swolejah said:
Does it also help with having more confidence and getting rid of depression?
This is a large part of it. It helped get me out of allot of "depressing situation" and use the experience to better myself. When we embrace the oneness of self and experience all of this, the good and the bad, then we can approach life with more acceptance.
Here is a bit from ALPHA+BLADE (Unedited) Depression by DLD
What is depression, a state of depressed certainty? Not really but it can sometimes feel that way.
I have gone through 2 major depressions in my life. One was after a breakup I went through with a girl names Kelli. During the "depression" many things occurred, beautiful things totally dependent of the breakup. Yes, things were difficult, I had lost a girl I loved, but I used this time to write and the poetry I took from this depression has benefit me since. I studies greek and latin to aid in my grammar and vocabulary, I learned better sentence structure, I had learned to rhyme my thoughts but mostly I had changed myself forever, for the good.
Looking at the negative portion of my breakup, the pain, loneliness, hurt, and total sense of failure, it needs to be understood there was an equal and opposite reaction, my poetry. And my poetry was just as powerful as the pain and hurt I went through. A due paid back, the yang of my ying. Like two hungry fish eating each other, tail to mouth, I had gained a life changing gift, born out of the pain and agony, POETRY.
Soon I met Jennifer and she would replace Kelli's physical spot with me, as the Love of My Life, the girl who would stick with me through everything...never leave and if she ever did it was for me to learn a greater meaning of live. After 5 years of blissful love Jennifer left. I was and am crushed but as I know a gift is being born from this depression. A gift so equal to the pain, a gift with as much power as the loneliness I feel for Jen. My pain in this depression is gut wrenching but the trade-off had just as much intensity. So far I have learned how to tap into mental energy that allows me to loose
weight, get more muscular, make my penis bigger, write the mathematic for, and draw, with accuracy, illustrations of my thoughts.
This alone is incredible, but I am still going through the pain and each day another gift is born of the pain. Seeing depression as only one diminutional, being the pain, then your life will be filled with suffering. When we can reflect on the complete circle of good and bad, then our pain is held with less effort and our spirit is lifted by all the goodness that is God. We are never asked to carry a cross we can not carry but we are always blessed with and equal gift of this pain. Learn to see it and this, in itself, will balance your life.