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BEING THE BLUES

In consideration of the ebbs and flows of the everyday blues, first things first. We must resist the urge to clump all blues into one lousy destructive slump. Let's allow ourselves the room to make an initial distinction: there are every day blues and their blues every day.

In the case of the "every day blues," what's the problem? Blues give flavor to a day.

When we are in the mood, albeit melancholy, we are grounded in what's uniquely ours and real. Aloneness beckons and challenges us to grow. As many artists will attest, the blues are rich ground for creative insights, music, and dance. In the everyday blues, we experience our soul soothing itself.

"Blues every day" is a different matter all together. This kind of blues can feel like lead running through your veins. In their most depressed form, they can make us feel so heavy that we are sure the box springs are sagged to the floor. This and many other forms of emotional disatisfaction happen when our souls are trying to get our attention.

Depressing blues really do demand that we check in deeply. Change is trying to happen but it is being held up by an incongruity between the way we are living and our beliefs. Looking in our worldview, that library of beliefs that pre-program our projective realities: what we believe we should see is what we, in fact, do see. If at some level we think that we deserve darkness, for instance, and the every day blues might just be fulfillment of that habituated request. The blues in all its forms are often conditioned responses set in place well before we came of age.

Inescapable developmental forces molding us for the Great Maturity that precedes death have a tendency to help us (force may be more accurate) flush out beliefs that get in our way. We all house an inherent resistance to these kinds of metamorphic changes and the longer we subconsciously hold on, the tireder we get and, eventually, the more pronounced the pain. By some quirk of fate, in our treks toward becoming fully human, it is via pain that we most often gain.

One remedy, an act on our behalfs that can uplift, is taking a walk. A walk and talk may be just what your inner doctor needs to perform the healing. If we have enough will to motivate ourselves outdoors, then a walk however long, however brisk, will alter both the inner and outer landscapes, get the blood changing positions so that a fresher breath of life can find its way into our shadows and ligthen the load. In the solitude

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