  | | How to Overcome Depression |
By Eric Maisel
The following is an excerpt from the "How to Overcome Depression" on-line course. If you would like to enroll in the course, click here. Our starting point is not the usual starting point in a discussion of depression. Usually depression is characterized as an illness or as a biological, psychological, social, or spiritual disorder. We will start at a different place by asserting that the thing called "depression" is human sadness in one or more of three areas: sadness about the self, sadness about one's circumstances, and sadness about life itself. Before we address these three varieties of sadness I want to present you with the rationale for looking at "depression" as human sadness and not as an illness or a disorder. It is no longer possible to feel sad and blue without someone wanting to call that "depression." For the longest time human beings made the sensible distinction between feeling sad for reasons (say, because they were jobless and homeless) and feeling sad for "no reason," a state traditionally called melancholia. With the rise of four powerful industries, the pharmaceutical industry, the psychotherapy industry, the social work industry, and the pastoral industry, it is has become increasingly difficult for people to consider that sadness might be a very normal reaction to unpleasant facts and circumstances. Cultural forces have transformed a great deal of normal sadness into the "mental illness" of depression. In fact "sadness" and "depression" have become virtual synonyms. Here is a headline right at the beginning. According to the biological depression model, you are the problem: something in you is not working correctly. According to the psychological depression model, you are the problem: maybe it's your learned helplessness, your unresolved conflicts with your parents, your low self-esteem, or something. According to the social depression model, you are the problem: maybe you've become too isolated, maybe you haven't provided yourself with enough social support, etc. According to the spiritual depression model, you are still the problem: you haven't made the right spiritual connections, given yourself over to God, tapped into your spiritual nature, and so on. These four models identify you as the problem. Life is never the problem. How odd! How odd to think that our sadness might not sometimes be related to our life circumstances or to the facts of existence. For more information visit:
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DailyOM Course Spotlight by Kelly Roth & Scott Putnam This course is dynamic, powerful, and life changing. With a team of experts, you are guided through a process of re-creating your relationship with food by working with the energy fields on a spiritual, human, and practical level. Scott Putnam has teamed up with Kelly Roth who is a deeply connected and skilled spiritual messenger and Reiki master. Scott's experience in nutrition, human behavior, and wellness coaching, combined with Kelly's true gifts and ability to tap into the divine living energy of food is a powerful combination. Learn tools and techniques of the mind, body, and spirit to create a healthy relationship with food and finally end self-sabotage! Discover the abundant physical, mental, and spiritual wellness that radiates from those living a lifestyle centered on the idea that real food IS love and medicine! The lessons include step-by-step guided activities, meditations, energy work, journaling, mantras, and more. You'll find guided meditations to relax and focus your energy, which are designed to teach self-healing of negative energy surrounding thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors with food at the center. Watch eating issues disappear and feel the glow of a new and loving relationship with food as it emerges within you.
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7. Break the Grip of Past Lovers
8. Overcoming Body Shame
9. Protect Yourself from Control Dramas
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 | | All Dubiousness Aside | Cancer Horoscope September 30, 2017 A cautious mood can lead you to distrust others today if not kept in check. You may have legitimate reasons for feeling dubious with regard to the motives or intentions of the individuals around you, yet your choice to question all they do is likely not promoting goodwill. If you make a concerted effort to believe that your colleagues, friends, family members, and peers share your values and goals, you may find you can work and play with them more comfortably today. You may also be pleased to see that they make every effort to live up to your expectations because they are honored that you have put your faith in them.
There is nothing inherently wrong with questioning the motives of the individuals we have been called upon to collaborate with at work or at home. However, we can reinforce the bonds of cooperation and perhaps even take these types of relationships to another level by placing our trust in these people. While we may feel somewhat wary at first, our cohorts will usually live up to our expectations because they understand that our shared endeavors will progress more smoothly once all suspicions have been banished. When we believe that our partners will keep our confidence and furthermore accept their motives as sincere, we will not hesitate to brainstorm openly with them when vital matters are at stake. Your choice to put aside caution will help you relate more openly with the associates who form a part of your core group of support today. |
DailyOM Course Spotlight by Kelly Roth & Scott Putnam This course is dynamic, powerful, and life changing. With a team of experts, you are guided through a process of re-creating your relationship with food by working with the energy fields on a spiritual, human, and practical level. Scott Putnam has teamed up with Kelly Roth who is a deeply connected and skilled spiritual messenger and Reiki master. Scott's experience in nutrition, human behavior, and wellness coaching, combined with Kelly's true gifts and ability to tap into the divine living energy of food is a powerful combination. Learn tools and techniques of the mind, body, and spirit to create a healthy relationship with food and finally end self-sabotage! Discover the abundant physical, mental, and spiritual wellness that radiates from those living a lifestyle centered on the idea that real food IS love and medicine! The lessons include step-by-step guided activities, meditations, energy work, journaling, mantras, and more. You'll find guided meditations to relax and focus your energy, which are designed to teach self-healing of negative energy surrounding thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors with food at the center. Watch eating issues disappear and feel the glow of a new and loving relationship with food as it emerges within you.
Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. Fit and Fierce Over 40
2. 21 Day Booty Core
3. Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting the Soul
4. 21 Day Beginner Yoga
5. A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back!
6. Letting Go with Forgiveness
7. Break the Grip of Past Lovers
8. Overcoming Body Shame
9. Protect Yourself from Control Dramas
10. 21 Day Yoga Shred For Men
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 | | Finding the Place You Belong |
by Madisyn Taylor There will likely be times in your life when your soul evolves more quickly than your circumstances. Your subconscious mind may be ready to move forward long before you recognize that you are destined to embrace a new way of life. Your soul intuitively understands that changing habitats can be a vital part of the growth process and that there may be one part of you that is eager to move to another home, another state, or another plane of existence. But the ties that bind you to your current mode of being can make moving into this next stage of your life more challenging than it has to be. If you find it difficult to move on, consider that just as people in your life may come and go, your role in others' lives may also be temporary. And many of the conditions that at first seemed favorable served you for a short time. When you are ready to match your situation to your soul, you will find that you feel a new sense of harmony and increasingly connected to the ebb and flow of the universe.
Moving on can be defined in numerous ways. Your forward momentum may take you from your current locale to a place you instinctively know will be more nurturing, comfortable, and spiritually enriching. Once you arrive, your misgivings will vanish, and you will know that you have found a sanctuary. Similarly, subtle changes in your values, goals, or emotional needs can motivate you to distance yourself from one group of people in order to reassociate yourself with individuals that are better able to support you. For example, this could mean moving away from your birth family in order to find your energetic or spiritual family. The route you need to travel may not always be clear; you may feel inspired to change yet be unsure as to why or how. Clarity may come in the form of a question if you are willing to seriously ask yourself where your soul is trying to take you.
In a way, moving from one point to another when you feel strongly driven to do so is a way of bringing your spiritual and earthly energies together. It is a two-step process that involves not only letting go but also reconnecting. You will know you have found your destination, physical or otherwise, when you feel in your heart that you have been reborn into a life that is just the right shape, size, and composition. |
DailyOM Course Spotlight by Catherine Ann Jones Today, in modern life, a fragmentation separates most of us from our central core, or soul. With all our outer progress, perhaps something has been lost which earlier cultures knew to value: the soul connection. This course offers a creative tool for individuals, therapists, and teachers in dealing with grief and trauma in today's world by providing a means for a deeper dialogue with the Soul, an awakening of the inner visionary. Deep listening is more than simply recalling what you know. It is learning to trust that inner voice that reflects intuitive insight. All that is required is to be still and attentive - not to what the ego desires - but to the soul's calling. Accessing and communicating with the inner visionary is a universal way of healing, growth, and transformation. It is not only the world that needs changing - it is ourselves. This course guides you on a step by step journey of discovery, expanding your world both within and without. In this way, global healing takes place one individual, one tribe at a time.
Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. Fit and Fierce Over 40
2. Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting the Soul
3. 21 Day Booty Core
4. 21 Day Beginner Yoga
5. A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back!
6. Protect Yourself from Control Dramas
7. Letting Go with Forgiveness
8. Break the Grip of Past Lovers
9. Overcoming Body Shame
10. 21 Day Yoga Shred For Men
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| | Learning About Beliefs | Cancer Horoscope September 29, 2017 You could find yourself learning about other people's belief systems today, which could cause you to consider your own beliefs more deeply. You may be feeling thoughtful as you examine all that you have learned in light of all that you had come to believe. As you make connections and reach a new level of understanding, you may be feeling broad-minded. It is likely that you will enjoy this expanded consciousness and want to share it with everyone you know. Sometimes the only way for us to understand our own culture is to compare it to another, but we don't need to decide that one is wrong and the other is right. Instead we can seek the underlying truth and see how they are each just another way of saying the same thing. Today by being willing to learn about those who are different from you, you become a bridge to creating understanding everywhere you go.
Every time one member of our human family reaches across to another in a desire for understanding, there is a spark of peace. When we choose to do this, we help to broaden each other's minds, extending our ideas beyond what we know so that we may all embrace new perspectives. By engaging in this sort of exploration, we lead humanity toward a greater recognition of our oneness and our universal connection. Today you are a bridge builder and a peace maker, leading the world to an acceptance of our unity. |
DailyOM Course Spotlight by Catherine Ann Jones Today, in modern life, a fragmentation separates most of us from our central core, or soul. With all our outer progress, perhaps something has been lost which earlier cultures knew to value: the soul connection. This course offers a creative tool for individuals, therapists, and teachers in dealing with grief and trauma in today's world by providing a means for a deeper dialogue with the Soul, an awakening of the inner visionary. Deep listening is more than simply recalling what you know. It is learning to trust that inner voice that reflects intuitive insight. All that is required is to be still and attentive - not to what the ego desires - but to the soul's calling. Accessing and communicating with the inner visionary is a universal way of healing, growth, and transformation. It is not only the world that needs changing - it is ourselves. This course guides you on a step by step journey of discovery, expanding your world both within and without. In this way, global healing takes place one individual, one tribe at a time.
Top 10 DailyOM Courses 1. Fit and Fierce Over 40
2. Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting the Soul
3. 21 Day Booty Core
4. 21 Day Beginner Yoga
5. A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back!
6. Protect Yourself from Control Dramas
7. Letting Go with Forgiveness
8. Break the Grip of Past Lovers
9. Overcoming Body Shame
10. 21 Day Yoga Shred For Men
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