Your definition of depression is accurate as far as it goes but it is misses the source of it. I say depression is living a life of unmet expectations. You can change your expectations. Ultimately, it is your stinking thinking you've bought as truth and reality. Nonsense. Feelings follow thinking, are sourced by the thoughts you hold to all day long. "Your thinking is a variable guide to reality, but your feelings are a foolproof guide to the quality of your current thinking." - Michael Neill
If you cannot change your mind, change your thinking, what is thinking you then?
I mostly agree with this, but our thoughts and emotions are downstream of unconscious processes. I mean, they just emerge like emotions do, but the color of our thoughts is highly correlated with our emotional states.
I do agree that it is typically a form of unmet expectations. I should have emphasized this. Emotional states are not completely downstream of the left brain’s interpretations though. Someone’s diet or lack of exercise can also be the source of the problem, which no amount of better thinking will solve.
It’s more so a call toward self overcoming of some kind, rather that be developing a better perspective of the world, or working to improve your conditions.
It’s not just how you think, it’s absolutely a combination of how you think and live. A beautiful flower grows from a nutrient soil in my view.
Your definition of depression is accurate as far as it goes but it is misses the source of it. I say depression is living a life of unmet expectations. You can change your expectations. Ultimately, it is your stinking thinking you've bought as truth and reality. Nonsense. Feelings follow thinking, are sourced by the thoughts you hold to all day long. "Your thinking is a variable guide to reality, but your feelings are a foolproof guide to the quality of your current thinking." - Michael Neill
If you cannot change your mind, change your thinking, what is thinking you then?
I mostly agree with this, but our thoughts and emotions are downstream of unconscious processes. I mean, they just emerge like emotions do, but the color of our thoughts is highly correlated with our emotional states.
I do agree that it is typically a form of unmet expectations. I should have emphasized this. Emotional states are not completely downstream of the left brain’s interpretations though. Someone’s diet or lack of exercise can also be the source of the problem, which no amount of better thinking will solve.
It’s more so a call toward self overcoming of some kind, rather that be developing a better perspective of the world, or working to improve your conditions.
It’s not just how you think, it’s absolutely a combination of how you think and live. A beautiful flower grows from a nutrient soil in my view.