Card for Friday, September 12, 2014

First off.. I have to wish my mother a happy birthday.. I hope she likes the flowers we got her..

Meaninglessness is a state that isn’t talked about much in our society, yet it is a dreadful and common experience for many. Meaninglessness is being in a struggle with life and being here on earth. The questions: ‘What are we doing here?’ – ‘What's life all about?’ – ‘What's the point?’ – and - ‘Why am I living?’......those questions can be disparaging when you think you need the answers. And sometimes those questions actually create our state of meaninglessness because we think having an answer to those questions will bring us meaning and happiness.

Meaninglessness may be the worst state to be in. You aren’t faced with a challenge to meet or even depression to overcome. You aren’t sad, confused or lost. Meaninglessness differs from depression, in that it is more about having a spiritual crisis, rather than not caring about anything. Depression is having thoughts like, ‘it doesn’t matter what I do or how I think, life isn’t worth it’. Meaninglessness is a place of dwelling on thoughts like, “why should I even care if I care? And even if I do care, what is the point? What’s it all for anyway”. It isn’t about giving up, because you feel that even dying won’t offer any relief.

Experiencing meaninglessness can happen because part of what has given your life meaning has died and you are now disappointed with life. This place you are in, is now an empty place where you return to the bigger picture of, “what’s this ‘living business’ all about anyway?” And by contemplating these kinds of questions and thinking that life has no meaning, you don’t have to move forward, you don’t have to engage in life, and you never have to be disappointed in living again.

Yet the experience of meaninglessness can be helpful. You can contemplate on seeing the ‘bigger picture of your life’ as you think about where you’ve been, why you choose what you’ve experienced, and what has made your life worthwhile. These questions are important to reflect on occasionally so you can adjust and improve your life. But being in a place of meaninglessness is thinking that even those questions are pointless. Meaninglessness is getting ‘hung up’ on meaninglessness.

This place of meaninglessness can be a great opportunity for you. This state is often experienced right before a major life breakthrough. Meaninglessness can be one of the places where you make some of your greatest moves forward emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, or in your physical life.

There are ways to move out of this realm of meaninglessness, and reconnect with yourself and with life again.

You could:

• step through the meaninglessness by asking divine light to move you out of this state,
• take time in quiet to contemplate what has given your life meaning in the past, and ask what will give it meaning again,
• try doing energy work like Reiki or EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), do a vision quest, etc.
• discuss and come to understand what the ‘disappointment’ was that might have caused your state of meaninglessness, and learn more about what your soul’s true needs and longings are.
• take your focus off your state by offering help to others. Experiment with things outside your comfort zone: go on a volunteer vacation - or try building homes with an organization like Habitat for Humanity.

(Of course you may be in so much meaninglessness that you tell yourself that even these acts are meaningless!)   You now have the choice to stay in this realm or move into life again!  It is really a mind and energy shift…if you need or want it..

I know it seems like a really bleak card, but you have to look at it as a stepping stone for what's to come.  It's time to take a look at your whole picture and make more of  yourself.  Things are coming -- just have to clear out the junk to get it here.