Depression, negativity, and unhappiness is a serious condition affecting millions of people's lives across the globe almost like a plague. Many times someone suffering from depression needs powerful medications or some sort of depression therapy or treatment is necessary to turn depression around. You can take some of the power back into your own hands regarding how you feel about depression.

You can control your own position and outlook concerning depression by practicing awareness and presence. Little by little, with practice you can turn your feeling hopeless, feeling powerless, and feeling depressed and overwhelmed into a feeling of optimism, hope, and happiness. Practice this little depression treatment exercise a little bit every day and see how your depression changes.

Awareness and presence can be a perfect depression remedy you can use at home to compliment to the depression medications or treatments you are currently using. This practice can also be a perfect compliment to alternative depression treatments. For that matter, we can improve how we feel about any condition or disease we are suffering from, such as depression by being aware of what we are feeling and finding the way to turn it around and feel good.

Everything starts within us, every treatment, every choice, every decision about how you feel or deal with depression or other health conditions or diseases. Every choice lies somewhere inside us, every answer lies somewhere inside us. You can feel better about depression if you decide to.

When you practice and develop being present, and using your faculty of awareness, an amazing thing happens, expansion and breathing room surrounds whatever condition or emotion like depression, unhappiness, or any other negative feeling we are feeling at this moment. We can temporarily step out of the drama and worrying about the past or future and just observe depression and feel how we feel about it. We can experience a moment of just being with and experiencing an emotion like depression, without getting consumed and carried away with it. You can just witness without judgment, how the depression or negativity floods over you, like something that is not completely a part of you. It is alive only as long as we feed it.

The depression is like a little monster, and what the depression feeds on is negativity. We feed the fire of depression with our negative thoughts and emotions. The cycle of feeling depressed and unhappy will never stop until we can turn our thoughts around, and find some soothing thoughts or some thoughts that bring hope or make us feel just a little bit better, help us see our way out of depression. You can continue to live with your depression and feel hopeless or you can make the decision to be depressed but hopeful.

You can turn it all around. I am not saying it is bad to experience depression or so called negative emotions. Every person on the planet experiences them and they are a natural part of life. I am just saying we need to realize when we experience those emotions such as depression or unhappiness, they are just signaling us that something is wrong or out of balance and to try to turn it around.

This is an excerpt from the author of ' The Power of Now ', Eckhart Tolle's fascinating and insightful new book ' A New Earth- Awakening to Your Life's Purpose'. This simple realization may help you reconnect with your inner self and guidance and look at depression, unhappiness and negativity in a new light. It may give you a new perspective that helps you let go of depression, unhappiness and negativity or realize it is not truly a part of you and you can improve how you feel about anything by practicing better feeling thoughts.

The Joy of Being

"Unhappiness or negativity is a disease on out planet". What pollution is on the outer level is negativity on the inner. It is everywhere, not just in places where people don't have enough, but even more so where they have more than enough. Is that surprising? No. The affluent world is even more deeply identified with form, more lost in content, more trapped in ego.

People believe themselves to be dependent on what happen for their happiness, that is to say, dependent on form. They don't realize that what happens is the most unstable thing in the universe. It changes constantly. They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn't have or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that is always already here, that lies beyond what is happening or not happening, beyond form. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper that any form and untouched by time.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. "That joy cannot come to you- ever. It emanated from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are."

- Eckhart Tolle, "A New Earth- Awakening to Your Life's Purpose"

Read these words on being present with depression and unhappiness a few times and let it sit with you, then come back to it and read it again in a few days and see if you have any more thoughts or insights. Practice being present with your depression instead of being the victim and reacting to it. Practice finding better feeling thoughts and ideas instead of stewing in your feeling of unhappiness and depression. If you are not in control of your life, your mind, your thoughts- Who is?

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Do our thoughts lead us into Depression? Is Depression Anger turned Inwards? Could practicing better feeling thoughts relieve my depression and anxiety? How will I ever achieve happiness and success? Will I find my soul mate? Am I practicing depression or happiness? Is there anything I can do about my anxiety and depression? What is the Law of Attraction?

This is just a taste of the fascinating two part interview “The Power of Positive Thinking” Larry King recently conducted on CNN Larry King Live with a panel of what I thought were absolutely brilliant guests. It dealt with and beautifully answered the questions above and other powerful questions. The panel also talk about the power of our thoughts and emotions and how big a role they actually do play in our everyday lives. They touched on such topics as depression, health, happiness, money, our attitudes, and the law of attraction.

