In the book, "Eat Pray Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, she relays a workable solution to conquering, or at least challenging, her depression. What she does is takes out a journal and writes a help request to her innermost self. The request can be as simple as "I need help." She writes the words down on paper to get them out of her head, then she closes her eyes, focuses on her inner core, and she waits for a response from what she calls her "internal voice of wisdom."
She says "Even during the worst of suffering, that calm, compassionate, affectionate and infinitely wise voice (who is maybe me, or maybe not exactly me) is always available for a conversation on paper at any time of day or night."
If she really clears her mind and starts to meditate on her wise self, she usually comes up with an answer that will take her in the direction that she needs to find a solution to her happiness. "In response, somewhere from within me, rises a now familiar presence, offering me all the certainties I have always wished another person would say to me when I was troubled." And knowing that she has an inner voice allows her to recognize that she is never alone, and that helps comfort her feeling of loneliness.
Some friends who have read my blog have told me that they want to help me find my authentic self, the one that is deeply buried inside of me, under all the muck of the judgements and criticism I received in my youth. In their efforts to help me, they are giving me many compliments. I am not going to kid you, it feels great to hear people say nice things about me to my face, but the actuality is that while I am going to hear these words, I am not going to really feel them with my heart, until I've had those conversations with my inner self around why I have trouble believing it when people say nice things about me.
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