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