The Healthy Alternative to Drugs: What you must know about Depression

By Jonathan Caflisch

It is not what your mind does to you: it is what you do with your mind!

Depression is widespread and affects people of all walks of life. It is almost epidemic with young people. The irony of depression is how society deals with it. Drugs are freely handed out as a solution to cope but in a way they deepen the depression. The belief that there is something wrong with my brain simply adds to the feeling of powerlessness, the vary nuclei for depression. A self-defeating thought of powerlessness repeated, is using natural self-hypnosis in the most negative way. These repeated thoughts maintain depression and can lead to suicides. On the other hand, it is the same modus operandi that, repetitive thoughts of appreciation, gratitude and love lead to happiness. The same applies for your health. It is the same law. You get what you focus on.

Thoughts are electromagnetic and attract supporting thought patterns. They then form themselves into what I call gestalts or holoenergetics, like a hologram running your emotions and life, positive or negative. Those gestalts or conglomerations of negative beliefs take on their own lives and seek out support for their own existence.

It is mental energy that can become a depression. This is happening by the simple law of attraction. What you need to know is that you are at the helm. You acquiesce to your beliefs and feel stuck where you are. Here is the catch, you can only do to the extent of what you know!

Here is, where my eclectic style of counseling comes in, it is not just counseling but education. You need to learn how to operate your ship! You need to learn how to make good choices. Your own choices, not someone else’s, or some unconscious program accepted in early childhood, or be stuck with an impact from early childhood, which is so hardwired that you perceived it as reality. It is not reality, it is what you believe. You can change your beliefs and you change your reality.

This is the healthy alternative to drugs. Side effects are: empowerment, energy, happiness, congruence, exuberance and excellent health.

Amy is a young woman who came to me suffering from depression. Here is Amy’s account of her experience with short and effective therapy.

“I have always been an overachiever. I thrived on praise and would work simply for it. I had everything going for me. I was young, attractive, educated and was surrounded by wonderful supportive people. I knew I was lucky and should be happy, except I wasn’t. I felt inadequate, disconnected, lonely, I was sad. The more I tried to talk myself out of it the further away I felt from my life. I began to not be able to leave the house, because I could not face the world. I felt unbearably open and vulnerable and could not protect my heart and mind. I knew I needed to find help and after months of agonizing over the fact that I may just be feeling sorry for myself, I went to the doctor.

When I started taking the antidepressants, my world did get better. I was physically unable to feel sad. I knew it was not good to completely lose the ability to feel sadness, but I was terrified of slipping back. After 8 months of taking a pill every day I did not feel good anymore. I was sleeping a lot and crying often and traits from the past started to reoccur. I damaged and even ruined valuable relationships because of my inability to cope with daily life.

That’s when I called Jonathan Caflisch. I knew Jonathan from when I was younger. I knew he was a counselor that worked with personal energy and I knew he could help me.

After the first session I stopped taking my pills. I did not realize the extent to which my body had gotten used to a daily medication, and was shocked at how long I felt withdrawals. I continued to see Jonathan and after three weeks of dizziness and waves of disconnection I was done with the pills. My progress with Jonathan was fast and wonderful. I began to see life as this beautiful, exciting journey instead of a pointless chore that must be dealt with. After 4 weeks of sessions with Jonathan, he said I was out of my depression. He was right, I had never felt better and knew that I possessed the tools to keep myself happy. I would undoubtedly feel sad at times in my life, but I was allowed to express these feelings and continue to live life. When I left on my last day I turned to Jonathan and thanked him for helping me help myself. I had been in a place, which was headed for disaster, and now I am ready to journey through my life!”

Amy is an exceptionally cognitive young woman. Despite the drugs she took, the synapses in her brain jumped across beautifully to her well-developed logic bank. Hence the reason why her problems or challenges came back so quickly. If Amy would have gone back to the good doctor, I suggest the only solution in their belief system would have been to change or increase her medication. I believe this is what eventually leads a person, or a spiritual being to be emotionally flat lined. Amy followed a different impulse, a choice she made and came to see a counselor, in this case, me. Amy also knows that there is a lot more knowledge available, like how to create a wonderful relationship, how to create your reality, the path to the magical new age.

In the book, The Biology of Beliefs, Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles, the scientific knowledge behind our beliefs are described as follows.

“We have been programmed to accept that we are subservient to the power of our genes in creating our experience of our lives. The world is filled with people who are in constant fear that, on some unsuspecting day, their genes are going to turn on them. Consider the masses of people who perceive their genes as ticking time bombs, waiting for cancer, or some other disease to explode in their life. Millions of others attribute their failing health issues, such as cardiovascular disease, to inadequacies of their body’s biochemical mechanisms. Distraught parents readily blame unruly behavior on “chemical imbalances” in their child’s brain.

The current mainstream scientific dogma insists we are recipients of hand-me-down genetic codes that we are apparently unable to change. Consequently, we find ourselves not only victims of heredity, but powerless with regards to our ability to ”re-program” our fate. In assuming the role of powerless victims, we may rightfully deny responsibility for our ill health, both physical and mental. Unfortunately, this denial results in tremendous amount of human suffering and disease.

So much for the bad news.

The good news is that, in fact we are not victims of our genes. Astonishing advances in physics and cell biology have recently toppled the philosophical underpinnings of conventional biomedicine. A radically new understanding emerging at the cutting edge of cell science recognizes that the environment and more specifically, our perception of the environment, directly controls our behavior and the activity of our genes. Since our “perceptions” may be accurate or inaccurate, we may more appropriately refer to them as –beliefs. Beliefs control our biology, not our genes.”

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.-Cellular Biologist. Author of “The Biology of Belief”

I invite you, to journey with me for the next two years into the most wonderful experience you can make, take advantage of 35 years studying belief systems and their effects. “It is thy belief which healed you!” an old teacher! Become teachers yourself and start the new age for the betterment of mankind and the ailing planet. There is a future, but you have to create it with your energy!

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