Depression: The Single Most Important Truth You’ve Never Been Told

I’m not here to provide you with a new “remedy” for depression.

You’ve heard plenty of those.

You’ve heard from the psychologists and the psychiatrists. You’ve read about the latest treatments that “science” has uncovered. And the numbered list posts which, quite frankly, are an insult to the glorious creation that is a human being.

I will begin with a few statements:

1. People will sometimes invent problems so that they have an excuse to try out The Solutions.

2. People hang on tightly to their dramas because they don’t know who they would be without them.

In any viable path there is the Entry Point. The foundation which supports all subsequent steps along that path.

I will state this entry point for depression succinctly. And I will state it early in this discourse.

I am not trying to “treat” your depression. Or to help you “feel better.” Or to “improve your mood.”

Why not?

Because lending a sympathetic hand will only reinforce your view of yourself as a wounded individual.

The prerequisite for any true journey is Sincerity.

If you are Truly Sincere in dissecting this thing called Depression, let’s proceed.

What is the Entry Point of this path away from depression? What is the foundation which will support all subsequent steps along this path?

I ‘m about to state this plainly and clearly. But before I do, please understand that I am Not trying to treat your depression. Or to help you “out of depression.”

As a result, I ask that you read the remainder of this discourse not as a person who is depressed and in need of help. But as a person who is a Sincere Explorer who is free of disease. As a person who is Genuinely Dissecting a topic with an incisive intellect and an open heart.

The entry point and the foundation of the path away from depression is To Look At The Depression.

What do I mean by this?

Well, what I mean this this: We, as human beings, don’t really look at anything. We React to things. We Flinch from things.

And it is precisely this Reacting and Flinching that perpetuates the problems from which we flinch.

I Do Not want you to look at depression in a “confrontational” manner. I’m not asking you to look depression in the eye so that you can beat it down. I’m asking you to look deeply into its eyes like an innocent explorer.

And as you look into its eyes, try to find the things within it that are making you flinch. Find the things about it that are producing a profound reaction. Find its teeth and look into them. Look into its heart. What is this animal called depression. Dissect it. Study it. See it whole.

Do Not do this as a “technique” or a “ploy” or a “method” or a “treatment.” Do it innocently. Quietly. Resolutely.

I then want you to ask yourself the following question. Not from your lips. But from the chambers of your heart. Allow this question to seep into your bones.

One word of warning: when you ask yourself this question, the mind may give you a quick and reflexive answer. And this answer will be complete rubbish. Disregard it. It Will Not be the truth. And the only reason the mind is giving you this answer in the first place is so that you will swiftly abandon the question.

And asking this question is Not a form of treatment or technique. It is yet another experience of Sincerity and Quiet Exploration.

This is the question: What Is It That I’m Gaining From This Depression?

Explore what you are gaining from being a “depressed person.”

I will state quite dogmatically (please forgive), that depression does not Happen to someone. It is not a floating ball of pollen which lands upon a human being.

You will perhaps say that this is a “clinical depression” or that it is a “chemical imbalance.”

It’s interesting, whenever we inject physiology into the conversation everyone seems to bow in reverence.

When someone tells me that this is a “chemical reaction,” my response is “as opposed to what?”

Is there anything inside of us that isn’t a chemical reaction? Happiness is a chemical reaction. Anger is a chemical reaction. A chocolate bar produces a chemical reaction. A strong gust of wind does as well.

Calling it a chemical reaction doesn’t move it from the category of fake toward a category of “authentic.”

Am I calling depression fake?

No.

What I’m calling fake is the mock desire for Treatment.

What I’m calling fake are the Treatments themselves.

I don’t pull any punches here or at Siddha Performance.

Whether it is a world famous professional athlete, or a prominent CEO, it is all about The Truth. Nothing else will be spoken inside of this domain.

And as offended and disagreeable as some might be by the following statements, I will state them with a healthy dose of casualness and humility. But without apology.

Depression is a delicacy.

And it is often a delicacy of the elite, the successful, and the wealthy. It is ubiquitous in the corporate world. And it is pervasive among high level executives. And pro athletes. And especially among celebrities.

When one examines it unflinchingly, he or she very often sees that it is something that he or she has allowed themselves to Succumb To. Be it postnatal or otherwise.

In some cases, it is a byproduct of the ubiquitous human belief that we have many years left to live. Yes, you heard correctly. The seemingly infinite expanse of time is a petri dish for disease. For I will state without reservation that a man who knew that he was going to die in one week would suddenly be cured of his depression. Without any so-called treatment. Through one way or another, he would not let this time slip by under the self-loathing luxury of depression.

I’m not telling you to “snap out of it.”

I”m telling you to look into it.

I’ve called your bluff. Like no psychologist or psychiatrist will ever do. The solution is not in your childhood. And it most certainly isn’t within the capsule or the tablet.

And I can tell you this: during that time that you are Sincerely Exploring your depression, you will be free from the depression. For you will be examining it as a human being, rather than as a “depressed person.”

Listen, my friend. We all love our dramas. And we also love to pretend that we want to be free of them.

As for your physiology and the “chemical imbalance” . . . Well, these are the direct result of thought and intention.

I’m Not telling you that if you do what I say, you will gain a benefit. For I don’t believe in “prescriptions.”

What I’m saying is that if you Sincerely want to be free of something, you will Sincerely examine why you are holding onto it.

And once a human being is truly willing to do this, then a Genuine Path toward Cure and Freedom is born.

Namaste.