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The true blue of desire

18/6/2015

 
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Here is a perspective for those struggling with addiction. An open path that has something to do with blue. And with healing experiences in dealing with addiction in my practice.

Desire or yearning for drugs is bad, right? Desire must be quenched and gotten rid of, – or is this not the case? Is there somewhere a „yes“ instead of a „no“ moving us forward? I have noticed something that gives my work, for people struggling with addiction, wings and a faster way to freedom. A deep joy and authority.

There are sometimes elements of character that seem to make some individuals prone to addiction. Here the help and a warm glow comes from discovering the innate freedom and authenticity of pure, healthy being, which feels like a divine „override“, like inner strength and joy being rewritten.

But another way of looking at addiction is a search for the yes. It is honoring desire and looking through desire to find a ticket for a journey we all will go on.

Author and teacher Mary Baker Eddy states:

"Desire is prayer; and no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may be moulded and exalted before they take form in words and in deeds.“

Since letting this truth do something with me, I honor any desire as prayer. Rewiring desire and uncovering the goodness of desire as something prayerful and potent. As an expression of spiritual individuality for space and belonging. A yearning for the real thing.

As somebody who has loved the color blue since I can think – my mom had to rebuy blue in my box of watercolours often – I love Rebecca Solnit’s fabulous remarks on blue in her book „A Field Guide to Getting lost“:

"For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of horizons, of remote mountain ranges, of anything far away. The color of that distance is the color of an emotion, the color of solitude and of desire, the color of there seen from here, the color of where you are not. And the color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those miles away at the horizon, but in the atmospheric distance between you and the mountains."

She arrives at a fundamental spiritual lesson:

"We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something (...) rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire (...). I wonder sometimes whether with a slight adjustment of perspective it could be cherished as a sensation on its own terms, since it is as inherent to the human condition as blue is to distance?"

So no one who struggles with addiction should ever hear that the desire is wrong or that he or she is wrong. The object can be better, should be the very best. But nothing is wrong about anybody, nothing is wrong about desire. As the color blue hovers above and in front of us - while we stand on the shore of the Pacific, or on the bluffs of the Mississippi, or stand on a boat bridge at Lake Chiemsee – we can cherish the longing for more. And let this desire draw us onward and upward:

"Man is more than a material form with a mind inside, which must escape from its environments in order to be immortal. Man reflects infinity, and this reflection is the true idea of God. God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis.“ (Mary Baker Eddy)

Every desire is prayer.

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For further reading - 

Spirituality and depression are one journey by Keith Wommack

Beneath the surface by Nate Frederick

Listening for blue: An Icelandic art project which invites you to Explore a glacier

Zoƫ
19/6/2015 02:46:11 pm

These ideas are so important! I am deeply touched by the compassion and love that speaks through this article.

I love taking a look at my own desires and finding out what the spiritual essence is of what I desire... In a way, we are all spiritually homesick.

Donna
21/6/2015 08:32:45 pm

Thank you for sharing the wonderful quote from Solnit's book. It is a perfect metaphor for what I am currently experiencing, lamenting the distance between where I am and where I want to be. I have been feeling 'blue', and it gives me a beautiful, poetic new way to look at my longing. I have heard "Desire is prayer" before, but hadn't heard it attributed to Mrs. Eddy. Now I know. Thank you again for your wonderful blog.

Marlin
3/8/2015 03:01:12 pm

Keep up Good work. Celebrate 'inner strength'.
Alles Gute,
Marlin


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