WINNING THE BATTLE FOR A POSITIVE MIND
The war for a positive mind is fought on the battlefield of focus. Until you learn how to control your mental focus, it will be extremely difficult to win the battle for a positive mind.
Controlling your mental focus isn't that difficult. The hard part is controlling it persistently and consistently.
If you are going to win the battle against depression, you will have to discover the power of positive focus and use every tool at your disposal to develop and maintain a positive mental focus.
Overcoming depression is hard, perhaps the hardest thing you will ever do.
Fighting against depression isn't a stroll in the park; it's a dogfight. But if you decide to join the fray, you can win the battle and drive depression from your mind.
If you want to have a mind free from depression, nobody can stop you.
Your emotions are a reflection of your thoughts.
When you change your thoughts, your emotions automatically change.
You don't have to battle the negative and twisted emotions echoing in your mind. Instead, you need to learn how to change the way you think, and emotions will naturally take care of themselves.
Like night follows day, when your thoughts are healthy and positive, your emotions become healthy and positive as well.
The challenge you face in depression is to change the way you think.
HOW DO YOU CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK?
How do you change the way you think? Four laws show you how to make it happen.
The Law of Positive Self-Talk states, "You change the way you think and feel by changing what you say when you talk to your mind."
If you want to change the way you feel, you are going to have to change your inner dialogue. You are going to have to talk to your mind in a different manner.
First, you must stop saying negative things. When negative words start to come out of your mouth, you must immediately stop what you are saying. Zip it up. Don't let those negative words come out because they are negative seeds that lead to more negative thoughts and negative emotions.
Second, you must start saying positive things. That is what positive self-talk is all about. The positive things you say are the seeds for a positive mind and a positive life.
If you don't stop saying negative things, and if you don't start saying positive things, then having a positive mind and a positive life will not happen. It's simply impossible to have a positive mind and positive emotions if you are constantly saying negative things. You must stop the negative self-talk and start the positive self-talk if you want to leave the Land of Depression. There is no other way.
The Law of Positive Direction states, "The wheel of change always turns in the direction of what you put into your mind." You actually push your mind in a positive direction by putting positive and healthy thoughts into your mind. If you put enough positive thoughts into your mind, you can actually create a positive brain.
You are not helpless, and your life is not hopeless. Your life instantly improves the moment you start putting good things into your mind. The simple act of reading these positive words turns the wheel of change in a positive direction, and every paragraph you read makes you into a more positive person.
The Law of Positive Focus states, "A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind."
The battle against depression is fought on the battlefield of focus. In order to break the back of depression, you will have to learn how to persistently and consistently control the focus of your mind.
The Law of Positive Change states, " When you change the things you look at, the way you look at things changes. When you change the things you talk about, the way you talk about things changes. When you change the things you think about, the way you think about things changes."
It really does matter what you look at, what you talk about, and what you think about, because all of these things change who you are and make you into a different person. You must look at positive things, talk about positive things, and think about positive things if you want to be free from depression and become a positive person.
BREAKING THE BACK OF DEPRESSION
Cognitive therapy gives you the power to break the back of depression by eliminating the twisted thinking that creates your distorted emotions. But getting rid of your cognitive distortions isn't enough. You need to go to the next level, a much higher level where there is no limit to how good your life can become. That next level can only happen if you install a positive operating system into your mind.
Simply getting rid of your negative thoughts does not automatically make you positive. Getting rid of the negative only gets you half way to where you want to go. You must install a positive operating system if you want to reach the next level and become a positive person. It's not enough to stop being negative. You need to become a positive person.
You don't need a PhD in psychology or thousands of hours of therapy to win the battle against depression and to move up to the next level. But you do need to learn some basic facts. You also need an uncomplicated strategy that is easy to use. Finally, you need power. When you know the facts, have an effective strategy, and real power, the odds shift in your favor, and there is a high probability you will win this battle. It's going to be a dogfight, but it's a fight you can win.
