Comprendamos que todo pasa y se aprende [Modo Antidepresión] -Esp/Eng-

Good evening and my warmest greetings to the entire community of @holos-lotus community where I have always felt quite comfortable and where I was a little absent lately as I was more dedicated to my musical side that some of you already know. Today I decided to write a reflection that has a lot to do with how we perceive our reality and what we can do to hack the filter in our heads, to take advantage of our daily perceptions and avoid a depressive mood or at least attenuate it. I join the initiative of my good friend @gsbilbao "In anti-depression mode" to share what has helped me to cope with this psychological condition that can cause so much damage in all our existential dimensions: physical, social, biological and spiritual.

Everything under the sun is a lesson

Before I begin I want to clarify that I understand that depression is a very delicate disease, but it is also an energy imbalance that can be easily induced by bad habits such as: poor sleep hygiene, pornography consumption, exaggerated exposure to social networks and blue screens, poor diet, hormonal imbalances and a large etc. . It is therefore a multifactorial disease where many causes are involved, however we must understand that curiously being complex creatures biologically and socially, the emotions we cultivate affect our organic balance but in turn the welfare of our body directly or indirectly affects emotions.

Now we are going to talk about something that interested me deeply since I saw it. There is a very famous psychiatrist called Marian Rojas Estapé, author of a book called "How to make good things happen to you". In one of her many interviews she talked about the (ARAS) or ascending reticular activating system, a structure that is near the brainstem. It turns out that the ARAS is involved in alertness but also functions as a kind of filter for the external experience we perceive with our senses. The good news is that because we perform this filtering of external information in an unconscious way on a daily basis, we probably do not have the best results; but if with a little effort we make a more conscious interpretation of our perceptions we can positively influence the filtering executed by the RAAS, and consequently be able to have some influence on the reward processes of our neurotransmitters. Let us remember that part of what we call depression is also an erosion or malfunction of these brain neurotransmitters.

Now if I go with the message of this publication

After having talked a little about neurotransmitters and brain structures, let's philosophize a little. The planet earth, our home, has existed for millions of years on the time scale, and we (human beings) are just newcomers (just a few thousand years since we appeared), life does not have to be fair and the most bitter truth is that in fact life is neither fair nor unfair, LIFE IS. Everything that happens around us is subject to our mental categorizations, everything that happens under the sun is a lesson. One of the things that has helped me to have a better vision of the world is not to take problems and vicissitudes personally, for me they are lessons and I assume myself as a learner. Each day, even if it is very similar to the previous one, has something to teach us, we must be attentive enough to understand that many times we are drowning in a glass that often has no water. We are beings with a very great energetic and spiritual potential, let's be aware of it and try as much as possible to appreciate life for what it is: A PRESENT.

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