Spiritual Low – How to get out of it?

AOB, it takes time for a thread to get through. It may have not gone up until not too long ago.

striving, check out that thread and daven, daven, daven (even just daven at random times throughout the day, like Hashem please help me find a spot or something small like that.) If you’re looking for smaller steps then have extra kavana in asher yatzar (or any bracha.) Or just look outside and see how many people are sitting in a hospital (or are going through anything that you B”H aren’t) that you don’t have to worry about.

*kapusta*

how about listening to a shiur to get some chizzuk on sites like torahanytime.com and the like or calling Kol Halashon or Chazak Hotline by Chofetz Chaim Heritage foundation. I’m not sure of their number though. Maybe someone else can post their number.

Chazak has some jolting stories- they definitely help shock you out of any low you may be experiencing

It sometimes helps to get a change of scenery- refresh yourself.

I find that a spiritual low usually comes in the wake of an emotional/physical low. Deal with that- talk it out- and usually the rest will follow

Hatzlocha

I second kapusta’s welcome feivel 🙂

I don’t know if this will help you Striving, but it’s helped me: I found thirteen “Ani maamin”s in an Ashkenaz siddur, after the Shacharit prayers. I’ve had days when I felt like I’m just not sure and I said the “Ani maamin”s and I felt closer to God. (It might help that I understand Hebrew…if you do try it.)

you don’t trust me??

ah. got it.

lol, I looked at the link on the site titled “Phone Numbers”

718-258-2008 Chazak – press 3 for inspiration for lifes challenges – press 2 for personal stories – try 46 – or 1-47 # sign – amazing stories

feivel or anyone else- regarding the aspect of doing Chesed and feeling uplifted:

Sometimes after I do a Chesed, I really DO feel real good and then I wonder if I’m bordering on Ga’avah (especially when people thank me or point out something I’ve done good for them.) Where does one draw the line.

I. M. Here, I really don’t think that’s ga’avah. It’s not necessary to flaunt what you’ve done, that might be defeating the purpose. I think it’s perfectly ok to feel good about doing a good thing. Also, remember that when people are on the receiving end of a favor, it makes them feel better when they thank you. So, when you graciously accept their thanks, you can think that this is part of your chessed.

Recently, I went through a very, very hard nisayon that deeply affected me and I fell into a low. I volunteered for a chessed organization at the time and it did make a difference.

striving, best of luck to you in dealing with it. Hashem should give you the strength to snap out of it ASAP.

~a~

I think that when someone is in a spiritual low, the most important thing is to get them happy and feeling good about themselves. That’s why feeling good about doing the chessed is perfectly fine. IMHO.

~a~

Throughout the day keep telling Hashem how much u love Him. Just keep repeating it the whole day…talk to Him…

sorry anonymiss-i only just saw this-i hope you are doing better and continue to face each day strongly as you’re protected and cared for by Hashem –

striving – you can do it – sometimes even if something is extreme you can still find that one sentence that really makes you feel better. – try saying tehillim – Dovid Hamelech went through everything and it is like magic – each time you say it – you can see so much more!

striving: i don’t know if this is what shaatra was referring to, but maybe try to thank Hashem constantly when little things go your way. it helps me realize how much good He gives, that you have a choice of noticing & appreciating, or totally ignoring & writing off as coincidence.

Striving: when your driving or sitting in your room, or just alone by yourself say “Hashem I love you so much You care so much about me and do everything for me, I’m so proud to be jewish, I love You so so much…” Just go on about how you feel towards Hashem

Im here: just wanted to add to all those that answered your question. The Shevet Mussar writes that the way to know if you did a good deed or not is to see afterwords if you have a good feeling about it.Because if you have a good feeling after something you did it’s a sign that you did something right.According to this it’s all the more appropriate to feel good after a chesed!

anonymisss, I’m glad to hear that (very glad) and if you want.need to talk you know where to reach me…

*kapusta*

man, this healed firefox is SO much better!

Striving – I have just come across your post and want to add my few words.

Everyone is human, not superhuman in that everyone has up times and down times. The hardest part of life is seeing through the fog because sometimes it is just too dense to claw through. In which case, take a step back and allow the fog to pass over and past you naturally.

The above explained nice and simply means take a deep breath and allow your spirituality to naurally take it’s course. If you don’t say the whole sefer tehillim every day/week, so what? If you don’t sit and learn 6 hours a day, so what? Nothing, that what.

Don’t set a goal or compare yourself to others. Just take each day as it comes. Try not to question too much at this time as sometimes the answers are not want one wants to hear or are too complicted to deal with.

With all this in mind please know that G-d is with you all the way, holding your hand and guiding you. You just don’t know it.

Once the fog lifts, it’s amazing how bright and blue the sky is. Once you come out of your spiritual low you will see how wonderful the world G-d created is.

god, and you wanted to know if I was a lamed vuvnick?? gee.

ha you wish!

i know what you meant. there’s no way i’ll ever get to be a regular average guy – never mind a tzaddik or even more, a tzaddik nistar… give it up, man.

striving: maybe, but sometimes when i’m not in a good mood or just sort of down, for no apparent reason (nothing sad or hard really happened), i remind myself that i always eventually feel better again sometime soon. & that i’ve gone through this type of thing before, so i just have to try and do my best & in the next few days life will probably be looking better again. and then it does.