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Depression is usually difficult to deal with. Pinpointing the reasons behind your sadness is not easy. In traditional psychotherapy you can spend several years dealing with a seemingly endless array of issues. However there is a much faster way to resolve mental suffering.

We begin our lives being intuitive, happy and playful. Challenging circumstances of relationships and events in our youth frequently cause us to stop the flow of our intuition. When this happens many times, the blocking of intuition becomes a habit. With our intuition blocked we don’t feel alive any more.

It is simply impossible to be happy without the power, the joy and the guidance that intuition brings to your life. It is impossible to know who you are, what you like and what you truly want.

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

The less connected we are to intuition the less we know what we want and what we like and the harder it becomes for us to be happy. Life becomes meaningless to us, and who wants to live a meaningless life? This is a big part of what depression is.

The use of art in therapy can be a powerful tool in the hands of those who truly understand it. Its ideal for the unblocking of intuition. You don’t need to be an artist at all. You simply use the tools of art. Once your intuition is freed, it becomes your guide to happiness. With the help of a good therapist you will know what your intuition is saying to you. Then, step by step, you will dissolve everything that stands in the way of your happiness. This process is much more direct and therefore faster than most other modes of therapy.

Blocked intuition brings about many secondary issues. For example: You may start to believe that you don’t deserve to be who you are and do what you want. You may believe that you are a bad person.

Some people respond to this early frustration with anger that turns outwards toward other people. Others, usually women, learn to turn their aggression inward and to punish themselves in different ways. All of this is another aspect of depression, which is a secondary effect. Even if you succeed in resolving this secondary outer or inner aggression, there will still be problems because the underlying lack of intuition will create new ones. So it is crucial to dissolve the habitual pattern of blocking intuition.

This use of intuition in therapy makes it possible to find the nature of the initial blockage very quickly. By disentangling this basic interference, all the secondary issues you might otherwise spend years dealing with in standard therapy simply drop off by themselves. This makes intuitive art therapy rapid, deep and truly effective in dealing with depression.