Depression & How to Overcome It
DEPRESSION AND HOW TO OVERCOME IT? Let's talk about depression!
Shall we?
I will be speaking here from my own experience, and knowledge, and offer guidance that helps me to overcome my depression.
The process of socialization teaches us to be a certain way to receive love and support from our family. Most of the time we are born in families where we have to change into someone so we can be accepted and therefore have our needs met through the family members. Every family falls on some level of dysfunction.
That leads to a realization that being yourself and expressing your authenticity is not always serving us well. We decide to become someone who can fit into the family and then the society at large. That inevitably leads to a belief that I am not accepted and love for who I am. So we do not speak, express and behave authentically.
I remember loving loud music and dancing, but my mom was always overwhelmed with her life and marriage that being joyful and dancing with her in the house was not OK. Unless she was in the mood for it. So I would turn on the music very loud when she went to take a bath and turn it off, being afraid and ashamed of myself, when she came out.
Feelings and emotions have to flow and have to be felt to leave the body. When that is not an option, we reject and suppress the part of us that didn't serve us well in childhood.
Keep doing that and you get a state of depression. Depression is simply a state when you reject yourself constantly because you have learned that your feelings and emotions are not ok to express.
Here are the tools that I have taken from many practices and healers that I have visited through my years of healing trauma and depression. Some of them are very obvious, but it takes time to realize how important they are. So please let it sink.
So what do you do to overcome depression?
-You become OK with being not OK
-You accept all of you and allow yourself to feel and express
-You surround yourself with people who understand the concept of acceptance and do not tell you "get over it" or "take medication "
-You give yourself time to live through the "dark" side of you that finally has permission to come out
-You thank yourself for every little glimpse of a positive mindset and action
-You nourish your body with highly alkaline foods
-You stop exercising negative self-talk and always question your negative thinking by asking yourself if that's the ultimate truth.
Depression sucks and as with anything in life, it is energy. There is so much of it in your negative beliefs about yourself and the world that it will take time to create new patterns and feed loving awareness of yourself and the world around you with positive thinking.
Medication is easy, but in my opinion, it is a very disempowering experience where you give your power over your own body and mind to something that is made in a lab and then you depend on that thing.
Think about it. And ask yourself a question how do you want to heal yourself with love and patience or with fear and escapism?