I was quite thrilled to see such intriguing and leading edge health and wellness theories circulating on national TV. I would definitely recommend reading the transcripts from both shows. These are some of the most powerful, simple self help suggestions for anxiety and depression, from some of today’s most innovative and successful motivational coaches and speakers, to help you coach yourself out of depression, anxiety, and fear and into success and happiness!

The Power of Positive Thoughts Aired November 2, 2006 - 21:00 ET

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LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Tonight, unhappy with your love, your job, your life, not enough money? Use your head. You can think yourself into a lot better you. Positive thoughts can transform can attract the good things you know you want. Sound far-fetched? Think again. It's supported by science.

Ahead, an hour that can change the way you think about the world and alter your life forever. It's next on LARRY KING LIVE.

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KING: Good evening.

A special edition of LARRY KING LIVE tonight; we're calling the program beyond the power of positive thinking, how to change your life, how to use the power of your imagination, and mine, to create what you want in your life.

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The Power of Positive Thinking Aired November 16, 2006 - 21:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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LARRY KING, CNN HOST (voice-over): Tonight, want to find true love, make more money, have the life of your dreams? Then think about it. That's right. The power of your thoughts can improve your life. Sound unthinkable? Well, science says there's something to it, so engage your brain for an amazing hour that could transform your world and help you live happily ever after.

It's all next on LARRY KING LIVE.

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KING: Welcome to the second in our series of how to go beyond the power of positive thinking and use it to change your life. Since last week's show was such a success, we decided to dive right back into the topic tonight with a different set of guests. They'll tell us how we can use the power of your imagination and mind to create what we want in our lives and how science supports it.

Here are the links to the full transcripts of Larry King Live "The Power of Positive Thinking", aired November 2 & 16, 2006. We highly recommend them on your journey from depression to happiness!

Part One of Larry King Live:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/02/lkl.01.html

Part Two:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/16/lkl.01.html

Choosing Health, Did You Ever Deliberately Commit To Being Healthy?

New Year's comes around once a year. It's the time to take a look at ourselves and clean out our old useless ideas, perceptions, and habits in order to make room for new growth and vitality, talents and skills, goals or lifestyle changes. Maybe you struggle with your weight and want to finally lose weight or start an exercise program. Maybe you would like to look better, feel better, have more energy and feel healthier. Maybe you would like to change or stop a bad habit like smoking. You may be looking to overcome some issue like depression.

Maybe you want to feel better about a condition that has plagued you for years, or just want to make a change for a better you. You might want to switch to a new diet, try yoga, or join a gym. Maybe you would like to change your body and gain some muscle and weight. It doesn't matter what condition you may want to change whether it be physical or emotional issue such as: lose weight, gain weight, learn a new skill, have a better relationship, earn or save more money, enjoy better health, take charge of your emotions, leave depression behind….. You just need to take the first step and make a conscious commitment.

I have been reading a simple, wonderful and interesting book my girlfriend started for her new year's resolution, called "A Year of Living Consciously, 365 Daily Inspirations For Creating a Life of Passion and Purpose" by Gay Hendricks. It is about making those conscious choices that lead to change. The following is an excerpt from the book.

"The journey of living consciously begins with a single moment of commitment, saying yes to the impulse within you that wants to grow, to expand, to embrace your largest possible self, to make your largest possible contribution to the world.

Saying yes does not mean you know how to handle each moment of the journey- and it certainly does not mean you ( or anyone else) know how the journey will turn out. What you do when you say yes to the desire to live a more conscious life is to create a field of possibility around you and within you. As a child, my obesity was a problem my family tried to help me with-from special diets to experimental growth-hormone injections. I found myself in my twenties still struggling with the same problem. One magic day I realized I had never made my own commitment to having a healthy body, so I took a vow to get the weight off- no matter what it took. Within a month, I'd lost almost thirty pounds, with seventy more coming off over the next year. It was never easy, but it had never been possible before. Now twenty-five years later - 6" 1' and 190 rather than 6"1' and 320, where I'd started- I'm more sure than ever that it was the first step that did it. That field of possibility, opened by thousands of people for thousands of years, often has the effect of making life seem richer and more exciting, but always know that the field was opened by your willingness to take that first step."

So whatever your challenge or obstacle may be that you are facing in your life right now, we challenge you to make that commitment for yourself to improve your relationship with it. Commit yourself to making a change. Commit yourself to health. Commit yourself to losing weight. Commit yourself to journeying from depression to happiness. Make an investment in yourself and commit to you. Buy or save for that item or book that is going to help improve your life. Stop for just once, and change your focus from what's going on outside of yourself, to what is going on with you and what you can do to help yourself. What can you commit to better yourself? What are you committed to well being or self defeat? The choice is yours, make a positive commitment for yourself right now. Only you can make that choice.