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33.5 Easy Ways for Overcoming Depression
29 Jul 2009
Are you working on overcoming depression? Here are 33.5 easy and effective solutions to change your life and finally end your depression.
1. Understand there are good and bad days
Some days you feel like nothing can stop you. Other days you feel utterly hopeless. Most of the time you’re somewhere in between. Understanding the pattern of positive and negative emotions will help you put your feelings in perspective. Next time you feel down, remember it will go away. It is not permanent.
2. Look at the Big Picture
Look right now for an image of the Earth. Look how big and magnificent it is. Now think about you. Do you think you are important in this world? Not really. Then, why are you so depressed?! Think of it as a freedom contract. If you are not a big deal, then why take things so seriously? As a world, we look smaller against the galaxy, and even smaller against the universe. So, find happiness in what you are, find problems as insignificant, and forget about depression.
3. Look back to your triumphs
Think about what you have done in your life. Even when you will tend to go back and look at it, as a failure, take a few minutes to remember your past accomplishments and build yourself up. What have you learn in your experience? Use it now, know you can succeed again overcoming depression.
4. Appreciate yourself.
63.5 Real Ways to Change Your Life
23 Jul 2009
To start to change your life, there are simple and real ways to do it. In this list, I have gathered 63.5 explained ideas to change your life.
1. Set Goals
Setting goals is the best and effective way to change your life. If you ask people, 90% don´t know what they want in life. To read how to set your goals and getting them, read the article Self Help Motivation.
2. Write your purpose
Can you tell your life purpose? If you didn’t answer immediately, you haven’t figure it out. Think about what is your mission in life, what is the reason of you living. Is it about god, others, you? Think of your past experiences, what is the road you have walked? Where are you going? What I have learned in my life, is that the purpose is the pursuit, the road you walk. It is not about getting to a place, but the trip you do to get there.
3. Take a walk
This is great to clear your mind from all the problems, and to think about how to change your life. In other words, to think about your life. Go out, clear your mind, appreciate what you have, appreciate what you are doing. There will be no perfect moment, than now.
4. Forgive Yourself
Most of the issues people work on is on themselves. And the main cause is their inability to forgive themselves from actions or decisions they have taken. Go to a mirror, and tell yourself “I forgive you”, this may be what you have been needing.
Change Your Life: Organize Your Life
20 Jul 2009
Are you doing the activities needed to reach your goals? You may be thinking it’s because you don’t have time. Well, that is not the reason. It’s how you organize your life…
Some people believe that to change your life, you have to make a 360° turn. In some cases, yes. But a lot of people, just need to be more organize. We tend to think of organize people, as the character of friends, Monica Geller. In the show, she even had 11 categories for her towels! That is overreacting, not to be organized. My point is, to organize your life, you don’t need to get to that extreme.
Before start to organize everything your house, you need to organize your life, and my that, I mean your mind. Problems are a permanent element in life. If you expect to start doing the things you want to do, when you are out of problems, wait till you die, because that is not the issue. The meaning of change your life, is to change what is inside first. So here are a few ideas to get you started:
Organize Your Life Lesson 1. Define what you want in six months
This is as easy as I can put it. I won’t be talking about goals, or purpose, or the meaning of life. Just set this straight to yourself: what do I want to achieve or where do I want to be in six months? Write three things down in a piece of paper, and put it everywhere. You can put it on your mirror, your car, your fridge, your own, your PC.
Change Your Life: Manage Time
16 Jul 2009
Learn what are the three elements no one is talking about on time management, and discover the basic idea is to manage time.
To manage time, the main element in it is discipline. Remember, your time is… yours.Everyone has duties: kids, family, a demanding boss, home tasks, etc. The real reason why you are not doing what you want, it is not because there are so many tasks, but because you are not managing what you do, to make time for yourself. Let’s say, you need to clean the house and you want to read a book on Wayne Dryer. Why not you using audio self help (audiobooks) to read, while you are cleaning the floor? It is not that you need to put your full attention in a simple task. It is using your time wisely to change your life. Another example, you want to practice your golf swing’s, but you need to take care of your kids. Why not taking your kids with you, and teach them how to play? Or the most common example, “I want to have time for myself”. Then, you need to use the calendar and mark when are you going to have this time, and what you need to do before to make it happen.
Here are quick guidelines on the steps, tools and concepts nobody talks about, to help you manage your time.
Steps to Manage Time
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Change Your Life: Manage Stress
24 Jun 2009
Are you stressed out right now? To manage stress, here are a few guidelines.
