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Are You Depressed or Are You Lost?

"Depressed" and "depression" are very common words in our daily conversations. Many of us have learned to use them instead of other, more accurate synonyms like sad, melancholic, disappointed, miserable, unhappy, downcast, gloomy, etc. In fact, Merriam-Webster, the famous dictionary, defines "depressed" as feeling unhappiness. No wonder why so many people feel depressed! And from there to feeling sick and incapable to thrive, there's a very little step. Convince yourself of something, and that is what you'll have.

Many self-diagnosed depressions end up becoming true clinical depressions when in reality, they are just life blocks, unsolved situations that make us feel hopeless, lost, tired and sad.

Clinical depressions have to comply with very clear criteria to be real mental disorders. Some people end up complying with those criteria because they find no solution to some dilemmas or situations in their lives. They then lose hope, feel trapped, consume their energy in never-ending loops of despair and worry until that becomes their daily life pattern. It's not really a pathological loss of strength and will but an unavoidable result when time goes by and a solution isn't found.

Many of those people don't need a doctor. They're not truly sick. They need help in finding new interpretations, new perspectives, new understandings that lead them to unexpected solutions to their problems. They need somebody who can help them find new approaches and different avenues. Sometimes, that is easier said than done, I know, because the person's acquired beliefs block them from seeing solutions that are clearly visible to those around them, but that doesn't make them sick! That makes them lost or blind! In those cases, what those people are suffering from is a life block or a lack of vision, not a real depression! In the past, many of those situations were solved with the help of elders and friends. Today, in a growingly isolated society, where people share less and dare not truly communicate, professionals are seeking to offer advice and help. That, again, doesn't make those lost people sick! By labeling them (or themselves) sick, the label becomes a new burden to bear. They convince themselves that their problem is pathological and thus lose even more hope. Little by little, the lack of solutions, the weight of their label and their lack of hope really convince them that they are mentally sick. And so, they gradually become truly sick.

How can we then help ourselves and others to prevent this from happening? Let me give you a few tips:

1. Let's start calling things by their real name! Let's start allowing ourselves the freedom to express what we truly feel, instead of labeling our feelings with the general, ill-chosen and mostly erroneous term: "depressed." Learn to use new terms and expressions and make the effort to be precise and clear.
2. Let's start helping those around us express themselves, too. Whenever a friend of loved one tells you they are depressed, ask them to clarify their feelings to you; ask them to be more precise so they can understand their own feelings better. That often gives them the opportunity to understand what is causing those feelings and sensations, which frequently results in the new perspective they needed to guide them into finding a solution.
3. Ask for help. If you find yourself (or know of somebody in this situation) facing or experiencing a problem you can't solve, don't wait for magical inspiration to offer you an unexpected solution. Look for help. Ask your friends, your loved ones, or even a professional humanologist to help you see new avenues and perspectives. If life is a challenge, act before it becomes unbearable. Help is out there, just waiting for you to ask for it.
   
4. Avoid labels. Trying to fit into a defining box can lead you to not really understanding the problem. We often need to find a name for something in order to give ourselves permission to understand or accept it. But situations and circumstances don't need any labels. They just are. They just happen. And they can be tackled even without a label or name to define them.
5. Love yourself. Yes, I know this might sound a bit foreign here but believe me, loving yourself is one of the most powerful ways to prevent depressions and pseudo-depressions. Loving somebody means caring for them and wanting the best for them. If you love yourself, you'll want the best for yourself and you'll make efforts to care for yourself. You will, therefore, prevent any situation from growing out of control and will look for means, methods and strategies to keep you well, healthy and happy. So look inside yourself for the love all human beings deserve and make sure that it's there. If it's not, ask for help. Others can help you find the way to letting yourself feel worthy and accepting of it.

Clinical depression and feeling lost or stuck are NOT the same thing. Let's join forces in helping ourselves and others avoid mental illness. Life problems, difficult circumstances, losses, disappointments, loneliness, dead ends, lack of physical, emotional or intellectual resources or fear are NOT synonyms for depression but can lead to that unless solved. Don't fall into that trap. Learn to live and be happy.

Enjoy life, ALL of it,

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Self Love Isn't Selfish! Daily Practice of These 9 Things Will Enrich Your Life

Self-love isn't selfish; it's necessary in creating your own personal bliss. The purest foundation for building any relationship is to have it based on love. Loving the self is no different. Truly you can only love and accept others to the extent that you love and accept yourself. And an important key to raising your energy vibration within is to embody a high level of self-acceptance.

Research shows that physically cleaning the clutter from your home, a room or your office helps one to be more productive and successful. This holds true for mental cleansing, as well. Practicing self-love is a mental cleansing of sorts. It will help you to clear out your consciousness, much of the old programming, that does not serve you to the highest good, with ease and grace. Self-love is so important because the root of almost any illness, relationship problem and the financial challenge has come from an aspect of you, that you do not love and accept fully.

