Healing From Within – How To Awaken Your Inner Light

By Áine Sands

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

It seems that there comes at least one time in almost every person’s life when they live in a state of depression, or experience a constant sense of anxiety or dread — enduring a deep sense of unhappiness, or feelings of being completely lost, confused and ‘out of place’ in life. Out of touch with their true self, that is.

Some try to find a means of escape by masking their unhappiness (drugs, alcohol etc), and sadly, some can’t continue at all with their agonising way of living, and may even make the extreme and tragic decision to “end it” altogether. Others may use certain actions as a “cry for help” from those around them, many simply find themselves utterly at a loss to understand what they are feeling, why they are feeling it, what to do, or how to cope.

It is my Intention in writing this article, to reach out to anyone at all who is having such delicate difficulties at this critical time here on Earth – and this is indeed a critical time on Earth. As I have personally heaved myself out of deep depression, made it through living in a constant state of fear, anxiety and paranoia, overcome compulsive habits, and risen above intense self-hatred, my intention is to be of pure and genuine service to others who may be in similar places in their lives right now. This isn’t an article you are going to be able to skim read, so relax for a little while and stick with me — and we’ll try and figure this out together.

What is Causing So Much Sadness, So Much Stress?

Right, in my view, this sense of unhappiness (in any way, shape or form) arises in many young adults in our ‘Western’ culture, usually for the first time in their early twenties, sometimes younger. For others it slowly creeps up on them as they grow older after years of feeling personally unfulfilled. I find that a lot of stress comes from that snare of an idea that we call “money” – the constant bills, ‘earning’ a living, the need for enough money to do this or that, before being happy, and so on – but that’s a topic for another day.

So, you feel like you’ve done what society has asked and expected of you. You’ve completed your formal education (school, university – whichever) or you’re still in the process of its completion, you’ve got a job or you’re at least trying your best, you’ve found a compatible partner, and possibly “settled down”. You’ve maybe had a child or you have a family of your own that you love, care and provide for. Or perhaps you are “young, free and single” with nothing much to complain about. So then you might wonder ‘what right have I got to feel unhappy in life‘, especially if you are viewed by others as being successful. Perhaps it was a specific incident that set it off, or nothing at all in particular.

For what reason do you feel so incomplete; unfulfilled? What is it that is missing from your life? Does your sense of happiness truly come from employment, from relationships, from a ‘party lifestyle’, from how much money and material goods you have, from being viewed as “successful”? Or are you simply masking the discontent which seems to always be there behind the not-so-real smiles and laughter? Why does there seem to be a constant sense of unease, despondency, anxiety and at times sheer panic within you, as you make your way through your day-to-day life?

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