Depression into Expression

August 4th, 2010

Chronically depressed? I know you’ve tried everything and nothing works, right? I want to share with you that my life illustrates the essence of transformation. Like the lotus growing in the mud, I have used my own emotional dysfunction to move through depressed states of mind, anxiety, and inhibiting barriers as the growing edge of discovery into new and different ways of being. My story, not unlike many of yours, exemplifies how we all can move beyond the rigid molds of mechanized conditioning that repress the genuine spirit of our essential nature.

One of my tasks as an Expression Coach is mirroring people’s habitual movement styles – the way they breathe, sit, stand, walk and talk to understand, embody and reflect back to them how their bodies express their state of mind. This process indicated that the vast majority of us do not live in our body, we live in our heads –thinking thousands of thoughts every day and most of them are negative. This chronic, conditioned tendency would make anyone depressed!

Tense thoughts create tense postures. It is the habit of ‘sameness’ living life in repetitive patterns of behavior with little variation depresses and ages us more quickly than anything else. For example, a depressed our posture; contracted chest, rounded shoulders, head dropped forward, sustains chronic depression and the debilitating effects of inertia and sedentary decline.

On top of this, there are few, if any, outlets in our society that healthy, vital release of repressed emotions. Most therapeutic intervention is often long, costly and aimed just where the problem isn’t – namely the head. Lots of talk and prescriptions are the common treatment for depression. Trying to suppress or discuss depression isn’t necessarily the most effective approach to solving the problem.

So what’s the secret of freeing the debilitating effects of depression? Change your physiology and change your emotional state. I have developed a simple, fun, non-drug intervention that exercises a dynamic range of feeling expression while rolling and bouncing on different size balls. I know this probably sounds ridiculously silly to your mental mind, but, hang in there. Freeing the holding patterns in your muscles with  breath, sound, and movement while rolling and bobbling on a ball unleashes the production of endorphins – the chemical that releases the energy of pure pleasure and joy.

How is this possible? Ten minutes of emotive breathing and humming with vigorous bouncing fallowed by rest, balances the distribution of vital energy into all the different systems of your body. On the upward thrust, being in the ‘free flight’ of the bounce, you become weightless for a fraction of a second. As the trillions of cells in your body are pitted against the earth’s gravitational pull, your entire cellular network loosens up and is aerated with heightened full-spectrum oxygenated energy. This means that all structural, emotional stresses and mental pressure are eliminated at once.

In the downward pressure of the bounce, massive toxic waste is being flushed out of the cells and circulation flows with increased vigor. Natural opiates are also produced that super-charges vitality. Nothing beats the embodiment of passionate aliveness to enhance cellular rejuvenation.

This simple bobbling activity on the ball helps to release and balance a synergistic flow of emotive chemistry – the vast storehouse of vital energy and the creative power of your body’s wisdom that knows perfectly well how to transform your health, vitality and personal power. Reclaiming a joyfulness of spirit on the Ball is a great medicinal and therapeutic means to quicken the healing response and inspire lasting happiness.

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