Self Hypnosis

Overcoming Depression With Stress Management Hypnosis

Richard Kuhns

Depression can be hell. Basically three scenarios contribute to depression. The first is an identity crisis. Example: John, my client, (referred to me by his doctor), sheepishly looked at me and said, “I just can’t get the energy to get up from bed in the morning. As I look at my 90 yr. old mother I know that in just another twenty years or so my body will look like hers. And what’s worse whenever I visit her she says, ‘I just want to die and get it over with.’”

He went on to say, “We all observed President Regan, a powerful man, reduced to the limitations of Alzheimer’s disease. At one time in my life I thought I’d become a successful business man and instead I am now retired owing a lot of money with a only a few nest eggs that will never make me rich. One of the commentators in the movie The Secret said the purpose of life is what we make it. It seems to me that my purpose has come and gone. Some people owe me money and I doubt that I’ll ever receive it. Yet, I have to ask myself why it matters anyway? There are a lot of people that would give their ‘eye teeth” to have what I have. They would ask, ‘Why’s he depressed, he is CEO of his own company that runs itself, has a beautiful young fun-to-be-with wife, and a gorgeous home that many would die for…?’”

It’s easy to see that John was in the midst of an identity crisis brought on by his semi retirement. He had relinquished control of his business to someone else and unlike most clients who are in denial, he acknowledged he was depressed and felt guilty for being depressed. He noticed that no mater how much he fought it, it persisted.

The second scenario that leads to depression is that with many clients there is a love hate dichotomy. There’s a person or situation which for some reason (for a variety of reasons) they feel that they should like but in reality they hate the situation or person and can’t allow themselves to acknowledge or feel the hatred.

Example: After Lyn’s mother passed away, her father came to live with her and her family. Strangely though, as a child she hated her dad and in many ways blamed him for his mother’s passing. I found it quite ironic that she’d take him in and asked her how she feels about her father today. Her answer was, “You’re supposed to love your father, aren’t you?”

Her inability to resolve this conflict of feeling led to her depression.

Back to John. I had him list all the reasons why he shouldn’t feel depressed. Some of them were:
“I feel like I’m an ingrate.”
“It’s no fun.”
“I don’t even like being around myself.”

The third scenario that contributes to depression is a string of stressful events (situational depression) such as change in supervisors (from a good one to a bad one), financial loss, uncertainty in business, worry… It’s easy for some of these to be connected with identity crisis, but generally when the stressors are resolved or disappear, the depression lifts.

On a physical level, among several dietary recommendations, I had John add Vitamin B complex, Vitamin D, and Magnesium Citrate to facilitate the production of tryptophan. Tryptophan is instrumental in the creation of serotonin.

Next we worked with his sudden loss of self esteem. And, rather than continue the path of fighting depression I taught John how to embrace the emotion of depression, acknowledge his resistance to it and practice option training.

Option training is for him to remind himself on a regular basis that he has options such as learning from the experience, benefiting somehow from it, moving beyond it, generating new interests…

After the third session of option training he said, “I received a photo of a toddler my cousin just adopted–it was angelic. I placed it on the dining table where every time I looked at it I smiled. Then other things began happening. I began picking up tid bits of wisdom from the things I read. Sometimes I actually forgot what it felt like to be depressed and the times I do feel depressed, I stopped resisting it and simply went with it. As I stopped fighting it I generated some enthusiasm to do something.”

But what really contributed to his depression was that he knew the man who he chose to operate his company was not the right man for the job. The company was not going in the right direction and eventually by terminating that employee and taking back the reins of his company he lifted a tremendous weight from his being.

Look at the word “Depress ed” It’s like a weight depressing one–the weight being the pressures of life.
He wanted the employee to work out but it didn’t. He lost control of his company and didn’t like it’s direction and by taking back the reins the depression was “lifted.” Actually the weight that held him down was lifted.

In summary, conquering depression is to:
1. Acknowledge being depressed.
2. Learn to embrace the emotion.
3. Acknowledge the resistance to feeling depressed.
4. Aim the creative intelligence for options.

This along with creative hypnosis releases the subconscious mind to find enthusiasm and meaning in life to lift depression.

About the author:

Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH
certified is a prominent figure in the field of
self help hypnosis programs and a
specialist in Waking Hypnosis to eliminate
anxiety panic attack. His aim is to raise awareness on how deal with depression.  To find out more please visit
http://www.dstressdoc.com/OvercomeDepression.htm

Your subconscious mind is not as mysterious or as inaccessible as you might think….. do you know that same old running dialog you keep going over and over in your head? What are you thinking about when you wake up in the morning? What are the things you keep telling yourself? What are the thoughts you are pushing away, and ignoring?I am going to outline a very simple project is to help you get in touch with what is really going on in your head…All you will need is a small pocket size day book calendar, or a simple notebook.This is very simple- Every day, you will-

#1- Keep track of what you are thinking about that is NOT helpful towards your goals. You will probably need to create a sort of short hand or abbreviated notation of what you are thinking about- guaranteed, it will more than fill a page, so try and create a symbol for different types of thoughts, like a heart for relationships, dollar sign for money, etc. These are the thoughts that say, I’m not good enough, I don’t have enough, blaming others for your problems, dwelling on and worrying about things you can’t change, etc. You know what I am talking about! Remember, you are to “fill your leisure hours, contemplating your vision”. How can you do this, when you are filling your leisure hours (or minutes) contemplating your stupid, low paying job, your disadvantaged childhood, the aggravation your family causes you, etc, etc. You will be AMAZED at how many little symbols you mark down, one after another! But this will lessen, the more you listen to the self hypnosis program, and are mindful of your thoughts.

#2- For every positive thought you give towards your goals, to contemplating your vision, give yourself a symbolic $10.There is nothing that motivates like a little green stuff! This will get your mind used to the idea that positive thoughts will create positive results. And you can create a symbol for the positive thoughts you seem to nurture the most; this will point you in the direction of your “next step”, the goals and desires that have the strongest pull forward along your path.

#3- Give the negative thoughts a value of $1, and subtract them from the positive thoughts. Keep track of this “ledger style” like an accountant. By the time you are “making a profit” from your positive thoughts, you will definitely be well on your way to success!

Jane Ma’ati Smith is a certified graduate of the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, a Sound Energy Practioner a Vibrational Reiki Master, and a qualified mental health professional. www.get-rich-mp3-download.com