Stress is your body’s way of responding to any kind of demand. It can be caused by both good and bad experiences. When people feel stressed by something going on around them, their bodies react by releasing chemicals into the blood. These chemicals give people more energy and strength, which can be a good thing if their stress is caused by physical danger. But this can also be a bad thing, if their stress is in response to something emotional and there is no outlet for this extra energy and strength. My point is, stress is not always bad, but when you feel you are not right, then, to change your life, this is what you need to do to manage stress:
- plan by visualizing expected events.
When you have unimportant event coming, which make you feel now there’s, a great way to release some of the stress you are feeling, like nervousness or fear, is to simply rehearse it. You can do it mentally or by acting. Run it through your mind over and over, the words you will say and the responses you may get. These will allow you to gain self-confidence, and assess self-help motivation mechanism.
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Change Your Life: Become Leader
24 Jun 2009
Leaders don’t have to be born. You can develop your leadership and become a leader using these guidelines.
When a previous article on “change your life, find friends“, I developed the idea that you need to emphasize your persuasion skills to interact better with people, and by doing this, you can be more social. Now, in this article, the focus is not so much making friends, but how to become the leader on that team or a group. The ideas I’m going to share, are based on the book “how to Win friends and influence people”, by Dale Carnegie.
Idea 4 to Become Leader: Leadership: Giving Criticism & Driving Improvement
- Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
To become a leader, you need to motivate people. Praising is a way to open the communication channel with others. It is easier to take criticism after some praise. For example, look for things done well before calling attention to failings. A leader is present not only in bad times, but rewards the good job.
- Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
One great way to talk to people, is to give own examples of your experiences, rather than criticize.Telling a story, instead of giving the recipe, is fantastic to let people grow by themselves, for example, you can tell the story of how and event change your life. Also, the burden of criticism is easier to bear when shared. So, share your experience, even bad ones, with people to make a connection.
Change Your Life: Find Friends
24 Jun 2009
A lot of people find barriers when trying to be more social. Here is a way to find new friends and become more sociable.
In his book “How to Win Friends and Influence People”, Dale Carnegie explains a study he conducted for many years, and reveal the ways to influence people and find friends. When you try to become more social, the key is developing your persuasion skills. People who are not persuasive, tend to follow the crowd, or become lonely. In this article, I will explain the ideas of Dale Carnegie and how you can use them today.
Idea 1: Building Personal Relationships to Find Friends
- Never criticize, condemn or complain.
Even though many people tend to criticize to have something to talk about, you will find more enemies by doing this. Remember that a person who applies self-criticism is extremely rare. Therefore, your criticism won’t be welcome. Also, criticism makes others defensive and resentful. So you need to change your life, by applying more positive reinforcement when you talk to someone, this means, saying good things about people.
- Become genuinely interested in other people.
Something we don’t want to add me, but it is true, it is that people are most interested in themselves. So a great tip to become interested in others, it is to remember people’s birthdays and other important details.
Change Your Life: Find Purpose
24 Jun 2009
Let me ask you a question, can you tell me your life’s purpose? If you can’t respond immediately, you don’t have it. Finding out what to do about it…
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.” Henry David Thoreau
The first question I asked, is not meant to hurt you. This to help you define yourself and find purpose. Henry David Thoreau was trying to say in his previous life changing quote, that you may go through life without knowing what was all about. If you think we are just born, grow, have a job, have kids and die, then, why are you living? Don’t you feel you would like to change your life?
Every living being has a purpose. For example, without bees, there will be no pollination. So what? Okay, this is what will happen in the words of an expert:
“If all the bees in the world were kill over tomorrow, a situation that doesn’t look entirely unlikely at this stage, it would take nature far longer to recover than our agriculture would demand. New technologies for artificial pollination would need to be introduced while the bees were pensioned off. Food shortages would immediately become an issue, as the available artificial technologies are nowhere near as efficent as the bees. There is no doubt that the industry would continue to function, albeit using a slower model of production. This would result in the hiking of prices for basics like fruit and veg, including anything that might be higher up the food chain.”
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Change Your Life: How To Live Happy
24 Jun 2009
Are you happy? Most people will say no. Find out how to live happier without having to win the lottery.
Happiness is an ambiguous concept. From the Greek philosophers and in every world culture, people have tried to determine how to be happy. In this article, I don’t want to do the same as everyone, they giving you common sense tips. What I will like to try is to help you uncover your own way to be happier and change your life.
