To understand where depression comes from, it's first necessary to step back and look at the bigger picture. You have a flow of raw emotional energy that constantly flows into you. Out of this flow you create your emotions. You think your thoughts and feel your feelings out of this flow of raw energy.

The more you let this flow into your heart, the more alive you feel and the less chance you'll feel depression. The problem is, we've been taught and conditioned from a very early age that emotions are bad and wrong and you should not even have them. And if you do have them, then you need to not feel them.

So we learn to shut down our feelings. Especially the ones we don't want to feel, like anger and fear and hurt and pity. But that doesn't work very well. You can't just shut down some emotions and let the other ones flow through, because they're all flowing through the same pathway.

When you try to shut out the feelings you don't want to feel, you're actually shutting down the entire flow. But it never works the way you want it to. You can't really shut out some feelings and not others. So you shut down some more. But that doesn't work, so you shut down some more.

It becomes a vicious downward spiral, where the very action that produces the problems appears to be the solution. So all you know to do is to keep shutting down more and more. Which makes you feel worse and worse.

Depression amounts to a lack of feeling. The more you shut down, the more depressed you get. At some point, you fall off the edge of a cliff. And you end up feeling nothing but darkness and deadness and despair.

That's true depression. And it's a dangerous place to be.

It's like being at the bottom of a dark hole and you can't just climb back out. It's like that old TV commercial - "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"

It's like you've got a heavy wet blanket covering you, and the world looks bleak and gray.

So what do you do? The very first thing is to get that heavy weight off your back.

Unfortunately, it doesn't respond well to conscious choice. It is created in the subconscious mind as a 'protective mechanism'.

There is something in your world that you need 'protection' from, or so your subconscious believes. So it creates a 'layer of protection' which really amounts to a heavy wet blanket that weighs you down and makes you trapped in depression.

Usually, depression is triggered by anger you will get in trouble for having.

It's not the big things, the big angers, the potentially explosive events, but rather the small angers that keep building and building and building, often times for years.

All of a sudden you wake up depressed, and you have no idea why. That's when you've fallen off the side of a cliff.

This is not the only way depression starts, but it's probably the most common. Unfortunately, it's like bringing in snakes to get rid of your rat problem. The 'cure' that your subconscious mind provides is much worse than the original problem.

And besides this trigger, there are underlying causes at work that lay the foundation for depression. Like termites eating away at a home - it may be years before you recognize any damage has been done.

These underlying causes are your contribution - and they can be reversed before you become depressed, or they can even be reversed after you've already started suffering.

And that's good news: most depression can be reversed. Basically, it comes down to changing your relationship with your emotions. To make them an ally instead of an enemy. To consciously choose to feel your feelings instead of stuffing them down.

If your subconscious mind has been programmed for depression - you can take all the drugs in the world and it won't help.

Your subconscious mind 'flipped a switch' in your brain, and you woke up depressed.

The switch - your brain chemicals.

So yes, I do believe a lack of serotonin can lead to depression. But that's only half the story. The real question to ask: why would you have a lack of serotonin?

Some would say it's the 'switch' that caused your depression, and you really are a random, innocent victim.

I would say it's the one who flipped the switch that caused your depression - namely, your subconscious mind.

Taking drugs is like killing the power to your whole house, as a way to flip that switch back off.

Sure, you can shut off the power, but for how long? You don't want to sit in the dark. You don't really want to be a drug-zombie.

Besides, no matter how much you attempt to dominate your neurotransmitters with drugs, your subconscious will find a way to get through.

Drugs can dam the river, but eventually the water must flow.

What my technique does, is to command your subconscious to go over to the wall, and flip that switch of depression OFF.

The technique I am revealing to you is a way to 'talk' to your subconscious in a language it will understand - to let it know you want this to end!

Maybe you already know - the best way to communicate with your subconscious is to use images; visual images of what you want.

Your subconscious mind is almost infinitely smarter than you. You don't need to try to outwit it.

However, it does speak a different language than you do. It's like if somebody from another country comes up to me in Florida, and they don't speak English. If I think they're dumb just because they don't speak my language, who is the real dummy?

Also, the subconscious has it's own set of rules that it must follow. The subconscious has no 'choice'. It cannot choose anything on it's own.

Like the supercomputer that can always beat you at chess - it can't choose whether or not it wants to play. That choice is yours.

Your subconscious is aware of you and what you are going through. It doesn't want you to suffer, through depression or any other way. But it has no choice.

It is merely giving you what it thinks you want. All it can do is 'follow orders'. It's not a leader. You are.

It must follow the 'programs' you have laid down.

That's the rule.

Trying to change it can be like trying to change the course of a river.

The power of the subconscious is immense. It's a waste of time to fight it. It's much smarter to work with it. All you have to do is know what to say and how to say it.

That's where I come in. I can tell you the 'magic words' to say to your subconscious mind to make the depression go away.

You'll know exactly how to talk to your subconscious and exactly what to say to it, to handle your depression.

You'll learn how to end your depression.

Then you can start working on that foundation I mentioned above, so your depression doesn't come back.

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