hard to envision many people living in all the Arizona space and sun experiencing any troubles at all. Still, in Scottsdale therapists are flourishing and in Phoenix counseling is used equally as much as those in winter climates of the country. Perhaps it is the large number of retired persons who move to these warmer climates to live out their final days in golfing bliss, only to find that even though the weather is nice, and the air is dry, they are still who they were before, except now lacking in purpose and far away from their loved ones.

Perhaps it is all that sunshine that enables a person to keep moving, never able to take a quiet rainy day to sink down in to their own personal misery. Instead they have to fish and do water aerobics and play croquet and be go exploring in a cold dark rock when it is so much lighter outside. Certainly, some spots in Arizona, such as Sedona are presented as consciousness uplifting, but once again, the the important expression here is up. This area is filled with vortexes that increase your energy, awareness and overall consciousness. Nowhere is it ever proclaimed that there is a vortex that causes you tolook deeply inside at the pain you have caused yourself and others. The vortexes are just beautiful, places where you can magically heal without having to do any of that nasty internal self-examination that therapists so frequently facilitate.

The Grand Canyon is majestic and inspiring. All smallness disappears in the face of such grandeur , until we get back to our endless, demanding overwhelming, heartbreaking, trivial lives. The point is, that no matter where we go or what we do, in the end {the journey leads us back to ourselves the trip ends within and sometimes, if we are lost, it’s okay to get a little help, even if you do live in Arizona.