The easiest path to recovery is resignation.
When you resign yourself to living or being a certain way, forbearance becomes a subconscious second nature.
Of course, reaching resignation is the hard part, because it means letting go of all hope and entering a mindset where you stop wondering whether this new thing will be salvation.
Resignation gives the mind the space to acknowledge tiny gains. So when improvement does come along, in its own time, on its own schedule as it is want to do, the mind catalogs it under gratefulness: happy that it exists rather than impatience over the slow process. We stop thinking “when will this get better” and shift to “this is so much better than before.” We stop struggling to “get better” and accept small increments with gratitude.
When we stop asking for more, we recognise what we have. Some are able to achieve this as a life attitude. For many others, it is a compartmentalised process, limited to an experience, a feeling, a specific scenario.
Ultimately, the loss of hope makes us see the small pinprick of light at the end of the tunnel. When we embrace the darkness, we find the light.
