Mental Health and Spirituality

Here’s How Albert Found the Direct Path to Enlightening Moments and Improved His Mental Health.

A paradoxical path via a serendipitous encounter to peace, joy, and love is a catalyst for the mental health of a wounded soul.

Since his childhood, Albert has felt an unbearable void in his psyche. Something was missing in his life. He did not know what it was. The world did not make sense to him. Coming from a wealthy family, he always had the objects that others envied but made him vulnerable.

Therefore, Albert was in constant search. Nothing he tried satisfied his metaphorical thirst. Thus, his suffering was growing despite his wealth and opportunities in his life. Neither he nor others understood his crisis. It was like a universal enigma.

Throughout his life, he moved from one object to another. He tried new experiences, new relationships, and new jobs. However, his suffering followed him closely and never gave him a break. It was a mystery why Albert couldn’t taste peace, joy, and love, which were believed to be natural rights for all humans.

The body talks to us using emotions as messengers. These emotions manifest as pleasant or unpleasant feelings. They serve as a messenger about whether something is going right or wrong. These messengers are critical to understanding the inner world. Unless we acknowledge asking for help by embracing the messenger, we will remain in the dark, and the messages do not make sense.

Unknowingly, Albert was repressing his emotions. He numbed them with external objects and events to have temporary relief. However, those painful emotions remained in the background. They even grew silently, causing more suffering. This dilemma continued for many years.

Neither he nor the other people around him understood what was causing his unnecessary suffering. From an external view, he has almost a perfect life with a wealthy family, a great job, an enviable physique, and many more blessings. However, from the inside view, it was a catastrophic scene. Only he himself noticed the incapacitating pain. The others just judged his pessimism as a spoiled person who has no appreciation of his blessings.

One day, in a lucid dream, a resonating voice from a distance kept echoing a word he interpreted as immersing in his emotions. The sound vibrated in every cell in his body. He was afraid yet remained observant of the echoing sound. Something was happening at a very deep level.

This dream intrigued Albert’s mind. He spent days interpreting this clandestine message coming from his higher self. He sensed its importance. His logic said it was just a nonsense voice. His intuition said he had to listen to this critical message. Listening to his intuition, he wanted to understand the meaning of immersion.

After weeks and months of searching, he came across a piece of poetic work from the 13th century. The starting sentence, “every morning is a new arrival in this guest house” grabbed his attention as he witnessed a myriad of arrivals in his painful inner world. As the text indicated, his consciousness fluctuated the emotions of joy, misery, and nastiness.

Then an answer appeared in the lines “the dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.” He saw an alluring light in his dark tunnel. Unfortunately, he was doing just the opposite by ignoring, rejecting, and suppressing those unpleasant emotions.

The final words, “each has been sent as a guide from beyond,” were decoding the resonating sound in his lucid dream. This profound sentence was the answer he had been searching for many years. The insight he gained was not to resist his thoughts and emotions visiting him moment by moment. Instead, he learned to meet them with warm acceptance, respect, and courage despite their painful effects.

When Albert accepted his spiteful emotions and was immersed in them, more space was created in his disastrous inner landscape for peace, joy, and love. He felt the most significant impact when he was immersed in his most painful emotions, which directly showed him his true self where peace, joy, and love were hidden.

When Albert shared this story with me in his teary eyes, reflecting joy and tranquillity, fond memories gave me a euphoric moment. I told him about the effects of this remarkable piece from Rumi titled “Guest House” by some literary translators.

I discovered this profound piece in my early twenties serendipitously when having an existentialist crisis in the middle of a remarkably wondrous life from the outside, which looked empty inside. I provide my translation of this unique piece from the original language at the end of this story.

When Albert heard that reading 50,000 lines of Masnavi in my youth was the best investment for my mental health, he decided to explore more. A few years later, he completed this masterpiece of six books, which became a catalyst in his spiritual journey to experiencing enlightened moments.

The path was so simple yet so paradoxical for him. He rhetorically asked with a resounding voice, who could have thought that just immersing in the most painful feelings could bring one peace, joy, and love? He had been searching for them in the wrong places for many years. But he found them in the very fabric of his soul.

Thank you for reading my story. I leave you with a unique piece of Rumi that I translated from the original version to English when I was 22 years old. It was part of an assignment for the subject of international linguistics that opened new horizons to my cognitive and limbic system, helping me learn and use several languages and express my emotions fruitfully.

The House of Visitors

We encounter new guests every moment

In this house hosting our souls.

Joy, depression, and unkindness

Visit us as unexpectedly in our consciousness.

Why not welcome and entertain them!

They may be a violent crowd bringing sadness

Even taking our valuable possessions.

Despite all, treat them as a guest of honor.

Who knows, they may be clearing the clutter

Bringing new joy to our house.

Meet those murky thoughts, disgrace, and nastiness.

Greet them at the doorsteps with a smile.

Invite them all inside and embrace them as your guests.

Show your appreciation to whoever visits your house.

See them as guides coming beyond the self.

This simple yet powerful piece of art and philosophy taught me the profound lesson of letting and embracing the most painful emotions confiscating unhelpful helplessness paradoxically yet constructively, bringing us serenity, joy, and love that we need to survive and thrive in this merged body and soul.

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