Dealing with Depression: Navigating Your Way out of the Darkness with NLP

Merely thinking positively is not enough. Pulling up your socks doesn’t help much either. Positive affirmations like, “I am a valuable and worthy person” can be hard to stick with, when you don’t actually believe it deep down inside.

What you really need is something far more practical and easy to do to find the light at the end of the tunnel.

This is a different, kinda sideways method for retraining the mind and offers a direct way to change emotional states. Nitty gritty stuff that makes a real difference to your mood.

You learn practical ways to deal with your immediate feelings, as well as help with working on some of the issues and thoughts creating these feelings. Stuff like negative self-talk and being overly critical about yourself. Anxiety also commonly occurs with depression and there are strategies to help ease that too.

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Depression Buster Program ~ $600 (Normally $720)

Program includes 6 x 1 hour sessions. Format: one-to-one.

You’ll learn how to:
•  Lift your Mood
•  Break the Negative Self-talk cycle
•  Quieten your Inner Critic
•  Redirect your mind to more Positive Thoughts
•  Create and use Anchors to access Feel-good Emotions
•  Shift feelings of hopelessness and being trapped

Sound like just what you need?
Give me a call on 0412 477 547 to get started.

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Where I’m coming from…

Personally, I find it more helpful (and liberating) to think of depression as a process, a series of thought patterns and unhelpful behaviours that create and then recreate more depression. In this context, our thoughts can be turned into tools for scrambling the depressive pattern and to inject some much needed internal sunshine.

In psychology and medicine, the current thinking on depression is that it’s a chemical imbalance and so treatments often centre around medicating with an anti-depressant. Curiously, pharmaceutical trials on depression often show the difference between people taking a placebo and antidepressants is not that great — with the placebo effect thought to contribute around 75% of improvements in mood. In other words, the placebo effect is your brain doing the good work on its own!

Our thoughts are electrical events (neurons firing in the brain) which release chemicals and there’s a lot of good scientific evidence to suggest that negative and positive thoughts generate different chemicals.

Certain feel-good thoughts are natural antidepressants and I like this because that places the power within us. What this means for you is by changing the way you think, you can change the chemicals being released. And when the power lies within us, it’s always on tap. I teach you how to turn on the tap.

REFERENCES:
Kirsch, I., & Sapirstein, G. (1998). Listening to Prozac but hearing placebo: A meta-analysis of antidepressant medication. Prevention & Treatment, Vol 1(2), ArtID 2a.
Lichtenberg, P., U Heresco-Levy, U. & Nitzan, U. (2004). The ethics of the placebo in clinical practice. Journal of Medical Ethics, 30:551–554.