When doing standard therapy for depression many issues show up and it is difficult to navigate through them. Working through these issues one by one can take many years. Even if eventually successful with these issues, in many cases the depression still does not go away. There is a good reason for this. But there is another kind of therapy, which is both fast and deep. It resolves not only the issues but the underlying depression in one fell swoop.

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...

Why would a person block his intuition? If, as a baby, you intuitively feel that you need the support of a parent and it is not given, you suffer greatly. This hunger for support is mental torture. In order to avoid it you teach yourself to not trust what you feel. As you keep avoiding listening to your true self you lose the connection to who you are, what you want, what you like

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.

When you intuition is blocked other secondary issues are created. For example, because you are not receiving or fear losing the love and support of your parents, you become afraid of being open and honest with them. Instead you learn to grab their attention by throwing tantrums. Deep inside you know what you are doing and start disliking yourself. As you can see, it gets more and more complicated.

Some people, out of their frustration at not being able to have what they want, will start to be aggressive toward others and some will turn their anger and frustration inward and punish themselves. These issues seem to be separate from the depression and many times become the focus of the therapy. But as they are secondary issues that came about because of the initial blocking of intuition, it is impossible to resolve them satisfactorily without dissolving the blockage first.

With the use of intuition in art therapy it is possible to bring the root cause to the surface right at the beginning of the therapy and dissolve it successfully. When we do this first, the anger and self punishment, along with many other possible secondary issues, become useless to the patient. They dissolve by themselves and there is no need to deal with them at all. This is how powerful intuitive art therapy is for depression.

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