Practical Spirituality - Healing Depression I

In our last article we gave instruction on how to deal with anger. The same techniques can be applied to grief, anxiety, and any root emotion associated with stress. The techniques should work with you whether you have an explosive type of anger, or if you are one of those people who just hold anger in, and allow it to slowly wear away at your stomach, liver, heart and other parts of your body. Through much research Aryuvedic practitioners have discovered, and have reported, that a large percent of illness is caused by stress. Internalized anger, or anger turned inward, is a source of stress that is very much related to depression.

Many people in the world today, especially in the west, suffer a great deal from depression