Top Tips How to Fight Depression
April 10, 2009
Tip: Sometimes depression is actually chronic unhappiness.
If you feel unhappy the majority of the time, you should consider what is at the root of your unhappiness. A good resource to help you on your path of discovery and healing is The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
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Fighting depression can often be a race you feel you are not going to complete not to mention win. The condition makes you feel as though there is no end in sight, not a good end in any case. However there is. A triumph is nothing is if is not earned and the triumph over depression is like any other-it takes time and hard work to gain and keep it under control. Here are a few top tips how to fight depression:
Be active
Doing exercise and being active releases feel-good hormones that counteract the depression. Take long walks, do yoga or ride bicycle. Any of those activities you have not done in a while. Make sure you get lots of sun and fresh air as this will make you feel more energized. Energy being of great lack with depression. Even if you feel like doing nothing, be strong and stand up.
Keeping busy.
Keeping your mind occupied is key to managing your depression,. Express yourself though gardening, writing and painting. You will see your creations go from dull and boring during your starting phase to bright and colorful as you progress through the phases of depression to ultimate recovery.
Do something different.
Break your habits and daily rituals a little. You are so stuck in your circumstances that you think there is nothing fun or stimulating to do in the world anymore. Take a different road or do you grocery shopping at another mall. Don’t stop there-face your fears and do something you are terrified of like bungee-jumping. Who knows it may just be life changing?
Spoil yourself.
Take yourself shopping. Retail therapy is excellent treatment for depression. However only in moderation. Do not spend money that you don’t have. You don’t want to add to your existing worries by indulging in extravagant items. It is the small things in life that matter. Someone once gave me the advice that a shopping center or mall is the ideal setting for stimulation your senses which have been numbed by your condition. By drinking a chocolate milkshake or strawberry juice you are tasting, smelling and seeing something that give you pleasure, no matter how insignificant it may seem-it will have a positive effect.
Shout it out.
Talking about your worries and frustrations will make you feel less stressed and bottled-up. That is why God created friends and family-to stand-by each other, lend a hand and listen. You will also realize that there are people with greater problems and worries than yours.
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How to Open Your Creativity to the Warm Symphonies of Inspiration All Around You
April 9, 2009
By Dan Goodwin
Ever feel you’re fresh out of new inspiration for your creativity?
Everything you see, feel and think about seems just a tired rehash of an old idea, a repeat of something you’ve already done a lot better.
It’s these times where you need a new injection of inspiration. And this begins by opening your senses, ever ready and waiting to devour new stimulation.
You might wonder what I mean by opening your senses.
It’s not as if you go around with a huge duvet wrapped around your head all day long. Your eyes, ears, nose, mouth and fingers are fully operational, receiving loud and clear the sensory signals all around you. Aren’t they?
How open are you senses REALLY?
Let’s think about hearing and the sense of sound for a moment. Take a typical rock music track, and there are different instruments, different layers in the mix. There might be a drum track, bass guitar, lead guitar, vocals and keyboards. Listening to the music we can isolate each of these and hear the details, the melodies, the rhythms. We can also hear the music as a whole, how it’s all intertwined and forms a single sonic organism, made up of these individual parts.
Wherever you go in your life, this same kind of warm symphony of sound is around you.
Now of course if you’re in your local supermarket, you don’t hear a rock band pounding away as you pass the bakery counter.
Not unless you’re in some very interesting dream.
But maybe what you do hear is the soft hum of background chatter of the staff and customers. Maybe you hear the metallic clink and whoosh of the baker out back lifting trays in out of the ovens. Maybe you heard the ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-klunk of a shopping trolleys half jammed wheels it passes. Maybe you hear the beep-beep-beep of distant checkouts.
The point is, just like recorded music, there’s a multi layered tapestry of sound in our every day lives. But most of the time we don’t even hear it.
Apply this not only to sound, but also to your other senses of sight, scent, taste and touch.
Take a few moments here and there to focus on each of your senses and you’ll quickly realise that in any given situation there’s a huge amount of creative stimulation around you.
So instead of feeling like your in a sensory vacuum, start gently opening each of your senses and noticing the multiple sources of stimulation that can feed your creativity and produce new ideas at any moment.
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