How do you, personally, treat sadness?

Fleur de Frost · #1 19-09-2015, 08:38 PM

Do you feel it entirely and all-consuming until it fades - or do you combat it with an onset of positive energy? What works better for you? Or is there one set 'cure' that works for everyone?

Thank you! :)

Mr Interesting · #2 19-09-2015, 08:42 PM

Eckhart Tolle said that compassion is equal amounts sadness and joy and I have found this to be one of the truest of truisms. So the truing of this truism might be that sadness can quite easily become joy with only the slightest twists of it's hanging tails... as in does the dog wag his tail or does the tail wag his dog?

Belle · #3 19-09-2015, 09:18 PM

I think sadness is ok. My cousin recently took her life. Sadness - is natural. It would be weird if I weren't sad - and deeply so.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with sadness. I don't believe in fighting it but allowing it to flow through. It's the opposite to happiness (not joy), it's akin to yin and yang, night and day, dark and light and it is a part of life to make a whole. It is human to have times of sadness, it is an emotion and we are creatures of emotion.

Wallowing is a different story!

QT Pie · #4 19-09-2015, 09:45 PM

I do not reject or resist it. If the level is higher than I can maintain here is a funny trick. I actually dive in it... So deep at some point I just can't even take myself seriously with it. I let it consume and watch myself devolve into a pitiful wretch until inevitably I start laughing at myself.

starling · #5 19-09-2015, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Belle

I think sadness is ok. My cousin recently took her life. Sadness - is natural. It would be weird if I weren't sad - and deeply so.

Personally, I see nothing wrong with sadness. I don't believe in fighting it but allowing it to flow through. It's the opposite to happiness (not joy), it's akin to yin and yang, night and day, dark and light and it is a part of life to make a whole. It is human to have times of sadness, it is an emotion and we are creatures of emotion.

Wallowing is a different story!

But not all the time.

YOu shouldn't be miserable all the time.

What ever the source, just don't think about it, if possible.

Deepsoul · #6 19-09-2015, 10:40 PM

Your so cool QTPIE ,,,a few week ago I finally let out some tears and at the end of it I was laughing ,and yes it was like you know what theres not much I can do about it so being this sad is actually laughable in the end ....this may not apply to all cases but its something I also experienced...I think Ill call it sadness madness..:(:)

Howla Dark · #7 19-09-2015, 10:43 PM

There's different types. Sadness: missing someone, losing, feeling down, grief, remorse, bereavment, disappointment, depression, loneliness, ect.

Deepsoul · #8 19-09-2015, 11:05 PM

Very true Howla Dark By no means I hope my post has not upset anyone,and if it has I apologize ,mine personally was sadness dealing with pain etc due to illness ....

WhiteWarrior · #9 19-09-2015, 11:39 PM

To quote an ancient tale, many times retold and in this case with thanks to Wikipedia:

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away."

7luminaries · #10 19-09-2015, 11:43 PM

Sadness is a necessary part in the cycle of experience and is associated with enduring pain.

Once freed of the burden of enduring an experience, ubiquitous sadness may give way to the cycle of grief and mourning (which has many stages), and thus of healing, ultimately.