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HOW TO CURE DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY Written by : Rev. Anatoli Gradinarov /metaphysical minister and a life couch The topics “ how to cure depression ” or “ how to cure anxiety asks so many questions and receives so little vague and confusing answers from contemporary science. This word was the reason I started to ask myself questions, and actually find their answers outside from traditional scientific circles. Moreover, I don’t want to sound like a discoverer— these answers were there for millennia, but human mind likes to dogmatize certain beliefs, denouncing everything else. I was depressed for many years without even realizing it. I realized it with the onset of panic attacks, when I was twenty nine years old. I had them for years, and my senses were so askew that I was convinced that the world was a dark place, where man fought for survival. In a period of several years I lived in three countries, and attended physicians in all of them. Some prescribed potent drugs, others mild ones, but there was no effect, until one doctor told me there was no cure, and everything might subside with time. My analytical mind could not comprehend this. How come there was no cure? I believed in science, and thought it had all answers. With the panic attacks I started having very high blood pressure. Physicians focused on it, and prescribed me pills, which I had to take my entire life. This was the latest discovery of science—if you have high blood pressure, you have to take pills,

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The topics “how to cure depression” or “ how to cure anxiety “ asks so many questions and receives so little vague and confusing answers from contemporary science. This word was the reason I started to ask myself questions, and actually find their answers outside from traditional scientific circles. Moreover, I don’t want to sound like a discoverer—these answers were there for millennia, but human mind likes to dogmatize certain beliefs, denouncing everything else.I was depressed for many years without even realizing it. I realized it with the onset of anxiety attacks, when I was twenty nine years old...

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HOW TO CURE DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY Written by : Rev. Anatoli Gradinarov /metaphysical minister and a life couch

The topics “how to cure depression” or “ how to cure anxiety “ asks so many questions and receives so little vague and confusing answers from contemporary science. This word was the reason I started to ask myself questions, and actually find their answers outside from traditional scientific circles. Moreover, I don’t want to sound like a discoverer—these answers were there for millennia, but human mind likes to dogmatize certain beliefs, denouncing everything else.

I was depressed for many years without even realizing it. I realized it with the onset of panic attacks, when I was twenty nine years old. I had them for years, and my senses were so askew that I was convinced that the world was a dark place, where man fought for survival. In a period of several years I lived in three countries, and attended physicians in all of them. Some prescribed potent drugs, others mild ones, but there was no effect, until one doctor told me there was no cure, and everything might subside with time. My analytical mind could not comprehend this. How come there was no cure? I believed in science, and thought it had all answers. With the panic attacks I started having very high blood pressure. Physicians focused on it, and prescribed me pills, which I had to take my entire life. This was the latest discovery of science—if you have high blood pressure, you have to take pills, until the end of your life. I told them many times that my blood pressure was a result of my panic attacks, and if this condition could be fixed, my blood pressure would have normalized.

Then I started practicing meditation. Five months later I had no panic attacks or high blood pressure. I no longer needed pills, which I had to take until the end of my life. We are used to taking a pill!... This is part of the madness of contemporary civilization.

Everything we know, we believe we can, the way we do things, the whole image we have about ourselves and the surrounding

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world is based on information, which we gathered unconsciously and consciously on different levels of our subconscious. Where did this information come from? First our parents, then teacher, religion, politicians, news, friends. Everybody is trying to capture our attention, so they can tell us who they are. Man is a territorial animal, i.e. he defends the feeling of his Self, and in this feeling falls the information, which he knows about the world. He subconsciously believes that his truth is not a viewpoint, but the truth.

