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I find it helpful to spend time with people I am comfortable with and in whom I can confide. My Self Help programme includes doing pleasurable activities such as an early morning walk, going to a light hearted, romantic or comedy type movie. Movie emotions can be a personal thing. I started talking about my feelings with family and friends and learned to allow them to help. I gave myself permission to accept their feelings and offers to help me. I found a little self help often is great for my soul and the positive powers of my mind. Actually I am finding that building this Web Site is great therapy for me. I feel myself opening up a lot more. I find I am talking to people and expressing my feelings. I am not just talking about how I feel, I am becoming more involved in general conversation. Have a look at my I Use SBI page. to see how I built my Site. I made a point not to let myself get bogged down with a need to be involved in important decisions. When I felt tired I would have a rest. I started letting someone else carry the weight for awhile, I found they can actually do it for me, and sometimes they can actually do it better. Remember, the positive power of the mind; think good feelings and repel negative thoughts. I now use Meditation as part of my normal day. Meditation is wonderful for our sensors. Of all the meditation tools I found, nothing came close to the power of the Holosync programme from Centerpointe Click here to Learn more. Centerpointe's programme and total ongoing support is amazing. Also, walking is good for both men and women, it works on our feelings and on our body at the same time. It gets you out of your house and puts movement into your cardiovascular system. I also use walking as one of my 'social' self indulgences. I am now enjoying light aerobic exercise as well and I feel it improving my mood. I am told it actually helps by raising the levels of mood-enhancing chemicals in my brain. Aerobic exercise can also boost self-esteem by promoting weight loss and improved muscle tone. Yoga — which involves rhythmic stretching movements and controlled breathing — may also help relieve men's depressive symptoms by reducing their tension and anger. Keep feeding your lungs with good fresh oxygen and that will feed your emotions with pleasure and your brain with health oxygen filled blood. Self Help activities are fun things, they encourage me to smile and sometimes they even bring up a laugh from deep down. Ho Ho Ho Feel the power of laughter. I have learnt not hide my depression behind a mask. Now I get it out in front of myself a kick the what-ever out of it. Now that IS Self help! and if you feel like doing the same, laugh while you are doing it. Laugh as though you are crazy. Years ago, one of my daughters said to me, "Dad, the good old silent farts are known as SBDs". I looked at her and she smiled and said “Silent but Deadly”. To me Depression has the same effect. You don’t hear it coming but when it hits it stinks!
Depression is being spoken about more openly in the media. Home Now From Your Self Help Page. |
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