DEPRESSION CURE: Never 'fight' depression
Hi Friends,
I come across books on depression cure in the market - and there is a wide variety of them - that hold out the prospect of 'fighting' your depression.
Let me aver that 'fighting' your depression is a sure shot way of increasing your misery and ending up with a monster more deeply entrenched within than before.
You can never win this 'fight'. Accept it, instead. Rather, embrace it! Most often our depression is uncaused. If you genuinely think there is an external cause for your depression, please read my post: Psychological Depression vs Uncaused Depression (click here to read).
Struggling against your depression does not help. All you can do is create a false sense of overpowering your inner malaise, largely through ego boost, diversion, changing the way you think etc. In a sense you will be fooling yourself into believing that your depression is under control, until it rears its head again, may be with more ferocity.
I have written this before: all attempts at handling depression at the 'mental' level are futile. Uncaused depression (which is what most of us seem to suffer from), has nothing to do with the mind. So how can mental training help you handle depression?
Uncaused depression is a manifestation of spirit. Those who feel it are sensitive souls. It is actually great news. Give yourself a pat. You need to welcome it and embrace it. This is not a make-believe miracle that i'm totting around. This is a truth that has been known to humanity for centuries, but lost in a very noisy, egocentric and competitive world. We seem to need short cuts for everything.
Accepting your depression and giving up all defenses against it works like magic. It's not a miracle, but has a basis that is rooted in the way human consciousness has evolved over millions of years. I have explained all that in my book ARE YOU REALLY HAPPY?. (readers from India may click here to get a peak and see reviews)
(readers outside India may please click here)
The mind has the limited role of just understanding the paradigm proposed by me. The solution comes from within - from body and spirit. I have explained it in a step-by-step approach in my book. Take your time to read it - a few pages at a time.
If you finish this book in a few hours it will just be a mental exercise. On the contrary, when you read it slowly, you allow the the dimensions to sink in and become part of your consciousness. Ditto for good music - listen not only with your ears, but with your whole body! I love to watch well made thought provoking, sensitive and deep movies again and again, almost frame by frame to relish the nuances. That's how you imbibe any book, movie, music into your spirit.
I give here a link to an earlier post that you must read: The Only Permanent Cure from Depression (please click here to read). That post will guide you to earlier relevant posts.
Read on. Depression is not such a big problem. We make it a source of misery by misunderstanding it and not dealing with it correctly.
Cheers!
Deepak Chatterjee
Let me aver that 'fighting' your depression is a sure shot way of increasing your misery and ending up with a monster more deeply entrenched within than before.
You can never win this 'fight'. Accept it, instead. Rather, embrace it! Most often our depression is uncaused. If you genuinely think there is an external cause for your depression, please read my post: Psychological Depression vs Uncaused Depression (click here to read).
Struggling against your depression does not help. All you can do is create a false sense of overpowering your inner malaise, largely through ego boost, diversion, changing the way you think etc. In a sense you will be fooling yourself into believing that your depression is under control, until it rears its head again, may be with more ferocity.
I have written this before: all attempts at handling depression at the 'mental' level are futile. Uncaused depression (which is what most of us seem to suffer from), has nothing to do with the mind. So how can mental training help you handle depression?
Uncaused depression is a manifestation of spirit. Those who feel it are sensitive souls. It is actually great news. Give yourself a pat. You need to welcome it and embrace it. This is not a make-believe miracle that i'm totting around. This is a truth that has been known to humanity for centuries, but lost in a very noisy, egocentric and competitive world. We seem to need short cuts for everything.
Accepting your depression and giving up all defenses against it works like magic. It's not a miracle, but has a basis that is rooted in the way human consciousness has evolved over millions of years. I have explained all that in my book ARE YOU REALLY HAPPY?. (readers from India may click here to get a peak and see reviews)
(readers outside India may please click here)
The mind has the limited role of just understanding the paradigm proposed by me. The solution comes from within - from body and spirit. I have explained it in a step-by-step approach in my book. Take your time to read it - a few pages at a time.
If you finish this book in a few hours it will just be a mental exercise. On the contrary, when you read it slowly, you allow the the dimensions to sink in and become part of your consciousness. Ditto for good music - listen not only with your ears, but with your whole body! I love to watch well made thought provoking, sensitive and deep movies again and again, almost frame by frame to relish the nuances. That's how you imbibe any book, movie, music into your spirit.
I give here a link to an earlier post that you must read: The Only Permanent Cure from Depression (please click here to read). That post will guide you to earlier relevant posts.
Read on. Depression is not such a big problem. We make it a source of misery by misunderstanding it and not dealing with it correctly.
Cheers!
Deepak Chatterjee
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