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EIGHT STEPS TO ERADICATE DEPRESSION

1.  Realize that you have a treatable condition and that there is hope.  People suffering from mood disorders frequently don't realize they have a problem.  They struggle with the storm of negative thoughts blowing through their mind, and they don't understand that their state of mind is abnormal.  They think that feeling down and depressed is the way their life is supposed to be.  They don't know that they can feel positive and enjoy each day.  They don't know that there is no limit to how good their life can become.  Until they realize that they have a treatable problem, and that there is hope, they will never get better.

2.  Reestablish command and control.  Either  you control your mind, or it controls you.  If your mind controls you, if it continually bombards you with chaotic racing thoughts that you don't want to think, if negative and twisted thoughts dominate your mind, then it's time to reestablish command and control.  You need to take command of your mind and control the thoughts you find there.  If you are trapped in deep depression you may need medication to reestablish command and control so that other types of therapy are effective.  If you have a milder mood disorder, you may be able to reestablish command and control without using medication.  Cognitive therapy alone may be effective in breaking the back of the negative and depressing thoughts that thunder in your mind.

3.  Recognize your cognitive distortions.  You must be able to recognize the distorted thoughts that bombard you when you feel negative and depressed.  You need to identify your twisted thoughts and call them by name.  Depressed individuals must become proactive and take responsibility for the treatment of their depression.  When you are able to recognize twisted and distorted thoughts, and call them out by name, you are on your way to winning the battle of the mind.  It won't be long before you feel better and your life improves.

4.  Reject your cognitive distortions.  Once you recognize that your twisted thoughts are abnormal, you can get rid of them.  Only the truth can set you free from your cognitive distortions.  As soon as you face the facts and reject your abnormal thoughts, you are on the path that leads out of the Land of Depression.

5.  Renew your mind with new thoughts.  Cognitive therapy is effective because that is the way God designed your mind to work.  Your thoughts (cognitions) create your emotions, and when you change the way you think, you also change the way you feel.  The Bible says, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind."  The Bible recognizes that you need a new way of thinking.  You must establish a program in which you regularly put positive and healthy thoughts into your mind.  God gave you a mind, and He expects you to fill it with good things.  Each day your job is to fill your mind with good things.  One of the best resources you can use to renew your mind is to use positive self-talk found at http://positiveselftalk.com.  You can change the way you think and feel by changing what you say when you talk to your mind.

6.  Reprogram your  mind with a positive operating system.  Your mind performs most efficiently when it has a positive operating system.  Positive thinking works because it's the natural software for your mind.  God made your mind so that it functions best when it's dominated by positive thoughts, and your job is to install a positive operating system.

7.  Radically shift your focus to God's love.  God's love is the most powerful and most positive force in the universe.  When you focus on it and let it into your heart and mind, it changes the way you think and feel, and you receive the power to overcome life's greatest challenges.  When your mind is full of thoughts consistent with God's love, your mind is exactly the way God means for it to be.  When your heart is full of emotions consistent with his love, your heart is exactly the way God means for it to be.

8.  Repeat these steps when you need to regain the high ground in the battle of the mind.  Don't let depression create a stronghold in your mind.  The war for a positive mind is fought on the battlefield of focus.  Use the power of focus to  drive depression from your mind and to fill it with positive things.  If  you really want to have a mind free from depression, nobody can stop you.

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Red Sea Chronicles DVD Previews

Good-bye Depression   Hello Positive Mind

Taking Back Control of Your Mind

The Land of Depression

The Laws of the Land of Depression

The First Law of Backward Thinking

Getting Your Black Belt in Negative Thinking

Backward Thinking Is a Trip to Fantasy Land

An Illusion Created by a Depressed Mind

Emotions Shout Down Your Rational Mind

The Second Law of Backward Thinking

The Feelings of Life Do Not Reflect the Facts of Life

The Third Law of Backward Thinking

Don't Strap Yourself into the Electric Chair of Depression

Escaping From the Land of Depression

Eight Steps to Eradicate Depression

Overcoming Depression and Advancing to the Next Level

Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Am I Ok After All?

Your Mental Mirrors - Inherited Mirrors of the Mind

Surviving your Personal House of Mirrors

Putting a Name on the Mirrors of Your Mind

Mirror One: All or Nothing Thinking

Mirror Two: Overgeneralization

Mirror Three: Mental Filter

Mirror Four: Disqualifying the Positive

Mirror Five: Jumping to Conclusions

Mirror Six: Magnification and Minimization

Mirror Seven: Emotional Reasoning

Mirror Eight: Should Statements

Mirror Nine: Labeling and Mislabeling

Mirror Ten: Personalization

God's Mirror - The Answer to All Cognitive Distortions

Mental Slippage - Loss of Command and Control

Mental Slippage - What's Happening

Mental Slippage - Control of Your Thoughts

Should You Use Medication to Treat Depression?

Mental Slippage - Content of Your Thoughts

How to Create a Positive Brain

Positive and Negative Brains

Positive Thinking Creates a Positive Brain

The Rest of the Story - Becoming Positive

Change Your Thoughts and Change Your Chemistry

A Word of Caution for People with Clinical Depression

Back to the Basics of Healthy Thinking

Positive Operating System

The Mathematics of Personal Change

Problems With a Negative Operating System

Characteristics of a Positive Operating System (POS)

A POS Has a Positive Focus

A POS Turns Bad Things into Better Things

A POS Looks for the Good in Everyone

A POS Looks for the Good in Everything that Happens

A POS Has Positive Expectations

A POS Is Positively Congruent

A POS Manifests a Positive Spirituality Based on Love

A POS Has a Positive Self-Image

A POS Has Positive Self-Esteem

A POS Gives You Real Power

A POS Takes You to a Positive Destination

Characteristics of a Negative Operating System

Decision Time - A Positive or Negative Operating System?

