Treating Depression

Depression is can be overwhelming word. The prospect of treating depression without drugs feels incredible to many patients. But I have had repeated successes in treating depression without the use of any medication. I use Jin Shin Jyutsu and EFT. These are highly effective energy healing modalities based on Acupuncture principles (see my profile).
Antidepressant medication doesn’t work at all for two thirds of people and has many possible side effects. Antidepressants do not deal with healing the causes of depression, Energy Psychology (EFT) does.

To treat depression effectively you need to understand that:

• Depression is not ‘genetic’. People are not biologically predestined. It’s not caused by neurobiology (although it has neurobiological effects. Depressive attitudes (such as pessimism, perfectionism, black and white thinking, and helplessness) are learned rather than ‘passed on through genes’.

• Depression is a state of physical and mental exhaustion produced from too much negative non-solution-focused rumination, leading, in turn, to an excess of REM sleep which further exhausts the depressed person.

• The depressed person has become stuck and needs help to think, feel and act differently and to get the rest they need. This is what EFT and JSJ do.

Here are three essential steps to treating depression.

1. You need to begin to see your depression ‘from the outside’ as a pattern of experience, rather than part and parcel of ‘who you are’. By understanding the ‘cycle of depression’, you can see how a buildup of unresolved emotional worry overburdens the brain’s REM response, leading to night time over-dreaming, leading to day time physical and mental exhaustion.

• Do you always feel exhausted when you wake in the morning – and the more you sleep, the more tired you get?

• Does everything tend to seem very black and white, all or nothing, to you, with no shades of gray between?

• Do you feel physically exhausted one minute and then over-agitated the next?
One of the first signals of recovery you will experience as you start to come out of depression will be an increase in energy and a feeling of clarity and perspective.

2. It is essential to relax. A depressed brain is a stressed brain. The most wonderful analytical techniques in the world will have little effect on a brain worn out by stress, anxiety and exhaustion. In such a state, flooded with stress hormones, the brain struggles to take on new perspectives. It’s like trying to see your reflection in a lake when a storm is raging. Jin Shin Jyutsu is one of the most effective techniques for relaxing and normalizing the stress hormone levels and EFT ensures that you take on those new perspectives.


3. A depressed person may need to get back into the habit of actually taking steps to change unwanted situations rather than passively worrying about their problems but not acting to resolve them, The combination of Jin Shin Jyutsu and EFT insure that you are able to take positive steps again.
In cases where practical changes are not feasible, you need to feel differently about what cannot be changed – EFT is an excellent tool to help you feel and see things with a new perspective. You get unstuck on the deepest levels; you acquire wisdom and calmness, and start really enjoying life again. This in itself means that you will not get depressed again easily.
(Please refer to the steps in my previous posting).

Perizat Hamdy, B.SC.
Master Energy Healing Therapist
Emotional Freedom Techniques ADV (Meridian Tapping)
Jin Shin Jyutsu ADV (Acupuncture without needles)
Pranic Healing ADV(Energy body and Chakras)
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