One of the worse feelings in the world is loneliness. It leaves you limp, lifeless and empty. It’s hard to imagine being lonely with six billion people in the world and all the different activities available, but there are a lot of sad and lonely people out there.
Is Loneliness a Sin?
You will read many times on this site that I consider a sin anything that does harm, causes hurt to you and others. So yes, I would consider this a product of a sinful nature.
When you lose a loved one, a dear pet, a trusted friend, it’s natural to be sad.
It’s natural to feel emptiness and lonely for a period of time, but after an extended period of time this natural sorrow becomes unhealthy and leads to depression or even suicide. At this point I would say sin has stepped in and turned our natural emotions into something more deadly.
Maybe we are just using the word Sin as a way to explain what we don’t understand, but whatever the reason I can tell you that you are not alone.
If we can gain some understand about how our emotions and thoughts work, then we have a much better chance at overcoming and conquering this problem called loneliness.
People have good intentions, you will hear things like “Give it time, it will be alright” or “Everything will be OK”. These words have little impact if any, your pain, your emptiness continues to be emotionally draining.
What can you do to cope with lonelyness? Lets dig a little deeper.
Help Ease the Problem
One of the side effects of loneliness is insomnia. This compounds the problem, lack of sleep leads to many other physical and mental problems.
From experience I know these pent up emotions are negative energy. To burn energy you have to exercise, change your diet and change your thoughts. These are things only you can do, don’t try doing everything at once you will become more frustrated.
Here are some things I came across that can help, remember the goal is to improve your sleep first so that you build the foundation to tackle the bigger problem, overcoming lonelyness.
Getting Your Life Back
I truly wish I had the magic pill for each and everyone of you, but I don’t. Being lonely can become a condition that we settle for, we become comfortable drifting in and out of it’s emotional roller coaster ride. I’ve seen people go for years like this, but eventually it takes a toll on them and bad things happen.
So, what is the answer? 99 percent of the time there was or is a trigger that causes loneliness. It could be the loss of a loved one, it could be sickness, it could be something in your past that creates guilt and you can’t let go of it, it can be low self esteem, the list seems endless.
To conquer this, to get your life back you MUST find out what the trigger is. What is the underlying cause that is driving you into this state of loneliness. It’s there, anyone who had to deal with this problem eventually confronted their demon. This is what sin is all about, confronting those things we really don’t want to deal with. Sin will take these things and create thoughts in your mind, thoughts such as you don’t deserve to be happy, you’re not a good person, you need to pay for your mistakes, and all that guilt slams you right into the cage of lonelyness.
This is why you MUST find the cause and deal with it.
Loneliness and Punishment
Loneliness is self punishment, and until you feel you have paid enough of a price for whatever happened you cannot release yourself from its grips.
It is not a happy life to be lonely, your mind and body suffer. Since your mind and body is you, you suffer.
I’m becoming an older man, my needs and wants diminish. A Friday night with a good book and a comfortable chair to read in suits me just fine. To some this could be conscrewed as being a lonely old man, but in my mind it’s another relaxing evening.
You see, when we remove the self punishment part of the equation you will find that loneliness disappears. It’s replaced with acceptance, acceptance that we are not perfect and as long as we try to be the best we can be, then sin or whatever you want to call it cannot place us back into the cage of loneliness.
To put it simply, you don’t have to suffer anymore.
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