How to Install a Positive Operating System

Real Power

Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind

You Are a Creature of Emotion

Renewing Your Rational Mind Is Not Enough

Renewing Your Emotional Mind Requires Healing

God's Love Changes Who You Are

How Your Mind Was Designed

Dabbling in God's Love Isn't Enough

God's Master Plan of Love

God's Pipeline of Love

God's Love - The Definitive Cure for Depression

Eradicating Depression - Realize You Have a Problem

Negative Thinking and Fatigue

Negative Thinking and the Overloaded State

Habitually Negative State

Mild to Moderate Mood Disorders

Clinical Depression

Dealing With a Negative State of Mind

Reestablishing Command and Control

Battle Against Depression Fought on the Battlefield of Focus

The Power of Positive Focus

How to Create and Maintain a Persistently Positive Focus

The First Law of Focus - What You Think About Expands

How to Create a Persistently Positive Focus

The Second Law of Focus

The Third Law of Focus

The Fourth Law of Focus

The Fifth Law of Focus

Recognize Your Cognitive Distortions

Accidents Happen But Cognitive Distortions Are Optional

Reject Your Cognitive Distortions

You Beat Depression Thought by Thought

Renew Your Mind

The Big Eight - Think on These Things

Mental Toxic Waste

The Voice of Depression Is Full of Toxic Waste

The Dastardly Deed - How Toxic Waste Ruins Your Life

Toxic Waste Detector - The Big Eight

Reprogram Your Mind With a Positive Operating System

What You Talk About Expands

What You Write About Expands

What You Read About Expands

What You Look at Expands

What You Listen to Expands

Five Simple Steps to a Positive Life

Shift Your Focus to the Most Positive Force in the Universe

Never Attack and Argue with Negative Thoughts

It's Better to Switch Than to Fight

Negative Thoughts Cannot Survive in a Heart Full of Love

The Mega-Affirmation

Repeat These Steps to Win the Battle Against Depression

Everything You Wanted to Know About Negative Thinking

Negativity Destroys Opportunity

Negativity Blinds You to Possibility

Negativity Is the Black Hole of the Mind

Negativity Is the Most Powerful Thought Magnet

Negativity Can Overtake You Anywhere and Anytime

Negativity Creates Powerful Destructive Neuroassociations

Negativity Creates Inertia in Your Personal Life

Negativity Creates a Mentality of Limitations

Negativity Has the Wrong Focus

Negativity Creates a Distorted Interpretations of Reality

Negativity Is Easier Than Being Positive

Only Embrace Risk in a Positive State of Mind

The Way Out Is Different Than the Way In

Conflict Brings Negative Thoughts into Your Life

Your Need to Be Right is the Formula for Perpetual Conflict

Conflict Is a False Model for Solving Problems

Dealing With Conflict - Loving and Letting Go

Escaping From Perfection - The Great Pretender

Perfection Pretends to Be Your Friend

Perfections Sells a Perfect Life But Delivers a Miserable One

Perfection Steals Dreams

Don't Let Perfection Take Over Your Personality

Perfect Is the Enemy of Good

Escape the Web of Spiritual Perfection

Perfection Has the Wrong Focus

Life Is Still Terrific Even When It's Not Perfect

Guilt - Hazardous Substance - Handle With Care

Test Guilt With a Watch and Calculator

Jesus Did Not Pile on Guilt

How to Eradicate Guilt

Zero Tolerance to Negative Thinking

Every Negative Thought Contains an Important Lesson

You Cannot Think Just One Negative Thought

Learn the Lesson that Each Negative Thought Has to Teach

Take Positive Action Based on What You Learned

Displace Negativity with Positive Thoughts

Push Your Mind in a Positive Direction With Power Graphics

Sastrugi Happens

Keeping Adversity in Perspective

Never Panic

Make a Limited and Orderly Retreat

Sacrifice Only the Unimportant and Expendable

Assess the Situation

Marshall Your Resources

Plan Your Counterattack

Take Enthusiastic, Positive, and Fearless Action

Never Quit

Negative Thought Alert You That Something Is Wrong

Negative Thoughts Are a Stop Sign

Negative Thoughts Point in the Direction of the Problem

Negative Thoughts Provide Valuable Feedback

Motivational Value of Negative Thoughts

Positive Action Is the Appropriate Response to Negation

The Natural History of Negative Thoughts

Stop Negativity at the Door of Your Mind

Beating the Odds

When You Think Positive, Your Life Starts to Improve

Positive Thinking Makes a Difference

Do Not Ruin Your Life With Negative Thinking

Turn Bad Things into Better Things

Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat

Life Is Full of Opportunities to Make Bad Things Better

The Challenge

Affirmations for the Inner Skeptic

Affirmations Overwhelm Your Emotional Mind

Affirmations Are About Where You Are Going

The Wheel of Change

Instant Positive Thinking - Positive Neuroassociations

Positive Affirmations for Positive Power

What to Say When You Talk to Your Mind

The Supreme Law of Change

The Law of Positive Self-Talk

Two Inner Voices

The First Inner Voice - Your Mind Talking to You

The Second Inner Voice - You Talking to Your Mind

Powerful Self-Talk Comes 90% from the Heart

It Takes Time to Get Used to Your New Self-Talk

Maximum Strength Positive Thinking

Strong Arm Your Mind

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