Is there any advice you can give to help me back on the right path and get off of this destructive path I am on now. Thank you.
Dear P:
I’m sorry to hear of your situation. You certainly aren’t alone in it, unfortunately. As a global consciousness, we’re engaged in a course correction. When we’re lost it’s important to know that we aren’t alone in that either. The place to start to come back into alignment is to examine things at the root. Do you enjoy your career? Is it what you came to do? Is it your life’s purpose?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the path was a straight line and we never encountered any challenges on it? Our challenges are life lessons and without them there would be no reason to be here on the planet. While it doesn’t feel particularly great when we meet up with challenges, know that it is for a very good reason. You aren’t being punished by some outside force. You’re facing the lessons that you signed up to learn. If we are willing to do our homework, we get done with the lesson that much faster.
Now, part of what your current challenge is about is examining who you are without your career. We tend to define ourselves by what we do, rather than by who we are. You are being asked to remember, to know, who you are. That’s all. Without the job, that’s what you’re facing. The sooner you figure it out, the better life becomes.
Delve deep into patterns. Figure out where the pattern of destruction originates from. Find yourself again and the depression will lift. Engage in things that bring you joy. Through joy you will find your hope again. Things only look hopeless because you are viewing them through a cloudy window of old perspectives. You have the power to change those perspectives. Choose to do so because that is where you can begin to regain a sense of control.
It’s important to note that while life gives us temporary challenges in which we may find ourselves very uncomfortable, we are still safe everywhere we are. Also, about the people praying for you…while prayer is good and desirable, it’s also true that when we put a lot of energy on anything, and fuel it with our own ideas about how things ought to show up, we do have also have the power in that to create that which we don’t want. My love to you.
Dyan Garris
www.voiceoftheangels.com
