Healing from Depression

"There is no medicine like hope.
No incentive so great
And no tonic so powerful
As the expectation
Of something better tomorrow."
Orison Swett Marden

The reason we have this freedom is that situations are never totally black or white. Life is a mixture of light and dark, positive and negative. Or as they say in the martial arts, every situation has both an inherent advantage and an inherent disadvantage. If this is true, then why not choose to focus on what is advantageous? This is precisely what the person with an optimistic mindset is able to do. Let's explore some tools that make this possible.

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"Count your blessings, not your crosses,
Count your gains, not your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes,
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Covet your health, not your wealth."
Proverb

Ideally, prayer should be connected with action. As one spiritual teacher put it, "You don't pray and then hang out in bed with your sneakers on. Pray as if everything depended on God, but act as if everything depended on you."

"Ask and ye shall receive. Seek and ye shall find.
Knock and the door shall be opened.
For everyone who asks receives,
And he who seeks finds,
And to him who knocks, it shall be opened."
Matthew 7: 1-3

Henry Ford once said, "If you think you can, you can. If you think you can't, you can't. Either way you are right.

What goes down must come up.
There can be no death without rebirth.
Every ending is followed by a beginning.
The experience of hell is a precursor to the glory of heaven.

Mark Twain: "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened to me."

Another worry-stopping tool comes from self-help author Wayne Dyer. He said that everything we worry about falls into two categories--those things we can change and those we cannot. If you worry about something that you have control over, then act to change it; if not then just accept it