Specific Alternative Therapies and Their Role in Curing Depression and Anxiety

Depression and Anxiety Alternative Therapies

Welcome to our website. If you or a loved one is experiencing depression or anxiety to a life damaging degree, we wish you every success in your search for answers. You are wise in looking at all areas for help, for in many cases, the cause may not be in the obvious physical or emotional realm. Human beings are more than a biological entity, and as such, we live in different dimensions simultaneously. Although depression and anxiety are different situations altogether, they can be severe, and can have common causes, and be just different symptoms. In this section, we will talk about depression as natural doctors and healers see it. Anxiety and depression alternative therapies hit the problem from all sides, whereas western medicine attack problem from only one angle.

In traditional western medicine, we see all maladies as an imbalance of the chemicals and nutrients in the body, or an invasion of microbes, as in an infection. Optimum performance and experience happens with a good balance of these chemicals, free of invading microbes. Limited performance and experience happens with an imbalance of these chemicals. We assume in western medicine, if you get the body in balance, all others levels of behavior and experience will follow. However, a healthy robust body alone does not translate into a full and meaningful life. There are the emotional and electrical fields that we live in that contribute to that healthy life as well. Unlike in western medicine, where we treat symptoms with medicines introduced into the body at the physical level only, anxiety and depression alternative therapies may introduce adjustments from a whole range of levels. Non-western approach is to strive for balance at a more quantum level, embracing the idea that the mind and body influence each other, and that balance must extend out beyond the physical to the electrical levels. Alternative therapy assumes the body, mind, and spirit act in harmony. That harmony includes vibrational input from the electrical fields within and around the body and mind, observed as an Aura. Balance of the electrical energies can change based upon introduction of chemicals found in plants, and with the introduction of aromas, colors of light, methods of breathing, posture, and how we perceive our environment. Alternative medical practitioners administer these treatments through acupuncture, chiropractic, massage, yoga, hypnosis, biofeedback, aromatherapy, guided imagery, and herbal treatments, as well as diet and exercise. Anxiety and depression alternative therapies work best in combinations, as the assumption is that the imbalance may be in more than one area.

Depression or anxiety is a condition of your spirit, which can start because of unmet emotional needs from childhood. Over time, adopted behaviors of personal neglect may contribute to the cause even more, as in the case of improper eating, sleep deprivation, and lack of exercise. When we do not feel good for any reason, the natural inclination is to neglect ourselves, either by choice or by ignorance. Such neglects at some point can become the causes themselves. Anxiety and depression alternative therapies work best at eliminating all causes simultaneously.

The Miracle of You

You are a far more complex and wonderfully made being than you ever imagined, and once you make effort to find your answers, your mind and body will respond to help you. You are not in this situation alone, for your body and subconscious mind will respond with assistance of their own. Very specific information about herbs, treatments, and practitioners is abundant on the internet, and to duplicate all of that here would serve no purpose. What we want to talk about is the best approach as you search for your answers among the many disciplines available in these alternative therapies.

The first step we suggest is to talk to your self. Begin by concentrating your attention on you, what you are feeling, and see yourself as a source of your answers. This step will serve the purpose to lead you to the most effective alternative or traditional treatments for you. As you look to yourself for suggestions, a new concept of yourself will emerge. This concept we call the ‘Inner Wonder Child.’ There is a connection within all of us to the source of all answers. That is the connection we all have within to God, or to the Loving Mother Universe, if you will. This tie cannot be broken.

However as we grow up, we lose awareness of it as a source of our answers and guidance. As we leave home and venture out into the ‘real world’ as we call it, we externalize ourselves. Our problems come from outside in our environment, and we therefore assume all our answers to those problems exist outside ourselves as well. The tendency over time is to neglect any deep inner feelings or desires we may have, which try to lead us to the natural setting in life where we will find happiness. Your body and your mind know exactly what it needs to heal itself and create fulfillment. Natural cravings for what your body and mind need come from within, from the spiritual center of yourself, which is your heart.

Do not confuse addiction cravings like food, sex, alcohol, drug, caffeine, and cigarette cravings for the deeper cravings of your heart. These are from two different and very discernible sources. If you crave caffeine for example, you already know that craving because it is on the surface, and you can detect it there. However, there is a deeper craving or yearning you also have of a voice below the surface at the same time. That still small voice underneath that craving is what is telling you that you should cut back, and stop the consumption of all that coffee. For alcohol, drugs, and more severe addictions, the voice is also there.

That sensitive small voice within may have been making you feel bad deep inside for doing life-damaging things, but that is not its only purpose. Making you feel guilty may have been the reason you quit listening and suppressed its warnings about your life. However, that voice is a powerful tool to help you find your answers for your depression. Instead of suppressing it, focus on it and listen to it.

It is far more than just a conscience to impose guilt feelings when we injure ourselves. That same inner voice is our personal map to guide us to what will make us happy and fulfilled. Our inner wonder child is also our source for guidance to specific things that will heal us. In its highest development, our wonder child will lead us to our promised land of our highest achievement.

Let is compare you and your inner wonder child to being a ship at sea. You are that ship, and your inner wonder child is the man in the crow’s nest high in the rigging. If the ship does not listen to the man in the crow’s nest, the ship will sail into storms or worse, into coral reefs or hostile seas. Such may be the reason for the depression and the causes of it in your world. Imbalance somewhere caused the depression, either emotional or physical self-neglect. Unlike getting a cold or flu, the causes of depression, or the condition of anxiety can begin anywhere on the map. Therefore, the best choice is to ask your self, ‘Where do I feel like beginning?’

Make a list of the available anxiety and depression alternative therapies in your area. Which therapies are of most interest to you? Begin with a discipline that you would like to learn about, not just as a corrective measure, but may turn into a hobby or possibly a future profession. If there is one thing we would like you to leave here with, it is the knowledge of your inner self as a source for your solutions to your life’s obstacles, as well as a guide to all your happiness.

Finding the right cures between the anxiety and depression alternative therapies may be only the beginning for your or your loved one’s new life.

For more on this subject please consider our first in series book Overcoming Depression from Emotional Abuse/The Tools of Your Mind. In it, we take you through your spiritual journey back home to your Original Self. We talk about God's purpose behind that soul’s journey, as we follow our heart’s dreams to our ultimate destiny. We answer many questions about selfishness, prosperity, psychotherapy, and finding our dreams and happiness. We share much about boundaries. We also talk about the spiritual controls we have within to bring our good to us. Those controls are our Sincerity Switch, Spontaneity Switch, and lastly our Feelings and Dreams Switch.

Please contact us and share your trials and victories with us. We would love to hear from you and pray for your growth or that of your loved ones. We promise to answer every Email personally.

Thank you for visiting!

Shayne and Lori North in Aurora, Colorado

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