| Author: Foras Aje |
Depression and its symptoms are mostly in the mind. However, what we should know is the mind is affected by several factors including diet. Thus it will be safe to say one crucial step in depression treatment and control will be-amongst other factors-monitoring one's diet: for physical and mental health.
Now friends, I had mentioned and offered praise to Yoga for being an excellent therapeutic choice for depression treatment. Nonetheless, to augment that fact, being a very important limb of Yoga into itself- what you eat also has an effect on your mental health.
That considered a crucial step will be to make some dietetic changes for depression treatment amongst other factors.
Admittedly, when in depression, most of us have the tendency to binge in an effort to mask our feelings or deaden the pain, some of us go as far as soliciting the use of alcohol, drugs or even sex for depression help.
Although they may give some relief for a while, when these mere distractions wear off, the symptoms of depression always do come back, and with a vengeance.
Friends, an observance of nature will show us that when animals are frightened or angered, they refrain from eating until after the passage of considerable time. It is true that under stressful circumstances many civilized people refrain from eating and find in truth that they lack the desire for food, but it is also too often that most will eat large meals under these circumstances, which will be mostly disease forming foods to start with, that as a consequence, complicates or altogether halts an already retarded ongoing digestion.
This endless cycle leads to even more toxins and poisons in an already encumbered body.
Taking this into consideration, it will be sensible to take a break from eating when dealing with depression (as in a fast) at least till your emotional balance returns, which will be the end result as the body is not taxed with the duties of digestion, assimilation and re-building.
One's mind clears and all moroseness disappears and consequently, we tend to find the answers to the problems warranting a treatment for depression in the first place.
These steps, be they a fast or a healthier diet, will ensure that the body is cleaner and well we all should know by now that a cleaner body equates to a cleaner mind.
So in my opinion, instead of introducing chemical substances into your body in a quest for seeking depression treatment, from the facts above, it will be wise to first make a dietetic change, which again may include a short fast, at least to clear our minds first to tackle our problems, then eat the proper foods for nourishment and of course partake in some physical exercise (my choice being some Yoga) to obtain the inevitable feel-good results.
One last thing on the subject of diet and depression treatment, I choose to remind you of this quote: 'Let your foods be your medicine and your medicine your foods' (By Hippocrates the 'Father or Medicine')
May happiness be yours.
In Friendship,
Foras Aje |
Author Bio:
Foras Aje
Foras Aje was born in Washington DC and at the age of four moved with his family to Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria. It was here that he was endowed by his father with a desire to delve into the cause and reasons for occurrences and results.
This lent itself into finding the solutions to the maladies acne and asthma, of which he was suffering, after other conventional methods proved unsuccessful. Consequently, this placed him on the path of naturopathy otherwise known as drugless healing.
Through a radical change in diet and exercise: (Yoga and Calisthenics), he was able to banish close to a decade of his marring acne and a lifetime of asthma. Along with this came the disappearance of depression, lethargy and a marked increase in overall health and fitness.
Convinced of the efficiency of the methods passed down from great health pioneers, in his words: "My goal is to show as many people as I can the wonderful results of Nature's way of healing the body if she's only given half a chance! There is no limit to the potential the human body has when it adheres to her laws! With proper diet, positive mental attunement and exercise, any and everyone can unshackle the bondage of misery and disease in one's own life."
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