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extreme sadness. Psychology and psychiatry take this “common sense” assumption for granted, and base many of their theories on it, although it is not a research-validated fact.
For instance, think of a time when you may have felt depressed for a significant period of time. Likely, before you came to feel disheartened, you first lost your appetite, had no interest in activities that made you happy, couldn’t get out of bed, you were unable to sleep or had restless, non-restorative sleep and felt constantly fatigued and drained of energy. This was a loss of vitality. Naturally, you became sad ABOUT the loss of vitality and the doctor prescribed you medication to dull your sadness. As a result, you may have been living a numb life that lacked vitality. Of course, to consider depression as loss of vitality or life-energy would make it a spiritual illness, which traditional forms of medicine around the world know as ”shen-losing-its-home” (Taoist-based Chinese Medicine), “will or power-loss” (Dine spirituality), or ”soul-loss” (Siberian
shamanism). A continued experience of this state causes feelings of powerlessness, anxiety and stress, which, alone, accounts for 75% to 90% of all doctor visits.
The understanding that depression is a spiritual disease is not limited to remote forms of traditional medicine. Rooted in the Greek word “psych”, which means “soul” or “spirit”, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatry were meant to be spiritual approaches to healing. Yet, paradoxically, they have come to deny these spiritual aspects, reducing the living, breathing person to a faceless statistic, and promoting the idea that the SPIRIT OF LIFE can be replaced by a few chemical compounds.
6. How Does Esotherapy Heal Trauma And Other Emotional Imprinting Events?
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