Depression Natural Cures - Lift Your Mood Nauturally and Quickly !
Depression is an illness, and it has been shown to affect no less than 6% of any sample population (America for example) at any given period.
The percent may indeed be much higher at times of stress. Many sufferers need medical attention; as the depression does not just go away on its own, here we are going to show you some simple natural cures.
Depression has basically three levels of severity; mild, moderate, and acute (meaning severe).
Mild depression is described as the sufferer having difficulty in with their normal daily activities.
moderate depression disables the sufferer to function properly at their work or in private life.
Acute depression can produce a condition that interferes with a person’s ability to generally function normally. This in tern can also produce collateral symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations, and can eventually lead to suicide.
There are of course, many synthetic pharmaceutical remedies for depression.
Some are very well known and have been used by doctors for some time. They do, unfortunately have their own adverse side effects, such as dependency (thus withdrawal symptoms. An example is Paxil, were the US, FDA is now requiring the manufacturer to state the drug has severe withdrawal symptoms).
Happily, there are several natural ways to lift depression, and some aren’t even medicines at all. See below a list of what is being used (some very successfully against depression).
•Kriya Yoga. This is a form of Yoga that uses a type of rhythmic hyperventilation, and its daily practice has been shown in studies to alleviate several or all of depressive symptoms in whole ranges of depressive symptoms.
•Bright Light Therapy. Originally a test and treatment for depressed pregnant woman, the Bright Light Therapy has also been used to treat SAD (seasonal affective disorder), where the sufferer has a depression due to the season’s lack of sunlight.
•St. John’s Wort (hypericum perforatum). This is a long-studied, and well tolerated natural herbal cure for depression.
St John’s Wort contains a variety of natural antidepressant substances including, hypericin, pseudohypericin and hyperforin. These work at the root of mild depression, boosting neurotransmitter function and returning your mood to normal.
It may not work as fast as the pharmaceutical alternatives, but there are NO side-effects, and in time (perhaps 6 weeks) are just or more effective.
•EPA. This is one of the Omega-3 fatty acids, derived from fish oil. Recent studies show high does of this natural substance are curing acute depression, even suicidal tendencies.
•Saffron. New studies have indicated that saffron (long known for its anti-depressive qualities) is as effective as imipramine and Prozac.
•DL-Phenylalanine (DLPA), is now considered by many doctors an effective antidepressant. This herbal remedy for depression works by raising phenylethylamine (PEA) levels in the brain increasing the production of Norepinephrine. This natural antidepressant also protects and increases the lifetime of Endorphins (chemicals involved in mood and pain regulation). DL-Phenylalanine converts to L-tyrosine in the body.
•L-Threonine is an essential amino acid. In several studies, L-Threonine supplementation gave people with acute depressive symptoms a greater control over their moods.
•5-HTP. This is an herbal remedy for depression that is also the immediate precursor to Melatonin and Serotonin. Serotonin gives a neurochemical balance during times of stress, and is essential to regulating mood and other important bodily functions.
* Skullcap (scutellaria laterifolia). ) Skullcap is rich in the minerals that are essential for the nervous system. This herbal remedy for depression is also used for agitation, neurasthenia, anxiety, fatigue, hysteria, and headaches, Skullcap as an herbal remedy for depression is useful to relieve withdrawal symptoms when going off of pharmaceutical antidepressants and tranquillizers.
As you can see, there are many alternatives to the synthetic, and possibly harmful drugs now given to relieve depression.
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Read This Article if Life Sometimes Frustrates You
Does life often frustrate you; do you feel challenged by the events of daily life? The traffic, the stress and all the sound and fury that will not give you a rest; does this frustrate you. Why do you let the world bother you in this way? Why do you let it affect your internal feelings? Why do you worry about such trivial things? Why do you allow the unimportant events of the external to affect your energy in such a negative way?
If you cannot control your own emotions then you are merely reacting to stimuli. May I ask you what this says to your free will? Are you being controlled or are you controlling your own life? If you have surrendered yourself to outside stimulus then you have effectively unconsciously given away your mind and your destiny to something other than you.
If you choose to continue on this path and it is a choice in your life that is okay too, but you should be keenly aware of what you are doing as you give your life away to the sound and fury of the human endeavor and mass media hysteria. By the way have you decided yet why you do this? Why are you allowing yourself to be manipulated, controlled and motivated like a puppet on strings? Is there a purpose to your motions; is it a planned means to an end or are you stuck in the sand where your wheels do spin. Think on this.
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How to Develop a Happy and Healthy Workplace
> Employees withhold 2/3 of what they are capable of contributing to a company in the form of talents, skills, experience, information and ideas.
>Workers can’t help but be indifferent and apathetic when they are pursuing someone else’s objectives. Ownership is the key to corporate success and constructive change.
>Trust employees with sensitive information. This doesn’t mean you share everything with them. It does mean that you keep them informed about what is going on and how it will effect them.
> Give the people you lead meaningful input into destiny decisions.
> If you are ever going to maximize corporate potential, you must do everything in your power to maximize human potential.
> Your workers are your business. When you eliminate people problems, your business is bound to improve.
> The chief task of a leader is to restore and maintain optimism, enthusiasm and morale.
> If your team mission statement is to be credible and relevant, its vision and values must be more than a framed statement on the wall. There must be a constant challenge to become what we collectively say we are.
> Who tells you honestly and openly what you need to know, but don’t want to hear? If the answer is ” No one” you are in trouble and so is your company, school, organization etc.
> If there is a problem ,ask for solutions. Listen carefully, apply the suggestions given and suspend your own judgment. You will be surprised how quickly and effectively the problem gets solved without your dominant input.
> If people are your greatest resource, then corporate behaviour must show it.
> Treat the people you work with the way you want to be treated.
> Mark Twain said that he could live contented for two months on one compliment. Compliment generously and genuinely.
> Never take credit for another’s idea.
> Never give out, “YOU ARE SPECIAL” buttons in an attempt to improve morale.
> Encourage the people you lead to ask, “WHY” questions. Don’t be threatened by them.
IT PAYS TO CARE!
Mike Moore is an international voice on the role of appreciation, praise and humor in performance motivation and human potential. He travels throughout North America giving speeches and seminars on self-actualization. His writing and cartoons have appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout Canada and the U.S.A. He works out of Brantford ON Canada
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