We have to start with what you think these happiness. Is it to have a smile on your face every day at every hour? Is it to have the perfect life? And what is the perfect life? To be realistic, I think happiness has been defined by the media. We see beautiful, rich and extroverted people in TV and movies, who seemed to show us what is happiness about and how to live happy. However, you have to understand that this is not real. They are just actors playing a role. Offstage, they may be more miserable than an African child with nothing to eat.
Most interesting, is to find out what happy people do. According to studies, Denmark is the happiest country in the world. BusinessWeek says this:
- Denmark
- Population: 5.5 million
- Life Expectancy: 77.8 years
- GDP Per Capita: $34,600
Change Your Diet, Change Your Life
24 Jun 2009
By changing the way you eat, you can dramatically change your life. Find out the reasons why you need to start a diet today…
In this article, I won’t be talking about diets. There are a lot of diets, that you can define on the web or books. I think most important, is the reason why to do a diet. Most people just start a diet they read about, but drop out after a few weeks. So it is more important to mentalize yourself, before starting anything.
If you visualize your goal first, it is easier to achieve it, then just doing things without a purpose. So, why is it important to change your life and start a diet?
Data from thethe U.S. Census Bureau’s Statistical Abstract of the United States shows that Americans are the fattest people of the planet. But in the short term, maybe being obese is not a big deal. Sure, socially it is difficult to be fat person at school or work. People tend to make jokes about them, or to act different to them. However, the big concerns are on the long term. It can change your life dramatically.
A study by Dutch researchers appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It looked at data collected from 3,457 adults age 28 to 62 in Framingham, Massachusetts, between 1948 and 1990. The results show that, if you are obese by the time you are 40 years old, you will live less.
Change Your Body, Change Your Life
22 Jun 2009
By changing the way you look, you can change your life. Here are several tips that can help you achieve a change…
First of all, I’m not the fashion guru. In this article, I’m not trying to show you how to dress up on how to make an extreme makeover. There are some youtube is that you can watch to do that, which I’ll talk about them later. But for now, let’s clear the concept of changing your body.
It is not about surgical procedure, or a TV extreme makeover. Your body is a reflection what you think about yourself. For example, professional people always dress very professional. They use a amazing suits, and combine all their clothes really nice. They take care of having shiny shoes, and proper haircut, etc.
It is necessary for them, because they have too show and image to their clients. That is, an image of success and had been day DM of knowing what they want in life. This is social psychology. You may disagree me (I actually thought different 10 years ago), but you have to realize you are not alone in this world, you leaving a community, and you are part of it. It is not about what people think of you, and letting it affect you. It is about showing what you desire to be or what you want to show to the world about yourself. For example, that’s why many rock stars dress so cool. They are always ahead of fashion, because they represent fashion. They represent a lifestyle of excesses, by over dressing themselves. Can you imagine a rock star dress with the big white T-shirt and a pair of old jeans? Maybe in the 80’s, but now, it is unthinkable.
Change Your Habits, Change Your Life
22 Jun 2009
Habits are the source of getting what you want. You do or you don’t…
In a previous post, we talked about how like changing your thoughts, you can change your life. This is one of the greatest tools you can develop to change your life. However, thinking he’s a previous state of acting. And acting, is what get you to a place you want to be, to achieve your goals.
Let me tell you, most people… don’t act. They simply have the habit of doing the same things, over and over, and they ask themselves why aren’t they not getting what they want. Look in this example how what looks to be the same habit, can actually change the result of two people. Think about two runners, working to win the next year’s marathon. One of the runners decided to run 2 miles every day. The other runner decided to add 1 mile every week, and start running 1 mile every day. By the end of the year, the first one will be able to run without difficulty the first 2 miles in the marathon. However, maybe after 5 miles, he will start to feel tired. Now look at the second runner. He decided to run an extra mile every week. It wasn’t very hard. If you train every day 1 mile, surely you will be able to run an extra mile the next week. So at by the end of the year, if he was a constant and persistant, he was able to run 52 miles. Let’s say he got only half of that, so he was able to run 26 miles. Even with half of the effort, surely, he will be able to win the first runner, who only ran 2 miles every day.
Change Your Friends, Change Your Life
22 Jun 2009
Can friends hold you down when you are trying to change your life? How can you stop it?…
Do you still talk to your old friends from school? If you do, you’re lucky. However, most of us leave a lot of friends in the past. This is not something to feel bad about, it is natural because you don’t have any more that connection (school) with your friends. Therefore, it is harder to have something to talk about, I’m both start to lose interest.
