It isn't a chemical imbalance. It's a power Imbalance! Depressions are rational reactions to

Hi Conscious collaborators: Food for thought Dame Kelly Holmes the Olympic athlete that won double gold at 2004 Olympic games said that the severe depression she suffered in 2002-2003 gave her the resilience and strength to win not one but two Olympic golds!.

Then we have Alistair Campbell who was the former labour prime minister Tony Blair's press secretary he said (quote) depression was the making of him!

Aristotle believed depression to be of great value because of the insights it could bring.

There is also an increased empathy in people who have been or who suffer from depression because they become more attuned to other peoples suffering!.

Depression can be traced all the way back to the stone age when close knit communities of about 50 people would have identified it quickly the rest of the group would have rallied round and changes followed such as a new role!.

Another story in the 1970's an Australian psychiatrist tried to sell anti-depressants to Cambodian doctors as they had just come on the market.

To which the doctors said they had there own ant-depressants and had been using them for decades, so the Australian psychiatrist thought that they must be using some herbal remedy of some sort so he asked what they used?

The Cambodian doctor started to tell the story of a rice farmer who had his left leg blown off by a land mine and even after being fitted with a prosthetic leg he continued to feel anxious about the future.

With the new artificial limb and his old job working in the rice paddies was leaving him constantly stressed worrying about the future and in physical pain and causing him to want to stop living,

They had an idea they believed if he became a dairy farmer he could live differently. so

They bought him a cow! in the months and years that followed his life changed his DEPRESSION which had been profound - went away,

You see doctor speaking to the Australian psychiatrist the COW was the antidepressant!

To them finding an antidepressant didn't mean finding a way to change your brain chemistry it mean't finding a way to solve the problem that was causing the depression in the first place.😉

Depressions are rational reactions to the situation or event that requires our conscious attention not some kind of biological break. as it isn't a chemical imbalance it's a power imbalance!

we have physical needs for food, water, shelter, and clean air, and we also have psychological needs too! we need to feel we belong, that we are valued, that we are good at something and that we have a secure future.

If any one of these area's are not being met then it's time to apply conscious attention to whatever area and see it through to a successful conclusion!

You see when we entertain a negative fear driven story we cannot in that moment also be thinking of a positive faith driven story we must choose the positive story and keep choosing it. thankfully a positive will always consume a negative though it won't choose it's self you have to choose it!.

Depression and anxiety are crafty because it tricks you into thinking that you have no control over it and that it's permanent having myself gone through depression and anxiety as a child and through my teens and occasional bouts in my twenties and thirty's

I would change my focus by changing the story! time and time and time again I realised that it was an illusion a fabrication of the truth or not the best example of the truth if you get my drift, an interpretation an emotional perspective even or I'd change the meaning or even my physiology without realising what I was doing

Or that I would share these skills one day with others. depression and anxiety are not the end of the story though they are a necessary part of the story and secondly that we are not just our genes, or our environment and neuro chemicals the TRUTH is our choices can help us Donald > (TRUMP) < all three of those, pardon the intended pun!!! driven by our (new productive beliefs!) faith driven positive stories!

we owe it to ourselves and to our family and friends new and old for when we shine they shine and the world shines brightly!!!

May your day's and night's be filled with many wonderful and at times uncomfortable opportunities to grOW and Learn! love and light Thomas😇