Although the evidence of depression might be all too real for you, depression is simply not real. If you’re suffering from depression, you’re only imagining it because depression is the direct result of your subconscious mind’s obsession with useless thoughts that were impressed upon it during your childhood years. It is normal for your subconscious mind to dwell on the past – everyone’s does – it’s simply that the nonsense that yours is focused on is evidently a little (or a lot) off the beaten track. This is not your fault – your subconscious mind was conditioned with those thoughts by others, people and events that made you feel bad, guilty, upset during your childhood years.
Whilst it’s normal for your subconscious to dwell on out-dated deeply-rooted thoughts, this habit doing you damage – you have the evidence of it in your daily life. Again, you shouldn’t feel bad about this – everyone’s subconscious mind is doing the same damage – you’re lucky that you have the advantage over others in realizing that you’ve got a problem.
But that problem is solely down to what your subconscious mind is paying attention to. You’ve got to tear your mind away from those self-destructive thoughts and redirect your attention to the only place and time that is actually real, the only time and place that you can fully live – the present moment. If you manage to turn your attention to the present moment you will experience something that you probably have never experienced before – there’s no such thing as depression, there’s no such thing as anxiety or fear, there’s just a wonderful world full of possibilities and opportunities – and quantum physics proves that that wonderful world is simply waiting to respond to your hopes and dreams.
Medication or pills won’t enable you experience the difference between reality and the illusion of stress – they might make the pain vanish for a while but your subconscious mind will always slither back to the old, out-dated thoughts that aren’t real but just an imprint of a past long gone. The one way in which you will experience reality – one cleansed of depression – is to learn how to clear your mind. This is no big deal because, as a child, you had a totally clear mind – that’s how those bad feelings were impressed upon you way back then. All you have to do now is re-train yourself to focus on what your five senses are telling you, just right now – without putting your subconscious mind’s warped interpretation onto the facts.
I believe that the best way to relearn how to pay attention to the reality of the present moment is meditation – preferably, for starters, guided meditation. It may take you a while to get used to it, it can be difficult, but a little commitment will bring about the incredible benefit of your being able to live your life to the full.
