Abraham on Manic Depression

Found this very interesting!

Abraham: "Here's another way of saying it. Depression is like pressing the pedal to 600 MPH in reverse with your foot simultaneously on the brake. Manic is like going
600 miles per hour in an airplane on the ground. Pure Positive Energy
experiences are like going 600 MPH in the air!

1.. Manic Depression is a double compliment - It says you are tremendously
able to focus and you have incredible power in your original wanting. Only
where both of these are true do you get that diagnosis.

2.. Whether you continue to take your medicine or not is the action journey.
You can be irritated about it, or appreciating the easier balance it provides.

3.. We never recommend abruptly changing your action journey. Tend to the
alignment first. Do your work on how you feel about it.

4.. The journey from stability to ecstasy is easier than the journey from
agony to ecstasy. The medicine helps for now. Stability is a stopping off
point on a longer journey to passion and joy. We'd rather see you as peaceful
than fearful.

5.. You are taking the medicine in fear of lock up psych wards. So, you need
to talk your way into a new place. When it is time to take the pill, but the
fear is great, take the pill. Then having taken the pill, deliberately move to
anger, and the next night the same thing. While taking the pill, don't settle
for fear, reach for anger. As you do it, night after night, soon, instead of
anger, it feels more like frustration, and the next night, you can see it is no
longer fear, but impatience. Take the pill because you appreciate it's benefit,
or because you said you would, but no longer take it because you are afraid of
what will happen if you do not take it.

6.. Now that you have dealt with the tailspin of fear, start to think of
lowering dosage. From this stable new place, you can make another decision.

Consider that you have the opportunity to decide whether to take the pill or
not, and think about not taking it sometime and talk your way into feeling
peaceful about the possibility. Say, "I can take it again tomorrow night, but I
will maybe not take it tonight." The fear is not nearly as great as it once
was, but if the fear comes up and you can't talk it into feeling better, take
the pill tonight and let tomorrow night be the night you don't take it.

Lay in your bed, knowing you could still get up and take the pill if you wanted to, but
find that instead, you drop off into peace. The next day you feel ok, and you
can appreciate the freedom from negative emotion the pill has allowed you and
taking it every other night becomes a more comfortable experience. Before long,
you begin to do everything based on your personal comfort with it.

7.. Don't give up the lifeboat until you learn how to swim!

8.. Whether you take it or not will become a non-issue.

9.. Manic depressives live fast, know that life is supposed to be good and
take quantum leaps that are hard to sustain. Taking the time to stabilize your
vibration along the way, looking for relief at each small step, allows you to
have creative control.

10.. You don't have to settle for the snooze zone of peacefulness. But going
up the spiral blasted by too much contrast doesn't allow you to hold the
ecstasy. So give yourself time to move deliberately up the emotional scale.

11.. You are liquid love, born into a fabulous environment of contrast. But
if you are strongly desiring in a place of strong contrast, you can lose your
footing. Just move from despair to peacefulness, then move through it into
excitement and joy.

12.. Take it easy. Don't let the pill represent inadequacy. It's not true.

It's helpful for you now, in time it will seem less necessary. Then in time it
will be something that was once helpful and eventually it will be a total
non-issue."



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