You have a choice. You can allow negative thinking and depression to rule your life, or you can reestablish command and control over your thoughts and push your mind in a positive direction.
It's up to you. If you want to have a mind free from depression, nobody can stop you.
To learn more about how to win the battle for a positive mind, you can read Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking by Dr. Dave.
Problems Are Inevitable - Depression Is Optional
It's time to eradicate depression from your mind. It's not going to be easy, but it's not impossible. Every day you must decide to not be depressed and take actions that move your life in a positive direction. The first step in winning the battle against depression is believing there is hope. The second step is learning to control your mental focus. The war for a positive mind is fought on the battlefield of focus. Visit Eradicate Depression to push your mental focus in a positive direction.
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Lonely But Not Alone
Depression is a lonely disease. It's not the sort of thing that you sit around and discuss with your friends. When you are depressed, you probably don't believe that you have any friends. Although depression is a lonely disease, it's important to realize that you are not alone. Millions of othe people face the same challenges, and most of them get better with treatment.
How To Do Depression
Welcome to the Land of Depression where backward thinking rules. In fact, backward thinking is the law of the land, and you actually believe that you are what you feel. You don't focus on the facts of life. Instead you focus on your feelings. If you want to know how you are doing, you look at your feelings rather than at the facts. In the Land of Depression, facts don't matter; it's feelings that count. And if the facts contradict your feelings, then you go with your feelings and ignore the facts.
Mirrors Of Your Mind
Depressed people spend too much time looking at distorted reflections in the mirrors of their mind. Depressed people are looking into the wrong mirrors. What they really need to do is to look into the mirror of God's love, a mirror that gives hope. God has a mirror that gives undistorted reflections, and his mirror is special because it has two reflections. The first reflection lets you see yourself as you really are; you get to see yourself through God's eyes of love. The second reflection lets you see what you can become when the power of God's love rolls through your heart and mind and makes you into a new person.
Can Christians Get Depressed?
Christians get depressed just like everyone else. It would be nice if spiritual belief made you immune to mood disorders and clinical depression, but that is not the case. In some instances, depression may be worse in Christians because they think that their depression reflects a lack of faith in God, which makes them feel even more depressed. If you are clinically depressed, having faith in God is not going to make the depression go away. There are certainly positive benefits from having religious faith, but curing depression is not one of them.
Depression Affirmations
Affirmations give you the power to change what is in your heart. They do more than change the way you think; they also change the way you feel. If you want to influence your emotional mind, don't argue with it. Instead overwhelm it with positive affirmations. The inner skeptic is massively susceptible to the power of positive affirmations. That is why affirmations are so valuable. You can repeat them until you overwhelm the inner skeptic and change the way you feel.
The Rest Of The Story
Eliminating the negative does not automatically make you positive. To become a positive person, you must put positive things into your mind.There is no other way to create a positive mind. You change the way you think and feel by changing what you say when you talk to your mind. If you want to change the way you feel, you are going to have to change your inner dialogue. You are going to have to talk to your mind in a different manner. You must monitor your self -talk and make sure it's positive, and if it's not positive, you must change it.
Stop Doing Depression
People who suffer from depressive illness have a different brain chemistry from those who are not depressed. The real question is how that brain chemistry came into existence. Did the depression cause the abnormal brain chemistry, or did the abnormal brain chemistry cause the depression? How you answer this question determines wether you are a victim of your brain chemistry, or if you are it's co-creator.
Can People Change?
Although my medical specialty is ophthalmic surgery, my real specialty is changing people's expectations. I take people with low expectations or no expectations, and I turn them into people with positive expectations. I get them to start believing in themselves. I teach them that they don't get what they want, they get what they expect. When people change their expectations, they become new people with a new life.
