This morning I woke up with a familiar dull depression that seemed to have no cause. However, my mind immediately raced on trying to find a million reasons why I was supposed to feel that way. Fortunately, I didn't have to jump out of bed, so I decided to do some work. Instead of fighting my mind and trying to make it stop ("what we resist persists"), I decided to play along with it and let it go wild with it's extreme imaginings of why I should be depressed. At first it started to have a ball, doing what it wanted to do, but as it went on, it got more and more ridiculous to the point where it became obviously absurd. It exposed itself...no longer able to trick me with it's subtlety, it became ridiculous and funny. My mind released the thoughts. But then I realized it was still in my energy pattern. I did the same thing with this: I let the energy really go into what it was creating to the point that it felt free enough and wasn't "holding on" anymore. It just vanished, and I was left with a big wide beautiful empty sky of a self, and in that self I placed the openness to love...Wow!