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Help For Your Depression - July 2008

Be conscious of the subconscious

July 1st 2008 03:01

Feelings come and they go. So do thoughts and emotions. This is something that we all fight with, those days when our thoughts are moving a mile a minute. There isn’t a remedy to stop these thoughts. They are constantly moving and flowing like water. The problem lies in trying to stop the thought process. Our minds are always moving, even when we sleep. There have been all kinds of research on what the brain is processing when we are sleeping. One conclusion that some psychologists have come to is the brain can’t understand what is going on when we are sleeping, so it just processes abstract information. That explains why our dreams are sometimes like a Stephen King movie.

The subconscious is a funny thing. It can only remember events as they first happened. In other words, when we think of something that occurred 20 years ago, it can still be as painful as if it just happened. The subconscious has no past, present, or future. Giving into all the events going on in our subconscious mind can easily feed the fire of anger, resentment, and fear that always leads into a depression. It is very easy to fall into that trap. We sometimes hear the phrase “Getting some closure” on something that was traumatic in our lives. That phrase can be misinterpreted. It can give the delusion that we will someday wake up and rise from our bed and never, ever be weighed down by those horrible memories again. What really happens over the course of time ( in my own personal experience) is an acceptance of what happened by coming to realize that the thoughts are always going to be there, but they don’t stay as long and they don’t have the weight they once had. There are things that pop up in my mind during the course of a day that I thought I had already dealt with, and it can make me laugh to think how I can still be steaming mad about something somebody said to me 25 years ago. That is the subconscious mind. It still thinks it is 25 years ago.

One way to try and deal with those painful thoughts is meditation. Meditation provides a way to meet those thoughts as they are. First by concentrating on your breathing, both the in breath and the out breath, our thoughts will flow as usual. The point is to keep going back to the breathing. Meditation wont make everything go away, but it will help you see how the thoughts come and go. It will help you see that those thoughts are just thoughts, and when you don’t put much weight on them and let them pass, you can move onto the next thought and let that pass too. The thoughts always pass. Just like the tide going in and out. Being aware is the key. We need to train our minds to get into shape to develop the strength to face the subconscious thoughts that rule our minds. Keep trying, and keep the faith.

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