Digging yourself out of a depression can prove to be very difficult. Hypnosis is a tool that allows you to bypass the consciousness and create positive expectations, which will then create positive feelings. You can quickly beat your depression using hypnotherapy and NLP.
Some people call it the ‘pits’ and some people call it the ‘blues’ and some just call it ‘feeling down in the dumps’ Therapy. But whatever you may call it, feeling depressed does not feel good at all. The most common types of depression are:
Major Depression, which is characterized by sadness, Insomnia, and a depressed appetite. Often when a person is in a state of major depression, there is a complete lack of drive and motivation and the sufferer does not want to participate in life. Some people are rendered completely disabled by depression, and some even consider suicide.
Dysthymia: This is a less severe type of long term depression that typically does not totally disable a person. But it prevents the person from feeling motivated and functioning at their best. Sometimes people who are struggling with Dysthymia also suffer from Major Depression, and when this occurs it is referred to as double depression.
Manic Depression is also known as Bipolar Disorder. This type of depression is less common than the first two. It involves cycles of the manic state, alternated with the depressed state. This is often a long term recurring disorder. Sometimes the mood swings occur suddenly. But more often the onset tends to be gradual.
There are a number of variations of depression; the aforementioned are only the most common.
Some symptoms of depression include:
Anxiety; pessimism; sadness; insomnia and other sleep disorders; feelings of worthlessness; guilt; fatigue; weight loss; restlessness; pain; headaches; and thoughts of suicide.
Sources of Depression:
Many types of depression are hereditary. Living in a stressful environment can lead to depression. A trauma such as financial difficulties, a serious loss, or relationship problems can also precipitate a depression.
Women are twice as likely to become depressed as men are, but scientists do not know why.
If you suffer from depression, you will want to seek the advice of your physician. Your doctor may prescribe drugs for you. But keep in mind that every drug has side effects.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could control and eliminate your depression just by thinking certain thoughts? I know that this might sound too simple, but quite often, many types of depression are caused by thinking negative thoughts.
Don’t believe me? Then test it out! It is really quite simple and basic. Just use your imagination to think about something that you find very sad or troubling. Go ahead, think about it right now! Then come back to this article.
OK, so what happened? If you really got into it and visualized the sad situation, you began to feel unhappy and a little depressed. And the more you allow yourself to remain in that pattern of thought, the sadder you will feel. As you stay in those thoughts and continue feeling sadder, you lead yourself into a gradually deepening depression.
The good news is that if you focus on a positive thought, then you will displace that depression and sadness and have happy feelings instead.
Listen carefully now, because here are the keys to eliminating your depression: Our persistent thoughts emerge from the unconscious mind. These are the thoughts that we find ourselves automatically thinking about during the day.
If the persistent thoughts that are continually recurring in your mind are about your problems or sad experiences, then you raise your levels of anxiety, depression, and stress.
But here is the ‘Light at the end of the tunnel’: Since hypnosis is a medium that we can use to change our unconscious thoughts, NLP and self hypnosis stress management programs can rapidly alter the way that you think, feel, and behave. The best part is that the same techniques that work for stress management also work just as well for eliminating depression!
Now I will tell you exactly why and how it’s going to happen. Hypnosis is a natural state of mind. Actually, it’s the Alpha state of consciousness. We go through the Alpha state as we fall asleep at night. And we go through it again as we wake up from sleeping. We also enter the Alpha state when we are imagining and daydreaming.
The unconscious mind is the seat of our emotions, and it’s similar to a computer; the input controls the output! Hypnotherapy is a wonderful tool for engaging directly with the unconscious mind and reprogramming it to automatically divert away from negative thought patterns, and towards positive thinking. It is a tool that allows you to bypass the consciousness to create positive expectations, which will then create positive feelings. You can overcome depression by using hypnotherapy.