Depression Self-Talk
You have a lot of things to discuss with your mind, and everything that you say needs to be positive. If you don't like what you hear when your mind talks to you, you have the power to change the message. The problem isn't the voice; it's what the voice has to say. The Supreme Law of Change states that you can change who you are by changing what you put into your mind. Everyone has the opportunity to make their life better by putting good things into their mind. If you want to have a positive mind, you absolutely must control what goes into it and make sure that it is positive. There is no other way.
Psychology Of Depression
Depression is a command and control issue. 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 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 that you find there. My operational defnition of depression is simple. If you are not in command of your mind and you don't control the thoughts that you find there, then you have significant depression.
Positive Depression
Your brain is an affirming machine that spends its time affirming your beliefs about who you are and what you can do. Positive Thinking is actually affirmative thinking. Jesus understood this fact, and that is why he said, "As you believe, so shall it be done unto you." You don't get what you want. You get what you expect. What you affirm eventually becomes a part of your life. The problem with depression is that it is positive about things that are simply untrue, and that is why depression is so destructive. It always affirms negative things and makes your life worse.
I Would Rather Switch Than Fight
The war for a positive mind is fought on the battlefield of focus. Until you learn how to control your mental focus, you cannot win the battle for a positive mind. You have the power to change your life in an instant by changing your mental focus and putting new thoughts in your mind. This isn't about positive thinking; it's about different thinking. It's about new thoughts. If you switch your mental focus in a new positive direction, PTSD gradually loses its power, and you gain the high ground in the battle of the mind.
Outward Focus That Results In Inner Healing
If you think that you can develop a positive mind while focusing on your inner pain, you are sadly mistaken. A destructive focus never results in a constructive outcome. The name of the road to recovery is called an "Outward Focus." Inward focus makes you sick, and an outward focus starts the healing. The hardest thing for a wounded warrior to do is to stop focusing on his own wounds and to start helping others heal their wounds. When you focus on your inward pain, your life becomes a living hell full of despair, resentment, and limitations. The instant you focus on other people's pain and start helping them, your own healing begins.
Eradicate Depression
I am positive that you can win the battle against depression. Here are eight steps you can take to eradicate depression from your mind.1. Realize that you have a problem. 2. Reestablish command and control . 3. Recognize your cognitive distortions. 4. Reject your cognitive distortions. 5. Renew your mind with new thoughts. 6. Reprogram your mind with a positive operating system. 7. Radically shift your focus. 8. Repeat these steps.
Fight Depression And Anxiety
The fog of depression and anxiety is like the fog of war. It's hard to see where you are going, and even if you could see, you might not know which way to head to escape. In those hard times, it's all to easy to get disoriented and to strap yourself into the electric chair of depression.
How To Conquer Depression
The journey out of the Land of Depression is like an uphill climb that never seems to end. You just keep moving forward and climbing upward hoping that soon you will come out at the top. Driving out of the Land of Depression can be like going up the Moqi Dugway. You have to remember that if you keep on keeping on and make good choices, you will eventually make it to the top. Just because it is a long upward climb does not mean it is impossible. You have to keep moving forward and not surrender to fear and despair, and eventually you will conquer your depression.
How To Defeat Depression
What you put into your mind is critical. You cannot fill your mind with toxic waste and expect that you will somehow magically become a positive person. Putting water in a gas tank will not turn the water into gasoline. Putting toxic waste into your mind will not turn the toxic waste into positive thoughts. If you put garbage in, you get garbage out. If you put good stuff in, you get good stuff out.
How To Eliminate Depression
Do you choose depression or does depression choose you? I have never met a person who chose to be depressed. The general feeling out there is that depression just happens. I strongly disagree with that statement. Although people don't consciously choose to become depressed, they do make choices that pave the royal road to depression. The choices you make about what you put into your mind, the chemicals you use, the things you watch in the media, the conversations you have, and what you say to yourself all have a massive impact on whether you have a positive or negative mind.