This can also happen when you are trying to change your life. When I started my self process of changing, I started to realize how rude and negative were all of my friends, I had to find a way to develop my own self help motivation, because I couldn’t count on them. For example, on time we went to a concert, they kept critisizing everyone on the street, on the concert, on the restaurant, etc… I didn’t want to keep going that, because when you criticize somebody else, you are actually showing what you really are. Yes, it is funny sometimes! But you are laughing about the person, not about the situation. Anyway, I started to become more distant from my friends, because at the end, they didn’t help me change.
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
22 Jun 2009
Read how by changing your thoughts, you can change the way your life is going right now…
What do you think is the most powerful tool you have in your life? Is it your hands? Maybe it’s your intelligence? I believe the most important tool you have is your thoughts. The way we think is the way we act, and the way we act is what determine our path in life. There are also elements, like our culture or our legacy that influence as external sources of change. However, the way you talk to yourself through your thoughts, will be the powerful influence that will affect your choices, because a situation can be looked as a menace or an opportunity.
In his book “Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life. Living The Wisdom of the Dao¨, Dr. Wayne Dryer talks about this topic. Even though he doesn’t talk exactly how to change your thoughts, it is a very profound book that explains the Dao Teh Ching, one of the oldest books of Taoism, were in its 81 verses, describes the taoist phylosophy.
In this article, I will try to explain how to change your thoughts.
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Audio Self Help
22 Jun 2009
Looking for audio self-help? Can it really help you?
Audio self-help CDs or MP3 are great source of self-development. Depending on your learning style, which are kinestetic, visual or auditive, you will learn better. To find out what kind of learning style you can rely the most, think about your experiences at school: what did you enjoy and learn the most? When you watch a movie in your class? When you were listening to the teacher? Or when you were playing a game?
Audio self-help is great for people with auditive learning style. Personally, I fall asleep very fast when I’m reading a book. I love learning, but there is something in reading that doesn’t work for me. A few years ago, I found out a great way to read books without visually watching them. They are audio books. Someone is reading or talking to you, while you do something else. It’s like listening to music, that you are learning from it.
There’s also a great advantage on listening audio self-help books, self help tapes or self help hypnosis. You can go back and relisten the material. You are with a teacher, then he is explaining the concept, you can’t stop him or her, and ask to go back and repeat exactly what he or she said. The answer may be shorter, or maybe there will be no answer. So, when you read on audio book, you don’t have to ask the person to go back, you just rewind.
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Help for Depression
19 Jun 2009
Need help for depression? Here are some guidelines that can help you deal with depression…
I found a great article about the relation between support, control, and the social patterns of depression. Most people ask for help for depression, thinking they can do it all by themselves. However, support from others is necessary to stop feeling depressed. This is what the research found out:
“Research on the social patterns of depression in the community finds consistently that high levels of education and income, being male, and being married are associated with lower levels of depression. We attempt to explain these patterns as the result of two essential social perceptions: the sense of controlling one’s own life rather than being at the mercy of powerful others and outside forces, and the sense of having a supportive and understanding person to talk to in times of trouble.
In theory, the sense of control reduces depression because it encourages active problem solving, and the sense of support reduces depression because it provides others to talk to. We find evidence for the first proposition: persons who feel in control of their lives are more likely to attempt to solve problems.
Perceived control and problem solving decrease depression and largely explain the effects of income and education on depression. We find, however, that support has mixed effects.
Support decreases depression, but talking to others when faced with a problem, which increases with the level of support, increases depression.
Self Help for Depression
19 Jun 2009
Looking for self-help for depression? Here is a list of treatments available.
In the last post, on depression self-help, we discussed that before you take any self-help treatment, it is necessary to diagnose correctly the problem. We show you the symptoms, types of depression, and a medical online test to check if you have depression. Now, we will talk about the possible self-help treatments.
Basically, there are three types of self help for depression treatments:
- Supportive Treatment
This self help for depression treatment means, that to overcome depression, it is important to have the support of another person. The sense of loneliness increase the chance to stay depressed. It is okay to ask help for depression, but it is necessary to ask to the right person. The most important persons in your life are your family, your friends, and your mentors. You should ask for help in that order.
First, try to talk to your family about how you feel and that you need their support. Of course you’ll worry them at first, but it is necessary to let them know how you really feel on the inside. Once that awkward moment passes, you’ll feel you drop our rock from your back, and you have people that are carrying you.
Depression Self Help
19 Jun 2009
Depression self help guidelines. Check the symptoms, types and self help treatments.
