I was going to title this blog only as: Suicide, and that was before last Monday. When someone takes his or her own life it hits hard the ones that stay behind. It often seems so unfair and unnecessary.
I have read that depressed people may be more realistic, but that they don’t live as long. Some as you know, because they take their own lives. Many people feel that it is a very wrong thing to do to take one’s own life. Yet we put animals down all the time. If one is suffering from physical pain, some might agree to allow a person to be free of the body, but if one is suffering mental distress, then that is supposedly different. What does the depressed person want but peace? If one can know that there is peace without the body, then it would make sense that the person would want to be free of it. No one really knows that there is peace after the body is gone, but many people may think it is an alternative to what is going on in their lives. Which is often chaos going in in the head. Misery seemingly from just experiencing the human form. So changing what is going on in the head can be an alternative to leaving the body.
This week, I offer several links to changing the stinking thinking,and maybe someday there will be a quicker fix, but for now, making the change from within seems to be the way to bring about lasting change to thoughts of helplessness and hopelessness. Often, medication can assist in the process. It is not an easy process and maybe someday, technology will be able to assist with the shift in the mind, so that depression is not allowed to debilitate a person.
The depression can seem to eat away at a person, and often it feels that the thoughts are just uncontrollable and one can seem how many people medicate with alcohol and drugs.
So this week, see if you can turn the thinking around, if only for a short time and let go of the agony.
This is from http://mentorschannel.com/html/mentorsletter/intro/intro006.htm
In recent weeks, there has been more and more stress in our region, with two opposing forces paralleling life within and outside of us. The world is a mirror of what is happening within us and the only way to achieve peace is to create inner peace. Peace between the various parts of us, peace between the spiritual and physical, and between our 4 dimensions: Mental, Physical, Emotional and Spiritual.
Stop Over Thinking
Destructive Thoughts
Working toward Peace of Mind
Peaceful breathing
So, there has to be a change in your outlook, but who is to say you are wrong for the way you are thinking? Some people say they are sick and tired of being sick and tired, or that they are just tired of life in general. But living from the inside out, rather than the outside in can give you a new outlook and help you to feel more connected, loving, and find more purpose and meaning in your life. I wish all people peace and harmony, and if more people would work together to help each other, then joy would be more abundant for all.
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Depression Session 2 8.10.14
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation and freedom in all just pursuits.
By Thomas Jefferson http://www.motivationalquotes101.com/quotes-by-thomas-jefferson-88.html
Depression is beautiful?
Sri Daya Mata writes from Finding the JOY within you: “Introspection is a very healthy practice as long as you do not employ it to dwell on your weaknesses until you re plunged into depression, or onto such feelings of guilt that you begin to hate yourself. That is a misuse and abuse of self-analysis”. P 117
From the book, How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie: “Everybody in the world is seeking happiness-and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions”. P 71
If you find yourself in a downward spiral, imagine you are like a plane spinning into a crash and ground control is commanding you to: Pull UP!! Pull Up!! It is what we must do when we allow some outer circumstance to spin us out of control. Controlling things from the inside out is a powerful way to control your energy and your mood.
By Thomas Jefferson http://www.motivationalquotes101.com/quotes-by-thomas-jefferson-88.html
Depression is beautiful?
Sri Daya Mata writes from Finding the JOY within you: “Introspection is a very healthy practice as long as you do not employ it to dwell on your weaknesses until you re plunged into depression, or onto such feelings of guilt that you begin to hate yourself. That is a misuse and abuse of self-analysis”. P 117
From the book, How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie: “Everybody in the world is seeking happiness-and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness does not depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions”. P 71
If you find yourself in a downward spiral, imagine you are like a plane spinning into a crash and ground control is commanding you to: Pull UP!! Pull Up!! It is what we must do when we allow some outer circumstance to spin us out of control. Controlling things from the inside out is a powerful way to control your energy and your mood.
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