Finding Spiritual Meaning in Bipolar Suffering
As soon as you can make your own suffering mean something, you start to transcend it and serve a higher purpose.
Everyone has their own suffering, whether they are bipolar or not. The challenge is to embrace your darkness as much as the light so you can hold it, have compassion for it, and see the beauty in it. Your bipolar disorder can serve a spiritual purpose.
I don’t buy the notion that all bad things that happen are part of God’s plan. I think that’s rather cruel, actually, to tell someone that they were paralyzed in a car accident because God intended it that way.
I do believe, however, that we can find spiritual meaning in most anything that happens, and then use our experience to grow, healing ourselves and others.
Whatever we are faced with can be the challenge — the impetus for spiritual growth — for this moment or this lifetime.
From a yoga perspective, the problems we have don’t appear suddenly over night or even in the space of one lifetime. The solution may not come to us in one lifetime, either.
For me, yoga becomes critical for embracing my experience, even if it’s negative, allowing it to be, and then inviting transformation. Otherwise, if I don’t embrace it, the adage “what you resist persists” certainly applies.
These are just rambling thoughts. What do you think? Please comment.
Tags: bipolar, bipolar disorder, spiritual purpose, yoga
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You are a VERY VERY brilliant person.
Clarissa, thank you.
a bipolar person often have bursts of energy and joy. such is it’s intensity that it can bring smile
to the face of anyone who has smiled long back.is’t this a great service to the almighty.
I beleive anyone who have noted by docotrs that they have bi-polars disorder should not feel as if life is over. I beleive in a spiritual sense a person with bi-polar disorder have become far more spiritually stronger and greater in their beliefs. Only the Most High God knows why and how things occur. Even in its stigma of bi-polar we learn to appreciate the self, others and be more understanding. One Love!
Maxine Foster
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Roots Dawtha