Healing Depression

Lets start with a simple statement.  

I suffer from depression.

Suffer is a good word to use, since as those with depression know, when you are in the negative spiral of depression, it does a pretty good job of shredding your mind.

I don't suffer from depression

Taoism teaches how to flip everything around. So I don't suffer from depression. Instead I embrace it, understand it, accept it, work with it and modify my life accordingly , in potential to shift my life in a positive manner.

I do experience "depression" and I do have to mitigate it's effects. I won't take medication since medication goes against my philosophy. Fortunately, my Taoist practice mitigates quite a bit of the effects of the depression when I do feel it.

It isn't easy to resolve depression in this manner, since it's a dynamic process: Full of practice, exercises, actions, philosophy and life style modifications to balance out my nature in a full manner.

I am not telling people they don't need medication or there are miracle cures. What I am saying is: Depression requires a definite understanding and acceptance of how you live life. That by shifting life it's possible to shift how any such ailment such as depression effects your life. A simple truth, if a person embraces such a truth it means it's possible to always profoundly improve life by positive actions.

In the end, It's your life: Will you be defined by a term: such as "depression" or will you let your life expand out. To let your life be full and how you then hold yourself be your actual namesake.

If you hold yourself as depression then you will be depression. Release that to start discover new names to define life by.

I don't suffer depression, nor will I think of myself in that way. I have my great days, my low days and the tides of my life ebb and flow. I walk the beach every day, and that beach is my life.

Namaste