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That’s why, when he argues, the goal isn’t to discover truth, but to prove the other is wrong, and he is right. That’s why, in such situations voices are raised, they are noticeably rougher, the interlocutor is not listened to, and words are interrupted. Mind becomes territorial, and causes negative emotions, which actually are danger signals. These are all territorial, unconscious, behavior models for identity defense. The information, which is in my head, is mistaken for who I am, and defending this information, I actually defend myself. So everyone tries to capture our attention, to tell us who they are, what their opinion on everything is, because if I lack an opinion on an issue, a sense of lessened Self is created, which causes danger signals in the mind through thoughts and emotions for territorial danger. After the information had been given to us, we accepted it, because the above-mentioned are bigger, more knowledgeable, and higher in the hierarchy in our mind. All of them gives information, but through their own territorial Self, describing the world and themselves, but also pointing out our place in that world, and the whole value system, which they believe we should adopt. And we adopt it. When we adopt this information, and we already had built our own image of the Self and the world, and our role in the world. We are told, which professions will make us feel more like ourselves (usually doctors, bankers, lawyers, etc.), and which are the bottom, when we should normally marry, how we should live, so we create a feeling for a greater Self. When we were children, we wanted to be astronauts, sailors, pilots, and our value system

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was free, pure, happy value system of travelers and dreamers, but after we take all this external information, we become a part of a world matrix—a matrix of right and wrong, of failure and success, of black and white. This matrix puts us in a world of constant competition. Competition with the people around us, with ourselves, and in a fight with the world around us, which we see as hostile, because it does not revolve around our understanding of what things should be, according to our plan. Every time, when we feel the image of our Self falls to lower levels in the classification of the world matrix, our mind signals for danger. The thoughts become deeply negative and territorial, causing negative emotions. We feel it as anger, sadness, agitation, and all kinds of negativity, which cause the rise of adrenalin in the body. From biological viewpoint the body readies to escape from danger, or to fight. The feeling of Self is endangered. Endangered is who we believe we are. If we don’t achieve something according to the world matrix in given time, we experience the feeling of danger—negativity in the case. The Self might be hurt from someone, who doubts its integrity and significance. Maybe now you realize the illusory character of the whole suffering. There is no real danger of death. There is a matrix, which someone told you to follow, and you trust him. And because you don’t live up to it, you suffer. The diagnose, although I am sure no psychoanalyst would describe it this way, is wrong information in the head about who I am, and what I have to do. The recipe is change of this information, and raise of my consciousness, so I realize that all that causes suffering is just information.

Make two exercises, which will allow you to learn control over these processes.

Start taking a walk for twenty minutes a day, intent on meditating. After the walk take a seat, and write down your thoughts. The way you express yourself should be like these are someone else’s thoughts, and you monitor them. Something like: “I thought about what he told me, and the way his words made me feel “. It shouldn’t be: “How dared he tell me this!”

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I also give you affirmatives, which you should repeat three times a day, at least three times each. Sit comfortably, relax your body, but focus on what you read and repeat. Speak the words with normal voice, not too loudly or quietly, and try to feel the words. These affirmatives and the above exercise will raise the level of your consciousness, and will create a habit to monitor yourself, interrupting your identification with information.

Affirmatives:

- I am aware that I am thinking .

-I am aware of every thought that I am thinking .

-I learn to divide my mind into two parts -that which is thinking , and Master Control Awareness of what I am thinking .

-Through the Master Control Awareness , I censor or accept every thought .

-The moment I think a negative or destructive thought , I tell myself "I nullify that thought so that it does not enter my subjective mind " .

-Every time I find myself thinking a negative or depressing thought , I will see how fast I can get rid of it through the above affirmation .

- every time I think an unkind thought toward someone . I catch myself and say : " Guide me to understand why they are as they are , and through understanding , I bless them " .

- If I find it difficult to bless someone due to a great deal of ill feeling , I say the following : " I call upon the Universal God-Mind within me to forgive the person whom I , at the moment , do not seem to have the power to forgive . "

-The is a positive and negative side to every person and thing . If I start to think about the negative , I catch myself , and then immediately begin to think about the positive side .

-I work constantly on trying to shorten the time it takes to censor or reject a negative thought .

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-I am constantly aware of the fact that my every thought has the psychic power to either clear up your problems , or keep them alive and attract even more to me .

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