Practice doing these 9 things daily to stay on the mastery track of self-love, and enrich your life.

Don't Give Your Power Away to Others: Society is in a lot of ways structured around giving your power to others and it begins in childhood. We're taught to give our power to our parents, teachers, peers, etc. This often continues as we mature; then giving our power to our boss, our partners, and our friends. Know that your personal power is a gift and when you give it away, you often times wind up feeling depleted of your own personal passion and enjoyment in life. Stand up for you and take your power back. Be in charge and responsible for your own happiness. Don't you deserve that much?

Saying NO is OK: Taking care of you first is your right and is healthy for you. As a person that always put myself last, I realized that I often felt that I should help everyone no matter what the cost. Or, I would spend time with someone I loved even though I knew that they would bring me down and deplete my energy. I later realized that the cost was my health. Spending time with someone who depleted my personal energy or saying yes to something that I knew wasn't good for me, made me sick. Today, I know my worth and have enough self-love to say NO to things that aren't good for me because it's necessary. I hope you do too.

Stop Taking Things Personally: When you do anything in your life, know that you're doing it for you and for your well-being. The same goes for others. Nothing anyone does or says has anything to do with you. Yet sometimes we interpret something that was not the intention of the other person. And this, my friends, comes from a place of fear, ego, or lack of self-love. Don't take things personally. Just breathe a few deep breaths while breathing in love to your being. You'll soon realize that it had nothing to do with you but everything to do with them.

Stop Being a Perfectionist: There are always ways to improve, but nothing in this world is perfect. You're only setting yourself up for failure when you hold yourself to a higher standard than reasonably possible. And certainly, don't compare yourself to others as everyone is unique with different strengths and talents. So try to focus every day on your gifts, talents, and things you've done well. The minute flaws of non-perfection you may have are only learning opportunities on how to do things better; not a failure. As a recovering fellow perfectionist, this was a rough one for me. Today I can say with confidence, "I'm not perfect, and it's OK!" Try to just accept that nothing is perfect in this world... including you.

Stop Beating Up on Yourself: Being a recovering perfectionist, I was gifted at sitting in my head with my mistakes for a long time and beating myself up. Again, the object of the game here is to learn from those mistakes so that we may do it better next time; then move on. Sometimes, old habits do die hard though, so try to recognize the energetic damage pattern that you're creating by beating yourself up and just stop it in that moment. Realize that this is not self-love and that your better than that! I will just say this... "I know it's easier said than done but keep working on it!" Your that important!

Don't Take on Other People's Stuff: Most people who care about others are truly sensitive, empathetic and kind-hearted and we tend to take on other people's stuff right and left. We tend to think that in some way we are or can help them out. The energetic reality is just the opposite. You cannot take their stuff. They can only rid themselves of their stuff, the same as you. But if you take their stuff, now you both have it and you can truly make yourself sick over it. Take it from someone who always got sick because of others. Again, hard habit to break, but I'm proud to say that I don't live there anymore. I only occasionally visit, and that's OK.

Stop Rescuing Others: This is perhaps the hardest and most painful lesson to learn. As a healer, I want everyone I work with to heal and get better. I always want the very best for my friends and family. Know this: The only person you can rescue or save is yourself. Remember that saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink."? It's no different with people. They have to be ready for themselves. When you try to rescue another, you only end up taking on more of their stuff. Again, still bad for them, and then bad for you too, in epic proportions.

Stop Complaining: Guilty as charged here when I was sick and couldn't get better for a long time. I have to say though, that now I try to always look on the positive side of things. And when I have bad moments or days, I no longer beat myself up about it. At the end of the day, when you complain all of the time, the law of attraction says that you become a magnet for negativity. I can promise you that this is true; said from personal experience.

Go with Your Passion Daily: Most children do exactly what it is that they love. I realize along with maturity and adulthood, comes responsibility, but you should still do something you love daily. Not everyone is in a job that they love and the theory is that you need a job to survive so you stay in a passionless state. In this scenario, one has two options: Find a new job that aligns more with what it is that you love, or stay in the current job, and find what you are passionate about outside of work. Set yourself up for something you look forward to every day. If you spend your entire life doing things that bring you no joy, you are not creating a joyful life for yourself.

With a lack of self-love, often people end up with an imbalance in some way, shape, or form, which then creates an illness to act as a signal or wake-up call to take a look at things. Said person (this was me) blows off the wake-up call and goes about their daily business. Since the core issue has not been addressed, the second signal or wake-up call the body sends out is likely to be more severe and more dramatic and harder to deal with. This for me was thyroid cancer. Today, I consider a wake-up call a great gift. I have learned in my life to sincerely appreciate with the most gratitude, the little things in life. I also listen a bit closer to my body than ever before. One could say that I learned the lesson!! I hope you never have to learn the lesson! Listen to what your body is telling you... it's that important!

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