How to read depressions positively?
Author: veepandi

The feedback on my article on ‘ANGER- A KEY TO SUCCESS ‘ elicited positive response. Anyone who had practiced it will welcome his anger as an opportunity to get better idea of his/her sensitivity domain interests.

Here a similar approach on depressions will reveal how to read depressions positively.

Human life consists of positive and negative swings in accordance with tao, a law of nature. Human mind tend to develop positive feelings like happiness over positive swing and negative feelings like sadness over negative swing.

On crossing limits set by the mind, negative feelings acquire the dimension of depression a gateway to suicide.

Depression over the development of an event is an indication of the failure of the mind of the person to match tao.

A positive swing is bound to reverse on reaching the limit. So too the negative swing.

If the individual stick to his/her center of life, which means sticking to living, the negative swing is bound to reverse after reaching the limit. But a depressive mind has the potential to drain the energy requires to stick to living and adding on to negative swing leading to termination of life, a suicide.

Fortunately the limit of transforming negative feeling to depression is set in the mind. Hence an individual who starts feeling depression is empowered to reexamine the limit in his mind. The only requirement is awareness of this mechanism.

A periodic positive and negative swing ensures center and stability of human life. A strong and stable center ensures positive and negative swings serving the center [life]. A weak center is always in danger of excessive positive and negative swings even on weak external disturbances.

When negative feeling cross the limit and become a depression, it is a clear indication of weakening center. On realizing this human mind will try to strengthen the center with available energy. Failure to realize this will lead to further weakening the center, draining its energy to strengthening the depression.

A life dominated by natural needs and interests will confer greater ability to strengthen the center and control the swings within reasonable limits.

A vibrant life requires both positive and negative swings and hence negative swings need not be despised. But a life dominated by induced needs and interests will force lesser ability to strengthen the center and fear negative swings. This kind of life is invitation for depression.

Hence a person who starts feeling depression must take it as a positive symptom to look for his/her area of induced needs and interests.

Remember you are your king to your natural interests and slave to your induced interests.

Once you realize this, you will acquire the skill of converting your depression into a positive examination to strengthen your center and stability of your vibrant life.







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Former Reader in Physics and founder of http://www.southindianmusic.net/. Music and social dynamics are fields of interest.comments are welcome to pann@vsnl.com

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