What does priest Andrei Tkachev advise to do if the soul hurts?

“How does the perception of the world become negative? Why is it poisoning not only ourselves, but also our loved ones? And most importantly – how to change it? – to these questions the editorial board "Site" He'll try to answer today.



Having enlisted the wise instructions of Archpriest Andrei Tkachev, we will try to find out the cause of the origin of grief in the human soul and find a way to get rid of it.

If even the prayer to the holy Apostle Thomas from all life's adversity, nor the prayer of detention of the elder Pansophius of Athos, changing the life, does not help to cope with overcoming sadness, it is worth moving to more radical ways of eliminating it.



As for Andrei Tkachev, he approaches the problem of overcoming mental pain quite philosophically. The clergyman repeatedly noted that there is no surer way to get rid of painful thoughts than the one offered to us by St. John Chrysostom – to get rid of less pain through more.



We all know when less physical pain subsides during more. For example, when a person happens to suffer a severe trauma, a aching tooth or a slight migraine does not occupy all his thoughts. A person focuses on a larger problem, leaving the anxiety of minor troubles behind.



In the same way, you can get rid of mental pain. “Imagine Christ and the horror that overtook him in the Garden of Gethsemane. Then remember the suffering he suffered at Calvary. Feel it with all your living soul, and let the great pain of the suffering messiah extinguish the little pain inflicted by the world, the flesh or the devil.

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We all have to deal with trouble from time to time. There is no way to avoid the pain. However, we must learn to treat it with the wisdom that Holy Scripture teaches us. And soon life will acquire completely new colors and become much easier.



We are all focused on our own lives. And so every event that happens in it we regard as something incredibly important. Every trouble seems great, and the pain is unbearable. But if we correlate it with the torments suffered by our Saviour, we can understand how negligible our daily adversity really is. What do you think?