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DEPRESSION AND THE LIGHTBEARER

Many Lightbearers today long to follow the promptings of their Higher Selves and commit more fully to their missions as they pertain to the Divine Plan. Obstacles mount as they find their attempts at real spiritual progress stymied by job uncertainties, relationship problems, family problems, financial difficulties, and the like. One of the effects of failing to surmount these difficulties is depression. Depression can keep a Lightbearer in an almost constant state of low energy and render them incapable of fulfilling their role in the world's rapid approach to the Golden Age.

If we look at depression in its cold, hard state, we find that ultimately the individual Lightbearer who suffers from it is actually focussing too much on him or herself. This boils down to plain old selfishness. A person obsessed with his or her own preoccupations is one who is prone to depression. Some claim that a host of outside problems—the present state of the world, sad memories of the past, other people etc. etc.—contribute to their depression. Even this is a form of ATTACHMENT that still brings the “source” of depression back to the individual.

Each Lightbearer is responsible for his or her choices but many will see the cause for their depression as coming from without. Yet the depression really exists as a result of tension created as the Higher Self constantly tries to get them to further commit to their roles and individual or group service. The Lower Self responds by creating conditions in the emotional body that give the Lightbearer one or any number of excuses not to make the effort to break free of his or her own self-imposed condition, and so this inharmonious tension causes low energy and depression.

The scientific and medical communities tell us that our emotions are a physiological and bio-chemical 'extension' of our physical bodies (this must be so for why else would they spend their time trying to resolve human emotional problems with chemicals?) and so medicines are flooded into the consumer market to help cope with all these human problems including depression.

The knee-jerk reaction is to find a pill that will redress the chemical imbalances that the medical profession sees, for it is far easier for the Lightbearer to take a pill for their depression than it is to face the problem head on. However, from our perspective taking anti-depressants only serves to numb the conscious mind even further, preventing it from responding to the Higher Self.

But once again this brings the problem back to the resolve of the individual Lightbearer and his or her commitment to their mission and what steps they are prepared to take to see it through. For emotions, whether seen from the point of view of conventional science or from the esoteric side of things, is still a vast stumbling block for many Lightbearers, and one to which ultimately a certain degree of control must be gained over if real progress is to be made. Each Lightbearer must determine for themselves their resolve in this area.

Often a Lightbearer will intensify his or her focus upon spiritual service (or spirituality in general) when in the throes of some external problem or another, and yet what is sometimes found at the root of this energized state is not selfless desire to serve necessarily, but a desire to avoid negative situations. When an individual truly has no obstacles or difficulties to worry about and yet still goes about doing selfless acts for others, then that individual is on the true path of service, and not merely re-bounding from a situation of discomfort and into spirituality which brings them comfort .

Telepathic Healing was given by the Brotherhood of Light to the healers of the Sanctus Germanus Foundation, not only to bring physical alleviation to the Lightbearer but to aid Lightbearers in their attempt to move forward and enter into true service. There is service and then there is service , which is when a person sets aside his or her own desires (even if only momentarily) to do a thing that benefits others. All one has to do is open oneself to WANT to serve. Then the opportunities will arise in line with one's soul purpose. When a lightbearer enters into true service, he or she can check, “Is this thing that I do for Humanity, and is it in line with the Brotherhood whom I long to serve and do work for?”

As selfless service becomes second nature, the Higher Self begins to dominate. In this instance, there is only ACTION, and what happens or fails to happen is met only by the resolve to more ACTION. When in this frame of mind, the ‘difficulties' that one had attributed to depression will seem insignificant when compared to fulfilling one's role in the Divine Plan. Then surmounting depression will be like stepping over tiny puddles left by the rain.

The Telepathic Healing Group