Over the past year, 16.5 million Americans age 18 or older — 1 in 13 adults — experienced at least one bout of major depression, according to a new government survey in 2009. Whatever the reason, forgoing care is never a good idea, one expert said. “Depression is a medical condition that should be treated with the same urgency as any other medical condition”.
With this article, you’ll be able to establish your level of depression, so you decide if you want to treat it with a depression self help treatment or you need to go to your clinical doctor.
Symptoms of Depression
Not everyone who is depressed or manic experiences every symptom. The severity of symptoms varies among individuals and also over time. Here are the most common symptoms of depression:
- Persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood.
- Feelings of hopelessness or pessimism.
- Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, or helplessness.
- Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyable, including sex.
- Decreased energy, fatigue; feeling “slowed down.”
- Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions.
- Trouble sleeping, early morning awakening, or oversleeping.
- Changes in appetite and/or weight.
- Thoughts of death or suicide, or suicide attempts.
- Restlessness or irritability.
- Persistent physical symptoms, such as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain that do not respond to routine treatment
Types of Depression
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Law of Attraction Book
19 Jun 2009
Which is the best law of attraction book? Find out what you need to look for in a book…
The law of attraction became a phenomenon after the book ¨ The Secret¨. I even didn’t know about that concept before The Secret. However, once I read the book and watch the laws of attraction movie, I felt almost betrayed. The book was full of generalizations and concepts I already knew about. They simply used the celebrity of many bestseller authors to build a comercial success.
Maybe for other people, it was an eye opening book. I’m just given my opinion, based on my experiences and knowledge. So really, to find the best Law of attraction book for you, we need to create a criteria on how to pick it.
The first criteria is your level of knowledge on self development topics. If you don’t know anything about it, it’s okay. The best you can dois find the most commercial law of atraction book and best seller to start with. Below is released of books available at Amazon, which are very popular:
Now, if you feel you walk the talk, then it’s better to find specialized books. For example, you can take the Course in Miracles, which is a great book on the spiritual path, which includes a lesson for each day and how to become a better you.
Law of Attraction Movie
19 Jun 2009
Which is the best law of attraction movie? Is The Secret the only movie?
For all the people that do not know the concept of Law of attraction, it means people’s thoughts (both conscious and unconscious) dictate the reality of their lives, whether or not they’re aware of it. Essentially “if you really want something and truly believe it’s possible, you’ll get it”, but putting a lot of attention and thought onto something you don’t want means you’ll probably get that too.
Personally, I found out about the laws of attraction about three years ago. At first, it seems very unrealistic to think your thoughts were the cause of your reality. However, if you research the most successful people, you will find out law of attraction may be true. Now, plenty of people think that it’s easy for successful people to be positive and think thoughts of success, because they are successful. But the reason successful people are successful is because they carry thoughts of success.
I recently read part of an interesting interview with movie actor Jim Carrey. The article reported that he said the following:
When I wasn’t doing anything in this town, I’d go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch out my arms and say , “Everybody wants to work with me. I’m a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers.” I’d just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple of movies lined up. I’d drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, “Movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet.”
Life Changing Quotes
19 Jun 2009
Here are some life-changing quotes that will help you deal with your every day life in a better way.
One off the elements to change your life is to stay motivated. All around us, there are factors that can affect you positive or negatively. Event inside you, your thoughts are so powerful that an event that happened long time ago, can still hurt you now. That is the reason why you need to use life-changing quotes as a motivational tool.
Before we start the least of some life-changing quotes you can use, it is important to let you know how to use them. Just because you read them once doesn’t mean that they will have a significance. I believe it is a lie to say that one life-changing quote will turn 360° your life. The most important aspect in use in this, is when, who and how.
In trying to a response to a question when, you need to read life-changing quotes at least two times a day, in the morning and at night when you go to sleep. What I personally do is instead of printing them, I write them down on a notepad that I always carry. I feel it carries more significance when you write them down with your own handwriting, and change them when you feel they are not working for you. For example, I had a life-changing quotes I personally wrote. First, I wrote something like ¨ I had been taking the wrong decisions, from now on, I will not”. After two weeks, I felt I was judging myself too hard, and you can’t change the decisions you take. It is even better to take decision, than to not even try it. So I changed the life changing quote to ¨ I had been in the wrong state of mind, from now on, I change my thought patterns and behavior so I can change my results¨.
