| Depression is usually difficult to deal with. Pinpointing | | | | come from: the blocking of intuition. |
| the reasons behind your sadness is not easy. In | | | | When you learn how to unblock your intuition, you |
| traditional psychotherapy you can spend several | | | | start feeling alive. There is a special way of using art |
| years dealing with a seemingly endless array of | | | | in therapy sessions which enables the unblocking of |
| "issues." However there is a much faster way to | | | | intuition. It provides your intuition with a clear path to |
| resolve mental suffering. | | | | the surface. As this happens, your intuition itself |
| The source of most emotional and mental suffering is | | | | guides you to a new way of being. Your suffering |
| the blocking of your intuition. When you were young | | | | begins to dissolve and you become happier. |
| and this natural insight was alive, you were happy | | | | Amazingly, and unlike most talking therapies, all this |
| and playful. But circumstances somehow led you to | | | | happens very quickly. |
| decide to block your intuition. This blocking then | | | | The ways in which your parents did not satisfy your |
| became a subconscious habit. | | | | needs may have determined your thoughts about |
| Intuition is the source of your energy and happiness. | | | | yourself. For example, if they kept telling you that |
| When you block it, you don't have a connection to | | | | you are no good, you may have adopted that idea |
| your true self. You don't know what you like, what | | | | and come to believe that you really are a bad person. |
| you don't like... | | | | This makes you feel that you deserve to be |
| The decision to block what is natural to you, your | | | | punished. |
| intuition, happens when you feel threatened or | | | | Some people respond to this early frustration with |
| experience too much suffering. For example, if you | | | | anger that turns outwards toward other people. |
| want to do something that your parents don't allow | | | | Others, usually women, learn to turn their aggression |
| you to do, you keep wanting it and they keep not | | | | inward and to punish themselves in different ways. All |
| allowing you to do it. Eventually you decide it isn't | | | | of this is another aspect of depression, which is a |
| worth it to keep trying over and over because they | | | | secondary effect. Even if you succeed in resolving |
| won't let you do it anyway. As a child you are afraid | | | | this secondary outer or inner aggression, there will still |
| to lose your parents' support. Yet it's a lot of | | | | be problems because the underlying lack of intuition |
| suffering to want and not to receive. So at some | | | | will create new ones. So it is crucial to dissolve the |
| point, you start to not listen to your intuition. The | | | | habitual pattern of blocking intuition. |
| knowledge of what you truly want becomes less and | | | | This use of intuition in therapy makes it possible to |
| less accessible to you. | | | | find the nature of the initial blockage very quickly. By |
| Now you are without the natural flow of intuition. | | | | disentangling this basic interference, all the secondary |
| There's no feeling of being alive. And it's easy to | | | | issues you might otherwise spend years "dealing |
| decide that life isn't worth living. Usually people believe | | | | with" in standard therapy simply drop off by |
| that depression is a special kind of mental illness or | | | | themselves. This makes intuitive art therapy rapid, |
| suffering. But the truth is that it comes from the | | | | deep and truly effective in dealing with depression. |
| same thing that all other kinds of mental suffering | | | | |