Hey Dean! Depression is a very wide topic! I appreciate your thoughts here. Maybe you can help me in my thinking also...
My dad used to quote Kierkegaard, whom he read and meditated on while living a celibate life in the Bruderhof community for 20 years: "When depression comes, ask Spirit what change you are resisting. Then stop resisting the change."
This worked for his depression each time, for the rest of his life.
Surely not a panacea for everyone, but a highly useful technique.
For me, well, I was depressed from age 12-26, because I read a quote from Eugene V. Debbs, the famous USA socialist reformer, who said, "If there is a soul in prison, I am not free." (and so on). I went to therapists, but they agreed with Debbs... weird.
Then I discovered Buddhist loving kindness (metta) meditation. The notion that I could actually help others to be happy by sending them love was really mind-blowing, and it actually seemed to work! 15 years later, depression has always yielded to this practice. Loveyhuasca, of course has helped to deepen it a lot.
But I found out that a lot of people can't do that practice until they first do Inner Child Self-Love & Reparenting. So I researched & eventually wrote a guide on that: innerchild.u-dont-exist.com
Then I found out a lot of people are blocking themselves subconsciously from connecting to their inner child, so I wrote a guide on self-hypnosis. I then packaged these together into a bounded therapy app: InnerSignalSelfHypnosis.com
If you or anyone would like to try it and leave a review, I'd be happy to see how it's working. So far just a few friends trying it out.
I used to use this before I started studying individual psychologists and found that it kept me from being able to think about how each psychologists ideas connect. I will try it again, I have started shifting toward writing about meditation and mental health instead of consciousness and psychology.
Hey Dean! Depression is a very wide topic! I appreciate your thoughts here. Maybe you can help me in my thinking also...
My dad used to quote Kierkegaard, whom he read and meditated on while living a celibate life in the Bruderhof community for 20 years: "When depression comes, ask Spirit what change you are resisting. Then stop resisting the change."
This worked for his depression each time, for the rest of his life.
Surely not a panacea for everyone, but a highly useful technique.
For me, well, I was depressed from age 12-26, because I read a quote from Eugene V. Debbs, the famous USA socialist reformer, who said, "If there is a soul in prison, I am not free." (and so on). I went to therapists, but they agreed with Debbs... weird.
Then I discovered Buddhist loving kindness (metta) meditation. The notion that I could actually help others to be happy by sending them love was really mind-blowing, and it actually seemed to work! 15 years later, depression has always yielded to this practice. Loveyhuasca, of course has helped to deepen it a lot.
But I found out that a lot of people can't do that practice until they first do Inner Child Self-Love & Reparenting. So I researched & eventually wrote a guide on that: innerchild.u-dont-exist.com
Then I found out a lot of people are blocking themselves subconsciously from connecting to their inner child, so I wrote a guide on self-hypnosis. I then packaged these together into a bounded therapy app: InnerSignalSelfHypnosis.com
If you or anyone would like to try it and leave a review, I'd be happy to see how it's working. So far just a few friends trying it out.
I used to use this before I started studying individual psychologists and found that it kept me from being able to think about how each psychologists ideas connect. I will try it again, I have started shifting toward writing about meditation and mental health instead of consciousness and psychology.