Depression is frozen feeling...

Depression is a frozen feeling. It's not a disease of the "mind". It's a disease of the heart. It is courced in unexpressed, unreleased, and unhealed pain that is held deep within the physical and emotional body. You can talk about it in therapy to soften its edsges, you can medicate it in the hope that is becomes more manageable, but the real work has to happen somatically, deep within the body itself. The frozen material has to be thawed out, worked through, released. Our shadown is not our enemy. Repression is. Unfortunately, we still live in a world that is afriad of the source material. So we shun it, bury it, 'manage' it with dissociative spiritualities, medications and feelings - avoidant psychoanalysis. All of this merely perpetuates and concretizes the problem. the only way to heal depression is to get to its roots. To get right inside thsoe frozen feelings, and thaw them out someatically. We felt the initial pain in our bodies. We must go right back inside of our bodies to feel and resolve it. No more damming up of our emotions. No more defenses and deniels. The feell is for real. Let's feel our way back to life. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations