Depression- A mind game

It is not a coincidence that one of the readers Cri Cri was asking for an article on depression and the Ayurvedic and Yogic principles on what causes this problem, and I am in London treating a client who is taking anti depressants. She has been relying on these for a while and she likes to take them as they help her to forget and numb the pain of having to deal with certain aspects of her life, especially the passed. After meeting her today and doing treatments, yoga and some habit changes of eating and sleeping times, she did not smoke or take her anti depressant for the whole day. This is self power.

I wanted her to experience the energy change in her mind and body and to better understand that we only become addicted to substances (be it food or drugs) because we choose to and not because ‘it just happens.’ It happens because we allow it to out of choice. The drugs are not only toxic but they are a big distraction for a person who should be dealing with the issues at hand, but now feels mellow and removed as the drugs have a numbing feeling. Each time we medicate ourselves more, it is harder to come out of the ‘coma cloud’ to try and face life and the root of the problem. This is commonly done when people drink alcohol.

Depression has its roots in the mind where a person by choice refuses to deal with the issues or passed difficulties they have attracted. These difficulties are there to make us stronger and each time we go through these challenges we learn a new lesson which helps us with the next challenge. You see we need each moment to guide us to the next, otherwise we become lost. It is the avoidance of these learnings which bring a person into ‘crisis mode’ where they are not prepared for the next lesson by experiencing the last. Like a student who skips class and keeps falling back. Taking a pill means we just don’t want to learn what we should be learning. We just can’t learn under the influence of drugs that alter the chemical balance of the mind. We need to be in the mind and not out of it to face our challenges.

Also when we get depressed it is a question of control. We want one thing and we get another. Here if we remove our expectations that things will turn out the way we have planned them, then when another thing happens we are accepting towards this new situation (whether we perceive it as positive or negative). The key is acceptance and to let go of control, with an understanding that we are only in control of our speech, actions and mind, so we should put our efforts into these and not trying to control the world and people around us. This is self control and discipline leading to patience and peace and not  to a personality a called ‘control freak.’

Depression also puts the attention on the individual and their misery which is why depressed people hang around with negative and other depressed people. To come out of this selfish  emotion one needs to practice yoga, yoga breathing (nadi sudhi) and meditation, combined with dietary changes, regulating sleep time and controlling the sexual urges. This is to allow the mind to elevate to a higher thinking pattern and exit the limited emotional level which is heavy. Practice is the key to all change.

Yogi cameron

camerongoodhealth.com 

Power is in the mind and the body will follow. There are many of these example as the mind is the controller of the body so when we decide on something it will happen.