Blog 264 – Having A Purpose Helps You Leave The Pit, Part 2 – 28 May 2025

In Blog 263 I again talked about the need to identify your purpose and how valuable the purpose is for leaving the Pit of Depression.  Yoga and meditation and walking are the tools that helped me to leave the Pit, but before tools can be of any use, you must make firm decision to actually leave the Pit.

Having a purpose will give you the courage to do what you have to do.

In this Blog, I will continue to talk about the necessity for you to identify your purpose and the need for you to make a lasting decision to carry out your purpose.

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Although my current purpose looks simple, carrying out that purpose can be difficult.

My purpose is to give hope to those who have lost hope. Without hope, we remain lost in the Shadow Lands.

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To leave the empty spaces that look just like locked cells, every one of us has to make the decision to walk away from the empty space even though it looks like a cell.  Only you can do that.

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In the middle of the vast desert that surrounded Karijini National Park, I went for a swim on 20 March 2011.  Eventually, I had to leave the water.  I was cool but covered in mud.  Life is like that sometimes.

Sometimes, staying in the Pit feels comfortable, but if we want to come alive, we have to move around in the mud to leave the Pit behind.

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This shows the desert landscape in which Karijini National Park is located.  How the vegetation in this photo survives is one of nature’s great mysteries.

Photo taken 18 March 2011. 

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 Contrast this lush, ancient rainforest vegetation with the desert vegetation only a few metres further up the slope – and all of the vegetation is located within the very same ferociously hot desert.

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This is a photo of Fortescue Falls - a second water hole located withing the Karijini National Park desert.  The vegetation in Fortescue Falls is even more luxurious than that in Circular Pool. 

I took this photo on 20 March 2011.

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This is a photo of the Coongan river, near the town of Marble bar in Western Australia.  The outstanding feature of the Coongan River on 21 March 2011 was the presence of water in the river.  nearby Marble Bar is the hottest town in Australia and once had had 137 days in a row when the temperature was in excess of 37.5 degrees Celsius (100 degrees Fahrenheit).  In most years, the Coongan River has zero water in it.

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Go with a clear, open and receptive spirit, and the universe will not treat you badly.”

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I chose the four desert countryside photos above to once again point out appearances are often very deceptive.

When I was camped in the middle of the desert, I would have laughed if you had suggested I could walk for half a kilometre and have a swim.

When you are in the Pit, it seems there is no way out and nothing is worth living for.

That is why you need to recognise your own purpose.

Once you have found your purpose, you must do something else.

You must start living in the manner that seems to best match your purpose.  If you do this, the way out of the pit might still be difficult, but the exit signs for the way out will be very clearly marked.

Write your purpose down and place it where you can see it often – just like I do at the start of these Blogs.  Remind yourself of your purpose whenever you feel the blues creeping back.

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This is a photo of how I have written down my purpose.

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When you act with purpose, you add meaning to your life.

When you add meaning to your life, the way out of the Pit is unmistakable.

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I will tell you more tomorrow.