Natural Cures For Depression
19 Jun 2009
Do you know there are certain foods that can help you cure your depression? Find out which natural cures for depression are…
In a previous article about natural remedies with deppression, I talked about how to heal your current state, but alternative methods such as self-help motivation, exercise, yoga, herbal medications, etc. In this article you’ll find out some of the foods you can eat, during a period of time, that will act as natural cures for depression.
For example, studies have shown that the more fish a country eats the lower is their incidence of depression. There’s a type of omega 3 fat called EPA which seems to be the most potent natural anti-depressant. In a study conduct the one Harvard Medical School, there have been six double-blind placebo controlled trials to date, five of which show significant improvement. The first trial by Dr Andrew Stoll, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, gave 40 depressed patients either omega 3 supplements versus placebo and found a highly significant improvement.
Beside fish, here is a list a food that will act as natural cures for depression:
1) Oatmeal
Oatmeal may help if you find yourself feeling irritable and cranky. It is rich in soluble fiber, which helps to smooth out blood sugar levels by slowing the absorption of sugar into the blood.
Oatmeal is also a great food to help you stick with your diet plan, because the soluble fiber in oatmeal forms a gel that slows the emptying of your stomach so you don’t feel hungry quickly.
Natural Remedies for Depression
17 Jun 2009
Are you looking to cure your depression without getting yourself knocked out with pills? Here are some alternative natural remedies for depression.
It is amazing how many people use alternative medicine to heal themselves. Almost one of every three Americans use complementary or alternative medicines each year. Some of the natural remedies for depression you can use are:
- relaxation techniques
- self-help groups
- self-help hypnosis
- massage
- exercise
- yoga
- aromatherapy
- home remedies
- spiritual healing
- laughter
- herbal medication
Here are some of the natural remedies for depression most effective to help you right now:
1) St. John’s Wort
The herb St. John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) has long been used in folk medicine for sadness, worry, nervousness, and poor sleep. It is considered one of the best natural remedies for depression.
Today, the results of over 20 clinical trials suggest that St. John’s wort works better than a placebo and is as effective as antidepressants for mild to moderate depression, with fewer side effects.
Studies suggest that St. John’s wort is not effective for major depression.
It’s available at health food stores, drug stores, and online in the form of capsules, tablets, liquid extracts, or tea.
2) Omega-3 fatty acids
Omega-3 fatty acids are a type of good fat needed for normal brain function. Our bodies can’t make omega-3s on their own, so we must obtain them through our diet.
Self Help DVD
17 Jun 2009
Is the only self-help DVD The Secret? What other choices do we have?
About three years ago I watch The Secret, also called laws of attraction movie. It was about using the laws of nature to create your own reality. The film was available on the Internet and was able to purchase on DVD. I ordered these self-help DVD, and realized the following: it only showed me the top of the iceberg. The way they presented all the material was so general, I asked myself if this was for real.
So, I started to search for more self-help DVDs, and I got to the conclusion that you have to be specific on what you are looking for. For example, there is a great self-help DVD from Brian Tracy called “Time Management”. The DVD is only one hour long, and it shows you the best techniques to manage your time and get things done. There are also the shows of Dr. Wayne Dwyer on PBC, but I haven´t found them on DVD.
On the matter of productivity, there are a lot of DVDs, however, I haven’t found a self-help DVD that really helps people to change their lives. You can find a lot of self help tapes or CDs, but not a single DVD! You can even find self help hypnosis!
Self Help Hypnosis
17 Jun 2009
Is self-help hypnosis for real or is it a lie?
Most of us think about hypnotism and something mysterious and only for entertainment. We have seen it on TV, where some magician hypnotize a person in the audience and make them do funny movements. In reality, if not his is use a semantical tool, useful in a clinical environment and psychotherapy treatments, and with people trying to use it as a self-help hypnosis tool.
It announces alters your state of conscious, making you feel relaxed and creating a sense of peacefulness. This allows the subconscious mind to be suggested to change a behavior. It is as if you have opened a door inside you and you were able to leave a message.
For example, in self-help hypnosis, your body and mind are very suggestible. In a clinical example, it has been used for light anesthesia during surgery, and as a self-help treatment, for pain reduction. It can also be used to plan suggestions to change your life.
Many theories explaining the work process of hypnosis and still there are new studies for this matter. Hypnosis appears to be a form of dissociation, which is a condition in which parts of memory get split off from other parts, is the active ingredient responsible for creating some forms of amnesia, and, in severe cases, multiple personality disorder. The dissociation involved in hypnosis is far lighter and milder in nature than in these other disorders.
