Is there a relationship between sadness & idleness? What's the difference between sadness & depression? What are the causes of clinical depression? How do you tackle sadness or depression holistically? How do thoughts affect our physical and mental health? What are neural pathways? What's a neural loop? How can one use Neuro Associative Conditioning to tackle depression? How can you preserve mental and emotional well-being?
You cannot tolerate a 'vacuum' in life; get bored. Therefore, you create various problems by changing your attitude towards life. I have personally experienced this. Problems motivate everyone!
If one the trend in individuals suffering from depression, they tend to feel sad when they are 'free' or have no work. It is important to recognize that depression is not a disease but a syndrome. Unlike a cold or fever, it is highly subjective and can only be understood by analyzing the symptoms described by the patient.
SADNESS vs DEPRESSION:
SADNESS can be momentary or for a short period of time. DEPRESSION is nothing but continual extreme sadness over longer periods of time.
Your DEPRESSION to be qualified as CLINICAL DEPRESSION, it must last long for more than 2-weeks.
Most patients suffering from chronic do not engage themselves busily. They prefer to remain free from formal work, which contributes to their sadness. Idleness permits the free flow of thoughts, sad ones. They derive pleasure from feeling sad, often referred to as 'melancholic ecstasy'.
Medical professionals explain a variety of reasons for the cause of depression, such as hormonal imbalances, genetics, changes in the environment, high stress levels. Hormones such as Dopamine & Serotonin are responsible for various vital functions like mood, motivation, cognitive abilities or self-confidence and so on.
Without delving too deeply into the subject, let us examine the fundamental causes of sadness or depression.
Thoughts are a form of energy!
Sadness or happiness are essentially emotions, and emotions driven by thoughts. Thoughts are a form of energy. There is a minute gap between neurons, which is filled by thoughts (energy), providing a similar to an electric current.
Thoughts are very powerful! They play a critical role in maintaining the vital functions of the body.
If you are stressed & worried for longer periods, you develop ulcers or and wide variety of disorders like heart palpitations and so on.
Healthy thoughts like love and gratitude add to your health; unhealthy thoughts like grudges and anger add to your sickness.
Depression is akin to a computer program that you have created, which periodically repeats itself. It is a program of sadness and a tendency to feel self-pity, hosting pity parties with your loved ones, therapists, and doctors. Depression can have triggers such as interacting with certain individuals, experiencing specific weather conditions, being exposed to certain stimuli, or one's own thoughts and reflections. One thing to be noted is a depressed person won't be feeling sad with the same intensity, as reported, they have brief moments of happiness in between depressed states.
These trigger points repeatedly evoke the emotions of sadness by activating identical neural pathways. This results in the same effect as the initial experience of extreme sadness. Through trigger points, the frequency of sadness increases, and it becomes a strong 'neural highway.' Now it's more or less like an algorithm which runs periodically or repeatedly whenever there are inputs. This we call it a 'neural loop.'
Two ways to break Neural Loop- Direct & Indirect.
Neural Pathways are basically created by subconscious tagging to each feeling or activity as either pain or pleasure. Since you have the perception that being is a pleasurable activity, you tend to enter or create that state of mind repeatedly. The word 'Melancholic Ecstasy' indicates this.
Thoughts that run through your day are programmed by the creation of numerous neural pathways. They are programmed by your parents or guardians, your friends, surroundings and you yourself by thinking in different ways or unique ways on certain occasions. If others can change your thoughts or behavior, then you can change it by yourself by being aware and modify your mood or even your physiology.
The solution is to tag pain or understand that it's extremely painful to get depressed. Explain to yourself how painful it's to have those down-movements. How embarrassing it's to feel helpless. It is important to recognize that experiencing depression ultimately affects your immunity and physical health. It is indeed frustrating to endure such suffering. Conversely, engaging in work, conversing with others, or assisting someone can bring immense joy. Being healthy and happy brings a sense of peace. You need to reaffirm continually until you stop creating depressed states of mind This technique is called Neuro Associative Conditioning (NAC).
The other solution is to break this neural loop (habit loop) through the indirect method, you can break the loop by developing a new routine (moderately busy initially & sequentially increasing the busyness,). Furthermore, you have to avoid certain places or persons who activate the same neural highway. You need to replace the neural highway with new routines and habits. New empowering routine and habits can lift you out of the shit hole called 'Depression.' This is applicable to even Anxiety Neurosis or PTSD.
You have a choice to choose happiness or depression, misery or abundance.
Always remember! You are absolutely under your own control, you have absolute control to choose your thoughts, program your mind. In our previous post, we explained about subconscious mind programming, you can learn to tackle depression by programming your subconscious mind. Please take a look at it.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. - Jim Rohn
To maintain all types of health - mental, physical and spiritual, it's extremely important to be active all day. Ancient Japanese technique - Ikigai; it's first commandment to lead a healthy, happy life is to be active all day long.
To be healthy, it's extremely important to be active both mentally and physically.
In support of this, there's a saying- "Idle man's mind is a devil's workshop."
You will be happy, healthy & peaceful if you don't have time to think about whether you are happy, healthy or anything. You should understand that your thoughts affect both mental and physical health. Happy & Enthusiastic thoughts produce endorphins which for pain tolerance, stress bearing ability. They are released during exercises, sexual intercourse and any adventure activities. Therefore, hormonal imbalances, pain, or the ability to bear stress can be by choosing to be happy. Humans are superior because of their ability to think, analyze, reason rationally and choose. Each negative thought is like a virus, it is capable enough to disrupt the proper functioning of mind & body.
Sad thoughts produce illness; happy thoughts produce health.
It is humans to encounter challenges, tasks, or issues that need to be resolved. This is the nature of human existence. Instead of creating problems like depression and anxiety, it better to focus on solving real-world problems and adding value to society. Stay busy! Be active! Choose your thoughts! Have a vision! Solve problems! Be successful!!
Remember, motivation is not the cause of action but a by-product of action.
You can't be motivated all the time to do the work. But it's the commitment and most importantly, the necessity to work, that makes anyone work on something. Once you start the work, if you observe you derive pleasure from it, there's a sense of accomplishment and a boost of self-esteem, after the accomplishment or at the end of the work or the project.
Hope this inspires you!!
Thanks!
YaDu,
On behalf of Get Inspired Spiritually
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