Tag: antidepressants
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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Seasonal Affective Disorder and the Holidays
Usually, people who tend toward depression are very sensitive. As fall and winter pull us into our inner world of feelings, thoughts, intuitions, and sensations, it brings us closer to the subtleties of how we tick. We miss the light of spring and summer where everything is bright, clear and extroverted. I commonly hear clients,…
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Depression Clinics and the Success of Ketamine
Major Depression is now being treated with ketamine. Under a doctor’s supervision and in the correct dosage it is an effective treatment for depression. The success is significant, especially compared to the current treatment with antidepressants.  Previously it has been used in higher dosages as an anesthetic and then also for recreational use. What…
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Understanding Depression, An Aerial Perspective
Depression is an individual problem that is linked to a cultural problem. A cultural problem because anti-depressant medications are the third most prescribed drug in the United States.   http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/drug-use-therapeutic.htm That indicates to me a type of epidemic. To make it even worse, the depressive disorder is an epidemic that has become a normalized state…
