Why Depression...?...Where Depression...??
Saying "Why depression".? has not any concern for
illness of body, or due to lack of compassion, but because this is the nature of
what is happening to some who is depressed. If anyone is causing depression to himself, it
means he is able to generate a substantial amount of intense emotions
and thoughts, but in the wrong direction. If he doesn’t have very strong
emotions or very intense thoughts about something, he cannot get
depressed. It is just that he is generating thoughts and emotions that
work against his own self. So his wrong thoughts and emotions are responsible for the situation, not he is. In fact he is strong enough to find out causes
of depression to himself.
Most of the depressions are self-created. A few people are
pathologically ill, they cannot help it. It just comes from within
because of genetic and other factors. But almost everybody else can be
driven to madness, because the line between sanity and insanity is quite
thin. People keep pushing it. If any one gets angry, he is pushing the line. In fact, he knows that he is pushing the line and that's why there is expression, "I was mad at somebody or somthing etc etc." As a matter of fact, he is not mad at all at somebody or something, he is just going to be mad. He cannot be mad "at somebody or something". He is just pushing the boundaries of sanity and moving into insanity for a certain period of time and coming back.
 Everyone has incentives in his life to become ill. Right from the childhood, he gets the maximum attention only when he falls ill. When he is happy, people scream at him. When he squealed in joy, they scream back to him. But when he goes down, then people around him starts saying "boo-boo........boo-boo...." During childhood, physical illness is good because a child gets attention from his mother, father, every body around him. He is allowed to remain at homd and not going to school.......and he learns very well the art of falling physically ill. But once he gets married, he learns the art of getting mentally ill. If a married person wants to get attetion....he simply sits in a corner....act depressed. And people will pay attention to him. So he keeps playing this game again and again and one day he is not able to cross the line back. That day .....he is clinically ill. Set Incentives for Health, not Sickness Even in the case of infections too, if anyone keeps himself in a certain preparred condition......, physically and mentally, the virus and the bacteria will not work the same way as it works upon somebody else. It is possible, if he sets himself up in such a way committed .... that "no matter what’s happening, anyway I have to go do my work without a break."
It doesn’t matter what’s happening, what you have to do, you
anyway have to do. You can’t turn back on that. If this happens, you
will see that you will not at all fall sick physically and mentally both very often. For every
change in weather, if you have the comfort of covering yourself in a
blanket and lying down, once you create that, your body will learn to
fall sick as often as possible. If you just keep it this way – "it
doesn’t matter what it is, anyway I have to go and do what I have to do" –
you will see your body and mindset will just bounce back as quickly as possible.
So what is required is to set the necessary conditions, necessary incentives for physican and mental health. Never never set incentives for sickness of any type.
If a child is sick, observe him from a distance, never go cuddling. He
knows that’s the worst time of his life, but he will also know that he
has to get well soon. Instead, give him the best attention when he is
joyful. You will see he will naturally learn from within, his very
chemistry will learn that it pays to be joyful; it doesn’t pay to be
sick. If you make this clear to your own biological, mental and chemical process, then you will find any depression....
 So set that upto you, for yourself and you will get healthy. If you turn your mind this way, you can also turn your mind that way. “No, no I’m like this because my father abused me when I was 7 years of age,” if you know all that bullshit, you can as well turn yourself around, isn’t it? It’s time. You must understand. Mentally, physiologically, chemically, energy-wise, you must clearly understand, it doesn’t pay to be sick, unhappy or depressed – it just doesn’t pay. To be joyful and ecstatic, it pays. If you make this clear inside youself, then......where is depression ...? And why depression ....???
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