Life stresses and Depression

Free life stresses and depression script:

As I continue to drift and float, all life stresses and depression, all sounds fade away into the distance. I pay attention only to the sound of my thoughts.

I know three absolute truths about depression that I intend to firmly imprint in my mind.

First I have a right to be here. I am as good as anyone. I am a child of the universe, no less than the trees or the stars. I have a right to be here, and whether or not it is clear to me, the universe is unfolding the way it should be.

Therefore, I can accept that there is a universal plan, greater than any man, greater than any one of us, and so, I can be at peace with myself.

I do not yet understand my life stresses and depression, but I realize the universe has a plan for me.

I can be at peace with myself if I want to be ...

Second, in that plan that affects everyone in this universe, outside of natural disasters, life stresses and depression are subconsciously self-inflicted.

My thoughts can influence the way my genes react to life stress. Positive thoughts protect my genes. Now, each emotion of the mind is reflected in the electro-chemical balance of the brain.

Prolonged feelings of life stresses and depression can cause chemical imbalance that, most times, corrects itself.

I will be successful in conquering depression, since I have been holding onto them for too long now.

When I do feel well again, I may do so for only a matter of minutes or hours, and then depression may return, and it may be another several days or even weeks before I again feel well.

There may be a half dozen of such ups and downs before the symptoms are gone for good.

The third absolute truth has to do with the necessity to live each moment of the here and now. For example, yesterday I was depressed but today is a new day. Every day is a fresh beginning.

Every day is a fresh beginning, and every morning is a world made new. Today is my most important day.

Yesterday is gone. Life streses and depression begin to fade, as I understand their purpose.

I cannot live in the past, because I cannot go forward, since living in the past dulls the keen edge of my imagination.

The past, even yesterday, can be of value only as I glean lessons and profits from my experiences.

Today, I awaken with the sunlight pouring in through the window, a new day is at hand, a new opportunity to build upon the lessons learned from yesterday's failures.

Now, I know I am here to accomplish something, some particular phase of the universal plan that is greater than man, greater than each and every one of us.

This universal plan or life force goes on whether I like it or not.

When I face life as a whole, and try to realize that every experience is leading me towards fulfillment of that plan, and when I take each day and endeavor to make the most of it, then, things come out alright.

I begin to realize the value of letting go of my life stresses and depression.

Someone has said I must listen for life to happen, listen expectantly.

Now, I know I have not been listening expectantly. I really have not been listening at all.

I have been concentrating on my problems and as long as I concentrate on a problem, then I have a problem, because I am what I concentrate my mind upon.

I am what I am greatly concerned with. Now, when I let go of that concern, and when I let go of that problem, by changing my thinking and say, "To heck with the problem!" then I

begin to see the solution to my problem, because my mind is free.

When my mind is free, I can utilize it to be effective to make it work. I must say from now on, I let go of my life stresses and depression.

I develop and maintain a happy disposition each day. Each day I reject the negative and see the positive in all things.

Because the only reason that I have been staying depressed is that I have not learned yet how to deal with my negative thoughts, to allow in the positive thoughts of truth and love and hope.

Every day is a new opportunity to prove myself in reality, to be a believer in truth, and love and hope. I know that it is unnecessay to feel helpless, hopeless, and without control.

I know that I can separate off and distinguish the vast difference between those life stresses and depression events in my life and my reaction to them, for they are vastly different.

They are not the same at all and I must separate off from those events in my life and my reaction to them.

The problem is not whether I need a new job, whether my wife, husband or partner has gone or left, or that someone else did right or wrong, or that I did right or wrong, or the terrible things that occurred in my life.

It is not any of those things at all. It is my reaction to them.

It is the sentences I say in my head, such as, "Oh, my husband is gone! I cannot live without him!" Or, "I've got a terrible pain in my back! I'll never live a normal life again!"

That is really the problem for when I give myself those negative thoughts, then I am bound to feel depressed, so I have to learn how to turn those sentences around, turn them around completely.

I have to learn how to let go of life stresses and depression.

Instead I now say: "OK, so I made a mistake, but I won't again" Or, "OK, so my wife died and I miss her, but I can start over with a new life." Or, "so I am black and I did not get the job, well I was meant to get a job with people that value me and my skills."

Whatever it is that I say to myself about those past things made me depressed, because I had not learnt to turn them around.

And when I am depressed, when I am in this frame of mind, I am dead! That is death! That is not Life.

Remember the saying " Let the dead bury the dead" It means that I should not hold onto what burdens or makes me look back with excuses for being unable to live my life right now.

I am through looking back. I can only live the very moment I am living.

I can live that to the fullest, and enjoy it by positive thinking.

I know I have had the desire, and urge, to accomplish something I have never attained.

I will take each day as it comes, and enjoy the sunshine, the song of the birds, the laughter of the children. I will see all those positive things.

I will let go of life stresses and depression.

I will begin to accomplish new things on the first rung of the ladder of life.

As I seek higher and wider visions, each new day becomes the next rung upwards, a new opportunity to rise above

yesterday's life stresses and depressions, sorrows, frustrations, and failures, to a world made new.

Now, in my mind's eye, I visualize a sign, a sign, hanging right in front of me. On that sign has three words on it, and the words are: That was yesterday.

That was yesterday, when things didn't go right.

That was yesterday, when I failed to turn my negative thoughts around.

That was yesterday when I gave up hope.

That was yesterday, when I didn't decide to start over, like I should have.

That was yesterday, when I was only thinking of myself, instead of the happiness of others, and what I could do for them.

That was yesterday, when I made a mistake.

That was yesterday, when I believed that life stresses and depression affected me.

That was yesterday, when I knew I said the wrong thing.

That was yesterday, when I knew I did the wrong thing.

That was yesterday.

That was yesterday, when I hated myself, but now I will begin to love myself.

Every day is a fresh beginning, and every morning is a world made new, and the past is not wholly wasted.

By replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts, every new moment is a new opportunity, and as I accept this truth, I feel the warmth of truth and love and hope course through your heart...

I relax completely, confident that there is a plan for me, and that, even though I can't understand, I must go through these learning experiences that I am going through, in order to satisfy that plan.

I must let go of life stresses and depression.

I am, nevertheless, perfectly willing to go through whatever experiences I need to go through, so that I can allow myself to be the master of my own fate, to be in control of my own feelings, for this dawn of a new day only comes after the night.

I cannot have a mountain without valleys, otherwise, everything is all a plateau. The world would be flat.

The brightness of the sun would mean nothing, except by comparison to the darkness of the night.

It's only by contrast that we can understand life, and so, instead of reacting adversely to the problems and frustrations of yesterday, I hang on them that sign.

That sign that says, That was yesterday, when I allowed life stresses and depression to influence my life - I see the sign in your mind's eye.

I lift those problems from my shoulders and hang them upon that sign and leave them there.

As a result of the faithful practice of my self-hypnosis, and the learning to control my thinking in a positive way, every day is a fresh beginning.

Every day I learn to let go of life stresses and depression, and to see them instead as lessons.

Every morning is the world made new, and this is a new day for me, and a new morning - a day without depression, a day without frustration, a day without failure, a day in which I am more effective in every single area of my life, than I have ever been before.

Because I have let go of my problems. I have stopped letting them handle me.

I am handling it, by turning those negative thoughts around, because the events of my life are unable to affect me.

I observe them. I understand the purpose of them. I know they are there to allow me to grow to a higher level. I let them go without reacting to them.

I am teaching my body to relax in the face of life stresses and depression, failures and saddness.

I am going to learn to relax comfortably, in the knowledge that I can and will do my part, and will continue to live my life with honour and dignity.

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