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The Real Meaning of Dark Night of The Soul (It's Not What You Think)
What if the Dark Night of the Soul (DNOTS) isn't what we think it is?
The spiritual community has blown this concept up. It’s very popular. They treat it like a required stage of purification or a necessary stop on the hero’s journey. They tell you it’s a time of surrendering to divine will, making it sound like a painful, inevitable rite of passage.
But what if it can easily be avoided?
Let’s look at the list of DNOTS symptoms:
- A sense of emptiness and meaninglessness
- Feeling lost
- Intense sadness or despair
- Physical fatigue, brain fog, and trouble concentrating
- Social withdrawal and isolation
- Loss of interest in former activities
- Feeling of stagnation
With a degree in psychology, I can tell you these are the exact clinical characteristics of depression. I could pull out the DSM 5 right now and diagnose that list as depression.
What if the dark night of the soul is just a self-diagnosis of depression?
The problem is people are self-diagnosing a mental health slump as a Dark Night of the Soul to make the suffering feel holy and purposeful. This makes people think they have to go through this misery like it is a badge of purification honor.
I'm a two-time Master and Champion of the Dark Night of the Soul. OOoof. If only I knew then what I know now.
The foundational Buddhist principle states that life involves suffering, not because life is inherently bad, but because of attachment and impermanence.
Life is going to life. No matter how healed, awakened, or high vibe you are, you will encounter the inevitability of the human experience: loss, disappointment, sickness, aging, and change. The initial pain of these events is unavoidable.
But the suffering is optional. According to Buddhism, suffering is prolonged by our reaction to that pain and what was, versus what is. This is where choice comes in.
No matter how healed you are, life is still going to life. We are here to have a human experience. But how quickly we recognize the suffering and turn it around will decide the length of time we suffer.
The DNOTS only becomes necessary when we’ve held onto the suffering much longer than we should have. It is the alarm bell that rings when your Outdated Operating System is fundamentally incompatible with the reality that you are a divine being worthy of love, respect, care and grace.
To understand how to avoid it, let’s break down the term:
Darkness > Separation
Night > Temporary
Soul > God
Dark Night of The Soul means a temporary separation from God (aka our true divinity).
This is you abandoning yourself to play a role that is not aligned with the God within. It’s like an Outdated Operating System still trying to run your life when your soul is pushing you to exit a room you no longer belong in and enter a room where people have a chair saved for you. Read this post here on the chair theory.
The moment you look at your reality and think the power is outside of you and settle for less than you deserve, the separation and darkness begins. Your life starts to feel dull and flat. You feel helpless and depressed. The now ill-fitting life you are trying so hard to hold on to begins to crumble. Hard.
This crumbling is a massive system clean. It’s a Norton’s Virus Scan & Clean in your operating system.
It's not inevitable, though. You can push a button and opt out of that story. You don't have to take that journey.
You can stand in the knowing that your mere presence is incredibly valuable, or you will stand in the darkness believing other people deserve more power, love, happiness, safety, and security than you do.
The Dark Night of The Soul simply means you are not showing up for yourself.
What we teach here is the big giant red Opt Out button.
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The Real Meaning of Dark Night of The Soul (It's Not What You Think)
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