Overcoming Shorterm Depression

We all, at times, must visit the inevitable nadirs that we come across on our spiritual paths. Fortunately, you are smart, and wise, enough to realize some of the important ways included in the Way out.

These include: Exposure to good reading (the deeply spiritual), improvement in nutrition (leaving out poor dead critters), and personal meditation. One of the best counter-depressive activities is to GET BUSY in the service of Love! Find someone with a need (this is cake) and work to help them find solutions. Get busy with email, phone-calls, visits, and build up your spiritual "family." Act in honest, compassionate concern-- healing in itself.

Working with environment, expose your senses to bright reds and oranges. Use essence of orange as aromatherapy. Listen to bright music. Invite over a friend for tea and conversation. Get a half-hour of good exercise.

There are, in short, many things that you can do to aid the problem of shorterm depression. Remember that the very worst response is inactivity. To "do nothing" will likely make the situation worse.

Of course, implementation is not going to be easy, as it will require discipline.

But the stakes are so very, very high, for what you can lose is your inner stability and balance, not to mention detachment, and joy. This would return you to the role of karma-generating mind, swamping you--perhaps for centuries to come! (This is a worst-case scenario, better than which would be almost any other outcome!)

Might I suggest that you get started immediately (not a nanosecond to lose) with the easiest part of the program, and begin by spiritual reading? My books were written for precisely such psychological emergencies as the one that you are now facing. (This is not an overstatement!) Please begin today to read some good spiritual stuff, carefully, with attention and mindfulness.