Hopelessness is a state of being where one feels totally dejected. It deprives one of any form of hope, joy or the colour of life itself.
We don’t trust anything. We don’t think things will get better…and we are tired.
We don’t see any hope of any light at the end of the tunnel. Things always turn against me.
We are afraid. We are hopeless.
But why is it so?
The origin of hopelessness
Being hopeless means you are disconnected from the energy around you. You don’t trust the process of life, which is you.
But why?
This is because we don’t understand what we are and what is happening to us. We don’t understand what life is.
When awkward things happen to us, we start playing the victim game. Our complicated and malfunctioning thought structures keep troubling us, and we don’t see any hope of resolving our issues.
We doubt everything about us. We doubt our skills, our relationships, our future, etc.
This establishes a disconnection between us and our environment. It initiates a continuing struggle… to be able to survive in the radical and complex world.
But it’s too tiring. You can’t always be in fight or flight mode. You can’t function if you don’t engage with your environment.
You can’t always be watching out to avoid things happening to you.
Where is the fun in surviving like this? There is no life in it!
How can we stop feeling hopeless?
Since hopelessness is in an energic state of being, which is created through various events and the cultivation of past experiences, it can’t be easily stopped. It has its own momentum.
The best approach to resolve it is to directly deal with it. Go into it and meet it at its home.
Ask yourself these questions;
– What is it, precisely, that makes me feel hopeless?
– Why is it that I don’t trust anything?
– What is wrong with me or the world out there?
– What do I want?
Dig deeper and deeper into yourself and discover why you feel this way.
Soon, you will realise that you are opposing the presence of existence itself. It is already there, and you are a part of it, and its denial can only make things worse for you.
Whether it is your work life, relationships, social life, emotional state, etc., it is happening right now.
It is being played in the present, and you can not escape this play since you are already here in the present.
And everything that you can see and experience is a part of the same play, a movement of the same energy. And you cannot separate yourself from it.
Therefore, you have no choice but to play along and allow the movement of energy to flow.
Allow your thoughts to flow. Allow your emotions to follow. Even allow your distrust to flow and be with it.
Once you accept yourself, you will be able to accept the outside world, and this movement of distress and hopelessness will disappear.
And you will now realise it is not so bad after all. You are a free soul who can experience so many things. It is an amazing creation.
And you will start loving it. Living yourself and loving whatever is out there.
The question of hope will disappear as you have nothing to gain or nothing to lose in this magnificent play/dance of energy.
