It’s easy to give in to depression. As an entrepreneur, I can truly say this is the monster under the bed for me. When things are not happening as I had planned or hoped, and I'm not getting the results needed in my business, I feel the need to check under the bed (so to speak).
I lay in bed asking myself what was happening to me. The answer comes back: what you are allowing
to happen. Nothing can happen to you that does not happen through you. You are
in control of your destiny. Where do fears come from? They come from within
you. Fear is the negative conversation you have with yourself about yourself
and is usually a one sided conversation. You sit there listening to the
negative talk and ultimately, without even realizing it, you begin to agree
with it. Once you are in agreement with fear, all progress ceases and you
withdraw from the movement of life. When you withdraw, people say you are
DEPRESSED.
Depression is defined as a mood disorder that causes
a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. In order to defeat
depression, let go of the feeling of sadness and never, never, never lose
interest. Stop listening to the lie in your mind that keeps replaying. Change
the tape. It’s your CD. You can change it at will, if you will! Take one
negative comment and say it out loud. Then formulate the opposite of that
comment and speak that out loud. Acknowledge the feeling when you speak either
and decide to keep repeating whichever one makes you feel the best.
Definition of mood is: a frame of mind disposed or
receptive. The definition of the word “depress”:
to lessen the activity or
power of something – vocabulary.com
Cast down, dispirited, dejected, crushed – google dictionary
To lower in the amount of value; to make sad or gloomy; to
lower in spirits
No one can do that to you. You do it to yourself. This is
why peer pressure is a myth or at best an excuse to blame someone else for the choices
that you decide to make.
The truth is: you can be transformed by the renewing of your
mind – your subconscious, deep down inside of your mind. Replace every lie or
negative thought with the opposite, positive truth. There may be monsters under your bed, but they have no power over you. You are absolutely more than a conqueror and the "monsters" are afraid of you.
(this article is an excerpt from the book, “Murder of a Mindset by Apostle EJ)
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