Quitting Depression
I am a never quit sort of a person. Never quit is my mantra and my modus operandi. But when it comes to depression, you need to be an excellent quitter. You need to become an expert at how to send depression packing. If I was passing out blue ribbons to people who have won the battle for a positive mind and who no longer suffer with depression, the ribbon would say, "I am a quitter". This badge of honor would be reserved for people who stop doing depression. Anyone quitting depression has accomplished something major, and they deserve our respect, recognition, and admiration.
MINI LECTURES AND EBOOKS FROM DEPRESSION UNI
Zero Tolerance To Negative Thinking
LEARN HOW TO STOP DOING DEPRESSION AND HOW TO WIN THE BATTLE FOR A POSITIVE MIND. The challenge you face in depression is to change the way you think. If you want to change the way you think and feel, you are going to have to change your inner dialogue. You are going to have to talk to your mind in a different manner. The battle for a positive mind is fought on the battlefield of focus. In order to break the back of depression, you will have to learn how to persistently and consistently control your mental focus. Zero Tolerance to Negative Thinking is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. SEND DEPRESSION PACKING TODAY.
When will I get better? Improvement is only a thought away. The instant I think positive thoughts is when it happens.
I don't get what I want in life. I get what I expect. That's why Jesus said, "As you believe, so shall it be done unto you."
When God created my mind, He designed it to run most efficiently using a Positive Operating System. Positive thinking is the natural software for my mind.
No amount to positive thinking will take something bad and turn it into something good. Nevertheless, positive thinking will turn it into something better.
Maximum Strength Positive Thinking
MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER TODAY WITH MAXIMUM STRENGTH POSITIVE THINKING. You have a lot of things to discuss with your mind, and Maximum Strength Positive Thinking tells you what you should be talking about. If you don't like what you hear when your mind talks to you, you have the power to change the message. Although the wheel of change turns slowly, it always turns in the direction of what you put into your mind. Maximum Strength Positive Thinking is now available in ebook Format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. INVEST IN A NEW LIFE TODAY AND PUT MAXIMUM STRENGTH POSITIVE THINKING INTO YOUR MIND.
Maximum Strength Positive Thinking - What to say when your mind talks to you. What to say when you talk to your mind.
When I make a living, I focus on survival. When I make a life, I focus on my dreams. Seven principles help me make a life.
I can change who I am by changing what I put into my mind. When I change my mind, I change my life.
Owner's Manual For Your Mind
LEARN HOW TO MAKE A LIFE AND HOW TO RUN YOUR MIND . Don't timidly tiptoe through life waiting to go for your dreams. You have only one life. The clock is ticking, there are no timeouts, and there is nothing to wait for. Today is the only day you can make your dreams come true. Seize the day. The Owner's Manual for your mind is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. MAKE YOUR LIFE INTO WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE TODAY.
Positive thinking is the right type of thinking. It's the natural software for my mind.
My life is mine alone, and that is sufficient authority to grant me permission to live my dreams.
Whatever I accomplish, I accomplish it first in my mind. Whatever I become, I become it first in my mind.
Programmer's Manual For Your Mind
LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM YOUR MIND WITH A POSITIVE OPERATING SYSTEM. If you don’t program your mind, other people will. Whether you like it or not, you are engaged in mortal mental combat, and your mind is ground zero. If you let your culture, the media, the government, and politicians do the programming, you will be in real trouble. You will not be running your own mind. They will be running it. You will not be living your dreams. You will be living theirs.The Programmer's Manual for Your Mind is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. START REPROGRAMMING YOUR MIND TODAY.
I will live as if I am a great person. I will practice being great each day of my life.
Negative and limiting thoughts create a chemical imbalance in my brain and make me feel bad. Positive and unlimited thoughts restore the normal chemical balance, and I feel good once again.
The formula for a positive mind, and the method for installing a Positive Operating System.
