Depression Occurs when Preaching & Practice Differ

 

Usually, depression is caused due to the circumstances of a person which are affected by a multitude of factors that cannot be controlled as chemical reactions can be. However, the circumstances can be deciphered through methods like hypnotherapy so that the person can view his or her own self –deception and heal.

The healing of depression requires release of suppressed tension by either changing the circumstances or viewing the self from a detached, observer’s perspective. Depression goes into the background when illusions of a perfect world , a perfect education scenario, a perfect self , a perfect marriage and a perfect job break while imperfections are accepted as a natural norm of life, such that ‘freedom to be naturally different’ replaces chains of ‘why can I not be conventionally perfect ’,in the mind.

Depression is largely a result of self- deception .You become depressed when you feel helpless because things are not asyou believe they should be and you cannot do anything about the situation.

For example, depression in school children can be traced to inadequate sleep patterns, trust being broken repeatedly, unfair criticism, unnecessary performance expectations and excessive pressure on the child’s mind to fit into success norms of the world which have been proven to have failed in creating satisfaction or happiness. 

Children feel insecure and are over stressed often due to irregular family timings or an aggressive family atmosphere.

While preaching discipline to the young minds, at a theoretical level, adults’ own practice does not match the preaching, leaving kids confused and sad. In practice, adults in a modern life style have irregular timings and aggressive relationships since everyone is running the rat race alongwith seeking some semblance of fun, with hardly any time left for harmonizing the body, health and inner space. Last priority effort is invested on stress release as the traditional concept of fun is connected with rebelling secretly while compromising conventionally with the hypocrisy in which you are expected to fit in. Thus, there is dancing, alcoholism,partying, excessive eating, socializing in clubs, pubs or unwinding in discotheques which creates even more stress once layers of self- deception creep up in the subconscious

mind, leading to seeds of depression . 

A healthy mind is an outcome of making a priority to invest some time towards being in peace in free, inner space where there is no pressure to perform in any manner, not even by the clothes you wear or by the ways you choose to differ from others’ thinking; where you have time to just be and contemplate on your positive energies. Feelings of peace and inner space help in healing depression by opening up illusory chains tying up beliefs in the mind. On the other hand, adult fun in today’s world is centred around insisting that illusions are real, competitive lies , deceit and image keeping.

However, young adults or teenagers find it difficult to understand this hypocrisy as it onsets suddenly. A growing up child can feel disillusioned and collapse with the energy of surface lies as a fish without stability when the water is found dirty and infected with the virus of hypocrisy.

For further reading, please refer to the book " Understanding Depression through Clinical Hypnosis "

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