Is all the bad news getting you down? I was in a really bad way yesterday: so depressed and in despair that I wasn’t interested in anything. I’ve been in and out of this state for the last few weeks and this morning I could see no hope. The cause, as it often is, the state of humanity.

So, I sat with that depression and felt it.

I had a rant, at life, at God.

I sang about how I felt, just allowing my feelings to come out through my voice.

And then I got a large bit of paper, some crayons, pencils and other drawing materials, and allowed how I felt to come out as a drawing.

I added a sort of poem, to better express what that drawing meant to me at this particular time:

By now, with how I was feeling released, something more positive was moving inside me. So, I took another piece of paper and allowed another drawing to materialise. Then I added a title and a few poetic words of explanation:

All of this expressing of my feelings has helped me to move through my depression; quite nicely so actually! Although already an advocate of healing art, I’m rather impressed by this!

Just as meaningful is a reminder that perspective is so important. All I had to do was take my ‘depressed’ picture and twist it through a bit of an angle. Immediately a new light was shed on the situation.

I had been seeing my depression in purely conventional human terms. But if it is one thing that recent deeper experiences have shown me, it is that the human perspective is one very narrow, very limited one … and that life is far, far more.

If humanity is on the brink of destruction, so be it! There is far more to Life.