Real Power: Maxingout On God's Love
LEARN HOW TO MAX OUT ON GOD'S LOVE. When your mind is full of thoughts consistent with God's love, your thoughts are healthy, and your mind is exactly the way God means for it to be. When your heart is full of emotions consistent with God's love, your emotions are healthy, and they are exactly the way God means for them to be. Real Power: Maxing Out on God's Love is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. REAL POWER IS AVAILABLE TODAY WHEN YOU MAX OUT ON GOD'S LOVE.
Opportunity hides in plain sight, and until I have a dream, I can't see the opportunities that are right in front of my eyes.
I am still writing the story of my life and can make it into anything I want.
There is no limit to how good my life can become when I put positive things into my mind.
When I say yes to life, opportunities come so fast from so many different direction, it's impossible to take advantage of them all.
No matter what my age, I can still make my dreams come true. No matter how many times I have failed in the past, I can still make my dreams come true.
Positive Christian Self-Talk
GET IN AGREEMENT WITH GOD ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR LIFE. Jesus said, "As you believe, so shall it be done unto you." Jesus was talking about positive expectations. You don't get what you want, you get what you expect. It doesn't matter if your expectations are positive or negative, you still get what you expect. If you want positive self-talk to work its miracle in your life, all of your self-talk must be forged in the fires of positive expectations. Positive Christian Self-Talk is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. JUMP INTO GOD'S OCEAN OF LOVE AND HAVE A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE TODAY.
When my beliefs are right, my world is right. My beliefs are the single most liberating or limiting factor in my life.
God placed dreams in my heart as a beacon that guides me through life. Those dreams get me up in the morning and carry me through the day. They keep me going when the going gets tough.
My beliefs create my personal world and give my life its meaning. They create the world as I believe it to be. It's my unique reality and is the only world I will ever know. I created it and must live in it.
My thoughts are important, because they determine where I go. My dreams don't happen by themselves. I must think and act them into existence.
A new beginning creates a new ending. I can change any area of my life. I am not a finished product. I am a work in progress.
Quantum Self-Talk
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO MAKE A QUANTUM LEAP TO THE NEXT LEVEL. Repeat quantum self-talk until your mind repeats it back to you. The power of repetition is immense, and when your mind starts repeating quantum self-talk back to you, hang on tight, because you are ready to make a quantum leap to the next level. You have thousands of quantum leaps to make, and quantum self-talk is a great place to start. Quantum Self-Talk is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. DON'T WAIT FOR YOUR LIFE TO IMPROVE. MAKE A QUANTUM LEAP TO A NEW LEVEL TODAY.
I change my mind in an instant of time. At the moment of change there is a shift in my beliefs about who I am, and what I can do.
Focus gives me powerful leverage over my mind. When I focus on a thought, it forces my mind to look in the direction of that thought.
Change finally happens when I am ready to change. Change takes a long time, because I take so much time getting ready.
Positive change isn't a matter of the will. Rather, it's a matter of being willing to do whatever it takes.
Change first happens in my mind, and then it happens in my life. It's impossible to make a positive change without fist changing the way I think.
Positive Self-Talk Yellow Book
BANISH THE WORD IMPOSSIBLE FROM YOUR MIND. Many people believe change is impossible. Most of the time they are confusing personality with behavior. The basic human personality is relatively constant over time, but behavior can and does change. Personal change happens when people change the way they think. I have numerous patients formerly addicted to meth, cocaine, heroine, and alcohol, who escaped their addictions without ever going to rehab. They simply arrived at a point where they no longer wanted to be prisoners of their addictions. They changed their belief about who they are and what they can do, and they became a different person who was chemical free. Positive Self-Talk Yellow Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK AND FEEL TODAY.
Change happens when I think differently that I have always thought and act different than I have always acted. New thoughts and actions are necessary.
No matter how long it takes, or how many times I fail, I will make my dreams come true. I am an Unstoppable, Consistently Positive, Endlessly Persistent Doer of Dreams.
The small challenges of life are the training ground for the great ones. If I remain faithful in small things, I experience a tidal wave of success that carries me to destinations far beyond my early limited dreams.
