It’s ok to wallow.
To sit within the vacuum of hopelessness looking out with dull eyes at whatever surrounds you.
Hopelessness is a feeling. Feelings are not right or wrong, they are a sensory response to the present social environment. Hopelessness arises from a lack, an imbalance, from dissatisfaction.
No matter how plush and inviting or harsh and grating the environment, hopelessness is a valid response to an absence of something essential to your purpose, your survival.
Don’t judge the feeling with thoughts of how things could be worse. Don’t shame the feeling with thoughts of how others would appreciate where you are so you have no right to feel down. Don’t invalidate the feeling with thoughts that you should be happy.
In that Moment, hopelessness is your feeling. Simple as that.
Greet it with compassion and curiosity. Embrace it. Hello Hopelessness, what can I do for you in this moment? What brings you here today? What have you got to say for yourself?
And in the vacuum of silence and stillness which accompanies hopelessness, listen very carefully.
Trust the silence. Sometimes it will whisper, other times roar. But it will never lie to you.
This is Synergy 
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