Depression Self Help and The Biology of How Our Brain Works

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Depression Self Help and The Biology of How Our Brain Works

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When we are experiencing depression, anxiety and stress to any marked degree, our brains are manufacturing and working in an environment of certain chemicals. These chemicals are how our brain tells itself if it is in a good, safe and pleasant environment or if it is in a dangerous and hostile environment-pure and simple.

Depression Self Help and Getting Out of Balance

For some of us, our lives have contained overwhelming obstacles and tragic losses that were, or presently are, beyond our ability to cope. This is emotional abuse by definition, whether or not it was caused by another person does not matter, it is definitely emotional abuse.

What happens with someone suffering from a prolonged state of depression, or anxiety to an uncomfortable degree, is that our brain’s ability to naturally produce certain chemicals changes over time.

Depression Self Help and Brain Chemicals

When you exercise your body in certain muscles what happens? Those muscles get stronger. If we train for strength, or we train for speed and endurance, our body will redefine its abilities towards that which we train for.

The feelings in our brain can be trained for in the same way, albeit unconsciously. If we have prolonged hardship and loss, our brains have had plenty of exercise in making and living in the chemicals which tell it that we are in an undesirable situation.

The more we have been immersed in the bad and empty feelings, the more our brains get better at producing them. The practice of making the chemicals that give us our sense of well being, deep satisfaction, and bright enthusiasm becomes harder to do because there has been less and less need to do so.

After a while our brains will lose their ability and tendency to make them in the quantities necessary, even for events that would warrant their production, and create feelings of satisfaction and enthusiasm.

Depression Self Help Exercising Our Brain with Relived Positive Experiences

We can reverse this process by focusing on all the good things that we have experienced in our life, also on the significance of them. This will retrain our brains to start making the good-feeling chemicals again naturally and automatically.

What our brain needs is practice in letting us feel good, so it can become skilled at creating the feel-good chemicals we need to see life positively and realistically again. If the good experiences do not happen, then we can create them by remembering the good things in our past, and focusing on the good things in our life today, to give them more emphasis.

Depression Self Help and The Secret of How Our Brain Works

The miracle of how our brains work is that it does not know the difference between an imaginary event and an actual event. That is why simulators work well to train aircraft pilots, and memorization works very well to perform sports tasks like gymnastics, diving and wrestling.

Depression Self Help and How Positive Focusing Heals Us Spiritually

The more we focus on the positive things that we have experienced, the more our brains can begin to feel more at ease, positive and enthusiastic again as a normal state. When this happens, another of our brain’s characteristics kicks into play. We have spoken elsewhere how we seek to see patterns in our environment, which is exactly what will happen in this case.

What happens if we are blue and sad? We see all of life’s problems and obstacles in a dark way and we see hopelessness.

What would you think would happen if we feel happy and enthusiastic? We would see all the opportunities and good things waiting for us to take advantage of. We will see that which we feel.

Our lives are full of good things and positive choices we can do, but we cannot see them if we are depressed, nor would we have the initiative to act on them if we did. Our luck has not changed, but our ability to see our luck certainly has!

The best depression self help tip is to learn to see the good in our past, and it will enhance our ability to see God’s opportunities for us in our future.

Start thinking about your good things.

Positivity clears our vision and we can see God’s blessings right under our nose!

Remember it will take a lot of practice, but looking at the good will make us start feeling good. When we feel good, we can begin to see the Pot of Gold at the end of our rainbow, right at our feet!

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