I subscribe to some strange stuff. I get this magazine from the Southern Poverty
Law Center called Teaching Tolerance.
The SPLC does some good work on ferreting out and exposing racism, so I
send money to them each year.
This current issue Teaching Tolerance Issue 45 Fall 2013 had
an article called “The Shame Game.”
Nicely written regarding teenage depression and methods to
explore acceptance.
However, this article does not go far enough.
What seems clear to me apparently is not so clear to
others. Perhaps it is because I am a confirmed
medical heretic.
Depression in some cases may have to do with genetic
deficits in neuro-hormones such as serotonin, norepinephrine, and maybe even
unknown neuro-transmitters. However, in
most cases depression is really a signal that change is occurring, or change
needs to occur.
This needs to be taught as central to the new practice of
medicine.
This is only Tier 2 Medicine, realizing the connection of
body and mind.
This doesn’t even get to Tier 3 Medicine!
Again, I’ll push Peter Levine’s work on trauma, defining pain,
suffering, and depression as the language of the body. Where the mind expresses its needs and
desires through body symptoms.
Also, Peter has a new workbook written with Maggie Phillips,
full of fantastic exercises to connect the body and mind, which leads to Spirit/Source!
This idea that working with personal trauma, suffering, and
depression can lead to enlightenment is revolutionary to conventional medicine.
Yet, this idea has been present in Buddhism for thousands of
years.
Recently, these ideas have birthed a method for treating
depression called Mindfulness–Based Cognitive Therapy.
There are many of you out there with depression, anxiety,
trauma, anorexia, cutting, fibromyalgia, and other problems not well treated by
conventional allopathic medicine.
You may need to take your healing and evolution into your
own hands. Realize that these symptoms
are messages from your brain-body connection, and maybe even further than just
your personal brain-body (Tier 3 Non-local thinking here. Heretic!)
Read some of the above links. Get Peter and Maggie’s book. Practice those exercises.
Maybe find a transpersonal psychologist that you resonate with,
if you can afford it.
Even the realization that these symptoms can be a pathway to
enlightenment can change the way you think about your symptoms.
I applaud every step that you make in your personal
evolution.
Each step is a blessing!
My you be Safe. May
you be Healthy. May you be Happy. May you live with Ease.
Namaste.
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