Carol Tuttle is author of "Remembering Wholeness, A Personal Handbook for Thriving in the 21st Century". She is also a Certified Master Level Rapid Eye Therapist in private practice. RET is similar to EMDR, but with an emphasis on the person as a spiritual being. Carol offers the following tips to help lift and eliminate your depression.
1. Stop Your Negative Thoughts
If you have a problem stopping obsessive thinking, get an eye patch and patch your right eye. Patching your right eye will shut down the left hemisphere of your brain and the negative, obsessive thinking. It is better than a glass of wine.
2. Zip Up Your Central Meridian
Your central meridian is the energy pathway that runs from your pubic bone to your bottom lip. It can act like a radio receiver if it is not zipped up, picking up negative energies and vibes of others around you. Zip it up by imagining zipping up a zipper that runs up this pathway.
3. Go for a Walk Every Day
Walking will increase your endorphins, which lifts your mood. Walking also activates your energy flows to cross from left to right, right to left. A healthy crossover flow of energy lifts your mood 40-60%.
4. Refer to Your Depression in a Healthier Way
Refer to your depression as an experience that you are having that can be healed, rather than an identity you are stuck in. Your "I am's" define your identity and keep you stuck with more of what you don't want. A healthier way of referring to your experience of depression is to say: "I am experiencing the condition of depression, and it is healing."
5. Believe That You Can Get Well
Your belief creates your reality. If you doubt and fear, you may never get well. If you believe you can and will, you call it forth in your life. Consider the possibility that one of the higher purposes of your depression was to allow you the experience of healing it to graduate you into more of your true magnificence.
