I like Heartaches.
Do you know that indescribable feeling of general weakness?
That constriction in your chest when you discover that the person you love is actually involved with someone else?
Have you ever experienced that aching void deep inside, when you pass by the window of someone who has stopped caring for you?
What a pitiful, depressing, sad feeling!
This is heartache.
And yet, I like heartaches.
Heartaches are real.
They make you feel alive
And somehow they stir up in you, a kind of poetic ambition, which would otherwise lie dormant.
Heartaches give you an opportunity to seriously look at yourself and examine your raw, authentic pristine qualities.
They give you a chance to come apart and get to know who you really are and catch a glimpse of the grandeur and power that is within you.
If you treat this experience wisely, if you treat it with respect, it will serve as a tremendous springboard to great personal advancement.
Perhaps you are lonely now because you have just come out of a stormy and unsuccessful marriage.
Perhaps you feel frightened because your lover has gone to another city in search of something you don’t understand.
Perhaps you are disappointed because your business partner has run off with all your money.
Or maybe you have discovered that you have diabetes or some form of cancer.
Could it be that you are crying because the one you love has not been in touch with you for more than a week?
Well, whatever the cause of your heartache, I have some good news for you.
You need not cry anymore.
Use your depression as a time to look over your priorities, to define clearly your aims in life.
Bite your lip. Stamp your feet. Push your shoulders back and look to the future with the conviction that the best is yet to come.
Use this period to prepare your body and mind for better times, use it to analyze the characteristics and behavior pattern of you, yourself.
Use it to build your own resilience and emotional maturity and come out of this heartache a superior human being.
If you can cry and make your crying count,
If you can suffer and feel after better things,
If you can sulk and send your tentacles ever upwards,
If you can be depressed and still climb above your obstacles,
Then life belongs to you.
And you can join the ranks of those who can turn heartaches into heaven.
In gratitude,
Dr. Ken Nedd
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