Is it that time of the year already? Pull out the sweaters, holiday decor, travel plans and nutmeg. All good for many, though for some it also retrieves the blues (my physical trainer associates the holidays with loss as it was this time of year he lost his father during his youth).

This issue of the Flyer provides an empowering take on melancholy whether related to holidays or not. The Breaking the Blues post offers an under-the-radar vantage point on depression that can power transcendence of it.

Included in the article is a useful, downloadable 5-Step Stratedgy, “Depress Lifters” sure to empower your well-being capacity. I encourage you to make use of its tips. And do please take the short poll regarding the stratedgy’s usefulness to you!

Also check out the 1-minute, “Answer to Frustration” video that supercharges the absorbtion of this issues potent message!

In parting, remember you are more than the sum total of your exeriences, you are the one who can decide to learn and benefit from them.

Utmost regards,

Hypnotherapists Isaiah

Breaking the Blues

Melancholy, feeling down, unmotivated, depression – I was going to focus this post on ‘holiday blues’ in the advent of the holiday season upon us because for some, holidays can be triggering, but decided it needed to be broader to illumine the disorder of depression that can have debilitating impact.

Depression affects more than 264 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). It's a leading cause of disability globally. In the U.S., the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) reports that an estimated 21 million adults had at least one major depressive episode in 2021, representing 8.4% of all U.S. adults.

The article here does not focus on the pros and cons of diagnosis, or the need for, or appropriateness of medication for treatment of such condition, but rather, the unrecognized culprit that fuels mental and emotional states of dismay, whether mild or severely experienced.

Here’s the thesis I propose for you to consider: Examine what your relationship to life is. Is life based on circumstances that happen and therefore shapes the emotional gage of self-perception? Are you emotionally and psychologically inflated or deflated depending on the nature of the circumstance you are in the midst of? If we take our self-perception cues solely from the landscape of circumstantial particulars, our emotions can become vulnerable to toxic thinking creating a stasis of depressed self-consideration.

In my therapy work when a client is experiencing feelings that depress their homeostasis of vitality, I break down the word, “depression” inquiring, ‘what is being ‘pressed down?’ (i.e., “de-pression.”) In other words, what about your nature wants to soar and express? What is being pressed down? What thoughts (visa vie, feelings) are denying your spirit of possibility?

What perceptions, ideas and thought patterns are saying, “no” to your organic spirit of buoyancy? The physiological (including biological) indicators of depression are not the cause of depression, they are the formed consequences of how one relates to life. (As the current popular idiom states, ‘correlation is not causation’).

If we reduce our beings to biological imperatives we miss the forest for the trees. Chemical imbalances from which emotional and psychological assessments are made, do not create themselves; there are mental causative proponents that manifest as biological profiles.

Soley treating biological profiles void of recognition of your relationship to life itself, misses the primary bases of what it means to be alive. Circumstances are not Life – circumstances are what occur in Life.

If you strip your identity of all the narratives wrought from your circumstantial inferences what remains is pure unadulterated Life. If you strip your subjective associations of what it means to identify father, mother, sibling, race, culture, gender, age, station, geography, what remains is pure being. Don’t write this off as existential musing.

Dare to recognize this as essentially what it means to be Life, and you strip away all the associative anchors that bind causes of depression. This is not an invitation to lobotomize yourself, but rather to liberate yourself from the subjective conditioning that frames your relationship to Life.

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