Positive Self-Talk Purple Book
IT'S TIME TO START LIVING AS IF YOU ARE A GREAT PERSON. Living small serves no great purpose. Living as if you are a great person is a powerful idea that changes lives, and those who take it seriously change their world. Living as if you are great means you live as if your dreams are possible and work each day to make them happen. You act as if you cannot fail. If you ever become great, it will be because you think great thoughts, repeat great self-talk, have great expectations, and act as if you cannot fail. Positive Self-Talk Purple Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO START LIVING AS IF YOU ARE A GREAT PERSON.
Every time a negative thought enters my mind I take positive action to eliminate that thought.
When a negative thought pops into my mind, I repeat positive self-talk and push my inner voice in a positive direction and restore my positive perspective.
Failure is never final unless I quit. Failure is a test, and if I keep moving in the direction of my dreams, I pass the test
Positive thoughts are hard to capture and keep in my mind. They flash by at the speed of light and then they are gone.
Positive Self-Talk Red Book
IMAGINE HOW GOOD YOUR LIFE WOULD BECOME IF YOU HAD A CONSISTENTLY POSITIVE MIND. A persistently positive focus creates a consistently positive mind. The same is true of your self-talk. It must be persistent, positive, and specific to have maximum impact. Lack of persistentce has laid more dreams to rest in the cemetery of failure than any other cause. There is zero chance that you will succeed on your first attempt. If your dreams are great, you will fail again and again on your way to the top. Positive Self-Talk Red Book is now available at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. DEVELOP A PERSISTENTLY POSITIVE FOCUS TODAY WITH POSITIVE SELF-TALK FROM DR. DAVE.
I can change who I am by changing what I put into my mind. What I put into my mind is important because it changes who I am.
Excellence is the normal state of affairs in the human heart. God programmed excellence into my heart so that I would feel good when I live an excellent life.
Limitations do not come on tablets of stone from the hand of God. They are a choice, and I choose to not have any.
Limiting beliefs are a disguised form of negation. They are a way that I say no to life while pretending that life is saying no to me. Limitations are plausible self-deceptions. They are prefabricated excuses for every failure to be what I want to be and to do what I want to do.
Life is a laboratory for testing the limitations found in my mind. Although limitations appear real, appearances are deceiving. The only way to find out if they are real is to test them.
Positive Self-Talk Silver Book
LEARN TO SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF THE MIND. Your brain speaks to you in its own language, and if you speak to it in the same way, it immediately responds in a powerful fashion. That’s why change proceeds most rapidly when you talk to yourself using the language of the mind. If you don’t speak the language of the mind, you may as well stop talking until you learn it. Positive Self-Talk Silver Book is now available in ebook format at Amazon, iTunes, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. YOUR MIND IS WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU, SO SEND IT A POSITIVE MESSAGE TODAY.
In the world of forgiveness, what goes around comes around. The forgiveness that I send to others comes multiplied back to me.
Resentment is a form of mental toxic waste, and the most effective method of removing it is the opposite from what I would expect. Instead of fighting against it, I must let it go.
Each negative thought weighs a psychological ton and carrying around a load of negativity is an unbearable burden.
Four laws of focus give me the leverage I need to have a consistently positive mind.
I repeat my positive thoughts until my mind repeats them back to me. I hijack my own mind and fly it to my own positive destination.
Read An eBook And Save A Tree
Save A Tree Bookstore
Although I like the feel of a paper book in my hand, I love trees even more. When people purchase an eBook, they actually save trees and save money as well. Ebooks are less expensive and have no negative impact on the environment. All of Dr. Dave's books are available at Save A Tree Bookstore. Visit the bookstore today and start putting good things into your mind. It's easy to fill your mind with positive things using eBooks. No matter where you are or what you are doing, you can pull out your smart phone or tablet and start reading. You can even use electronic highlighters and make annotations in your eBooks just like paper books.
