Banish Depression!
September 26th 2006 02:10
Much depression, I believe, is caused by believing a lot of lies about oneself. Over a period of time, especially in one's impressionable childhood, one perceives the comments of parents, schoolmates, teachers, siblings, family. Seeing that you are a child, you tend to think they know better than you, and so you believe what is said about you. Together with your feelings about things, it all goes deep down into your bones and you build a life around what you have believed about yourself.
This is not a life that is proportionate with your potential, with what God has placed in you in terms of talent etc. Trying to balance the lies and keep pace with what you suppose the world expects of you is a huge struggle. Depression can be over-powering.
God has a better plan. Truth sets you free of those lies, free to live in reality! You are wonderfully made (Psalm 139) and capable of living wonderfully! This is reality. It doesn't mean ithat living in reality doesn't take heaps of energy. It does. But the peace is greater!
This is not a life that is proportionate with your potential, with what God has placed in you in terms of talent etc. Trying to balance the lies and keep pace with what you suppose the world expects of you is a huge struggle. Depression can be over-powering.
God has a better plan. Truth sets you free of those lies, free to live in reality! You are wonderfully made (Psalm 139) and capable of living wonderfully! This is reality. It doesn't mean ithat living in reality doesn't take heaps of energy. It does. But the peace is greater!
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Comment by Ailene
Comment by Anonymous
There is room for minor keys of compassion, but your life should be mainly played in the major keys of optimism and faith. You need to choose your chords carefully to create great music. It doesn't just happen!
Comment by Fingertip Titans Unite
Idiots Among Us
Fingertip Titans
There are some people who literally have a "chemical imbalance" I am one of those people. However, if you look deep into the mental state of people who's depression has manifested in a physical cause, there is something in their belief system that is causing them to create that imbalance.
This is the situation with myself, so I'm not accusing anyone of making excuses. I've spent most of the past 3 years looking for a permanent remedy. I've posted some of my findings on my blog, if anyone is interested.
Comment by Helen's House
Truth Wisdom Freedom
I agree with your summation of depression. I also read your blog and search for health from depression. The only coution I have is that the tapes you listen to need to have real God's Truth. Otherwise you can be replacing one lie with another, which simply complicates matters. Contrary to what some think, Truth is not relative. It is absolute. It's build around love - the God kind, not the eros kind! Like the laws of physics it doesn't change with fashion. It is powerful, healing and trustworthy.
Comment by Fingertip Titans Unite
Idiots Among Us
Fingertip Titans
The science behind it is this: Brainwave patterns are "rhythms". These rhythms correspond with specific frequencies of sound, and can be reproduced using specific frequencies of sounds.
Just like a guitar will begin to vibrate when you lean it against a speaker playing music, Your brain begins to "vibrate" in harmony with the tones you introduce, and these vibrations have been linked to various states of being.
The brainwave pattern most dominant during a very receptive awake state is Theta (this is simply a name for a particular range of frequencies, and would be the pattern most dominant during prayer or meditation) Theta brainwaves are also dominant and even unbalanced in depressed people. The remedy is to produce more Beta, Alpha, and longer periods of Delta patterns. During some of these "states" Seratonin is reproduced, I've personally noticed a pretty notable improvement. I dont have to take medicine anymore for depression, I listen to a session every day.
For people who are into meditation, Brainwave entrainment is something that has been used since the beginning of time, drumbeats to help bring about a deep meditative state are rhythms that fall in the Delta range, and I've done some sessions designed to enhance meditation, and it is powerful stuff.
I come from a very Pentacostal background, so i can relate to your stand that "God" is to be the basis of everything, but I've come to the conclusion (and the bible supports this conclusion) That God is All-Powerful, All-Knowing, and All-Present because he is the energy that everything is created from.
At the very core of every single thing that is, is energy. Our hands are made of muscles and tissues, which are made of cells, which are made of atoms, which are made of sub-atomic particles which are held together by invisible energy. The energy that holds a water molecule together KNOWS that is is a Water molecule, as opposed to an air molecule, and hangs out with other water molecules, and that's where we get water from. The awareness that it is a water molecule comes from the Universal Conciousness that is what we call "God" It is part of us, and we are all part of it (If you abide in me and my words abide in you)
In the beginning, there was the Word, and the word was WITH God, and the word WAS God. So before air, water, and light and dark ever even existed, there was Universal Conciousness, and it was aware of itself. But it couldn't experience itself without something to contrast, so it created. Light and dark aren't really opposites, but opposing perceptions of the same Energy. but without Dark, you couldn't experience light, and vice versa.
this is getting to be a long comment huh? maybe I should blog on it, and just invite comments, huh?
Thanks for the comments, anyway. Be Blessed.
Comment by Helen's House
Truth Wisdom Freedom
The problem with deep states of meditation is that you don't know what is coming in. Sounds may produce an Alpha state but that very state is non-selective and opens the way for the demonic. This can make you feel very comfortable initially, but the payout comes later.
I returned to God after some years in "meditation" and other skills, when I became disillusioned about their real benefits. Nowadays I'd be terrified of submitting myself to the possibility of any but the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, love and wisdom. He comes only by direct request.