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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Healing Depression: Break Out of Your Comfort Zone

by guest blogger Dr. Lara Honos-Webb Depression is nature’s way of pushing you out of your comfort zone Every time you are faced with a fear, realize that each time you act small because of fear - you are moving toward depression. Each time you act big in spite of fear - you are moving into a new stratosphere. Think of all the people who are stopped by fear. When you push through fear you have separated yourself from them. You will become a new creature, a different creature, a better creature, a more highly skilled creature, a more resilient creature. If you take small risks you are like the pioneers, forging new ground - expanding the world as it is currently known. If you take large risks or consistently take small risks you are like an astronaut, going where few have ever gone before, where almost every aspect of your experience, you will be discovering for the first time. If you want to heal your depression begin taking a few small risks. A small risk is one wher...

Posted By newharb / 12:00 AM / Thursday, June 11, 2009

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Capturing Moments of Happiness

Many depressed people can’t conceive of feeling “happy.” The purpose of this section is to show you that you do experience at least momentary happiness on occasion. Most people, even those who aren’t depressed, don’t feel elation—a state of intense happiness—on a regular basis. However, they do experience the many shades of happiness that are also available to you: Pleasure (watching a kitten play) Enjoyment (reveling in a hot bath or shower) Satisfaction (finishing a task) A sense of mastery (completing a difficult project) Relief (finishing a task you’d dreaded) Gratitude (when someone, even a stranger, unexpectedly does something nice for you in some small way, such as opening the door for you, picking up something you’ve dropped, or catching up to you to return something you inadvertently left behind in a cafe or on the subway) The purpose of noticing these approximations of happiness is this: first, to show you tha...

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