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Self Help Tapes
17 Jun 2009
Are you looking for self-help tapes to deal with your depression or personal problems?
Self-help tapes are great for people who likes to listen as their learning style. According to studies, people might get a different learning a rate according to their preference learning style. So, as an example, if you think you can learn better when people talk to you, self-help tapes are the best choice.
When you are looking for self-help tapes, there may be three choices for you:
1. Hypnosis tapes: what you want to do with this tapes his listen to them at night, and they will act on you while you are sleeping. Studies are inconclusive in the effectiveness of hypnosis tapes, however results have been found to date to help on a subconscious level of the mind. They are great for problems like smoking, overweight, and self-esteem. You can even create this type of self-help tapes using a script and music such as classical. If you search on google, for self-made hypnosis, you can find how to do it.
2. Self-help tapes for a specific problem: if you have found a specific issue in your life he won a handle, you can find a treatment in tapes. The most usual product you will find our self-help tapes for depression. In these type of tapes, you will learn how to diagnose your problem, and develop a self-help treatment for it. It may be a good choice if you have a minor problem, but if you are dealing with a deep problem, such as the death of someone you love, you may want to try these other choice.
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Self Esteem Help
17 Jun 2009
Learn how to boost your self-esteem, with this self-esteem help tips to understand how to do it.
It is incredible how something that you can’t touch and is actually inside of you, can affect you so much. Self-esteem is one of the pillars for loving yourself, and to find happiness. But there are so many things going on around us, that self-esteem is always in jeopardy. For example, according to a study from a Dove campaign, “Girls who watch TV commercials featuring underweight models lose self-confidence and become more dissatisfied with their own bodies”.
Other studies state the following:
- Only 1 of 2 seventh graders say they like the way they look.
- 9 of 10 girls want to change their physical appearance.
- “Children with very low self-esteem, or what the researchers called
self-derogation, were 1.6 times more likely to meet the criteria for drug dependence nine years later than other children.”
So, in conclusion, self-esteem is a big deal. In this article we will not learn what is actually self-esteem and how to work with it.
What Is Self-Esteem?
To understand self-esteem, it helps to break the term into two words. Let’s take a look at the word esteem (say: ess-teem) first. Esteem is a fancy word for thinking that someone or something is important or valuing that person or thing. For example, if you really admire someone, it means you hold him in high esteem. And self means, well, yourself! So put the two words together and it’s easier to see what self-esteem is. It’s how much you value yourself and how important you think you are. It’s how you see yourself and how you feel about your achievements.
Wayne Dryer
2 Jun 2009
The second part of the teachings of Dr Wayne Dryer and how he save my life, and can change your life.
Ok, so we were talking about how to follow you dreams, even when everybody “thinks” you’re wrong. If you just got in, go to the first part of the Wayne Dwyer story here.
Wayne Dryer talks about this in his book “Wisdom of The Ages”. Each chapter summarizes the philosophy of a different inspirational/religious leaders. One of the characteristics he found out on this people was this: they don’t listen to the good opinion of people.
So, how do you develop this ability of been yourself? How do you change your life in this aspect? Here are 3 basics:
a. Learn to accept yourself for who you are and what you look like. Take a good look at yourself in the mirror and say this aloud: “I love myself, accept myself and those who judge my exterior will find it harder to know my interior”.
b. Don’t isolate yourself. For example, when you get the opportunity to make a friend, don’t just blow them off because “you’re a rebel and you don’t care what they think”.
c. Worrying solves nothing – if it’s that big a deal, make a plan overcoming depression and fix whatever it is that is bugging you.
4. Find your purpose.
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Wayne Dwyer
2 Jun 2009
Who is Dr. Wayne Dwyer and what did he taught me about changing your life?
A mystical moment ocurred to my brother and me on May 2006 thanks to Dr Wayne Dwyer. Besides been far away from each other, as brothers we were also too far away. I just didn’t care about him. That’s when it happened. I received a call from my mother, telling me he was in a hospital. A car accident happened, and he was alone, with no one to count on. We took the first flight we found that same day, and went directly to see how he was. Luckily, he wasn’t too injured as we thought. That night, I stayed with him. I didn’t know what to say to him, so we just watch tv. That night, a show caught my attention. A bold and old man was talking about how to get what you want in life. Later I learned his name. It was Dr Wayne Dwyer.
His teachings change my life and my brother’s too. We started to talk about all the things that we have never talk about, about life, about what we were doing about it. My mom even got angry, cause we didn’t slept that night. A transformation between our relation as brothers and inside each other, or inner self, had changed. We want to share some of the thoughts we learn by Wayne Dwyer, and hopefully, you can change your life too.
Self Help for Depression
1 Jun 2009
Can you make it on your own? Is self help for depression possible, without asking for help? Read this story to find out…
I found a story about a young boy who committed suicide because all the bulling he was dealing with in his school. His name was Jared Benjamin High, you can read the whole story here. The point is, Jared wasn’t able to find out how to overcome his depression. He didn’t ask for help. Maybe, he just didn’t know he could.
I want you to know this: it is ok to ask for help. You can do it on your own, but you need someone to show you how. Looking for self help for depression is not a lonely road. Here are some of the lessons I learn by myself, I want to share with you, so you don’t get to become another Jared.
1. Ask for help to people who love you
Very common, we ask for help for depression on the wrong place. For example, asking a “buddy” for advice, when he or she actually doesn’t care. You need to think about the people who really love you, cares for you. There is always someone to count on, but be sure to pick the right person. And when you ask for help, tell the truth. Don’t try to hide the facts or your true feelings, get them out, let the other person know how you feel. Share your feelings, even when they are negative.
Self Help Motivation
31 May 2009
Self Help Motivation. Can You Motivate Yourself, or You Need Someone? Learn What Scientists Said…
I was reading an article on Psychology Online. It showed an study between differences of internal and external motivation. So you can understand what this terms are, internal motivation means simply “self help motivation“, ways you motivate yourself. On the contrary, external motivation means someone else is trying to motivate you, or something (like money, for example). The report conclusions were the following:
“Although our society is largely extrinsically-motivated by external rewards such as money, fameand power, research has indicated those who are intrinsically-motivated by inner desires for creativity, fulfillment and inner satisfaction are psychologically healthier and happier.”
This is just a recent study. Older studies from real scientists (people who actually make some research, who don’t say everything that comes to their mind… like “gurus”) were focused on the same deal, and had the same results. For more info, read about the theories of motivation here.
Conclusion: the most important motivation… comes from yourself! People can give you money, cars, or diamonds, but what actually keeps you going is your selfmotivation.
So how do you motivate yourself, without all those material things? Danny Cox, author of the book “Seize the Day”, explains the self help motivation guidelines to achieving a great day and staying happier than ever.
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Overcoming depression
29 May 2009
Can depression kill you? How can you overcome depression in the right moment?
I was reading one of the chicken soup for the soul stories, about overcoming depression. There is a story about depression and suicide, in which a mother starts researching why her daughter Arlyn killed herself. She then understood that it was an escape from emotional pain. She explained it like this: “it was as though her heart was carrying a heavy weight, and it became unbearable”. By suiciding, she was looking for help for depression.
I don´t remember where I hear this, but I think it is a very profound phrase, we can use to understand why is depression caused and how to overcome depression. “Things happen”. You may be saying, “Ok, where is this going?” Things happen in life all the time. Sometimes, what we call good things, and sometimes bad things. However, as humans we have the tendency to overreact to bad things, and to forget about the good ones. For example, when was the last time you realized you are lucky to be healthy? Think about all the people dying in a hospital because of a terrible disease like cancer or aids, and thinking “I would give anything to be ok again”. Or even how lucky we are to have food in our table. If you are using Internet, most probable you have at least one meal a day.
Change Your Life
27 May 2009
The big question from all people I know is: “How can you change your life?”
Most guys and so called “gurus” will give you “their” answers, on how to change your life. About 5 years ago, I had an car accident that did change my life. I was working as a kindergarten teacher in Houston, and didn´t appreciate all the things that I had back then. I was surrounded by the love of my children and was doing very well economically. I was living independently and had my whole life ahead of me.
However, one day after exiting the gym (which I will make no publicity to…) a car went directly to me and hit me, a tree and a post. The driver was going to park the car and accidentally left his foot on the accelerator. Like a miracle, the post and the tree did help me take less of a hit, but the mark left in my life was overwhelming. I needed that kind of event to change my life and actually realizing the truth: we are lucky to be alive, and each day gives us a new opportunity to change and become better persons.
It may sound corny, but it is actually true. Most people never appreciate what they have, been material things or the love of a partner, friends or family. Another secret does “gurus” don´t want to tell you is this: it is not your fault you can´t change. According to some behavioral studies, it is proved that change faces resistance all the time, and when it is not made fast and the new state is “frozen”, chances are we´ll return to the previous state (which most of the time is unhappiness or dissatisfaction).
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