Depression can be an opportunity for growth in disguise, it can be short lived or progressively intense for longer periods of time, but one thing we should try to avoid is medicating it without first trying to discover what it symbolizes.

In much of today’s modern and Westernized culture we look for solutions. We isolate and classify every bit of information we encounter rather than looking at things in terms of a larger perspective. When it comes to physical, emotional or mental discomfort this has come to mean looking for simple solutions to whatever ails us. If you get a headache, take some aspirin. If you get depressed, go to the doctor and he/she will give you some ‘anti-depressants’.

Treating symptoms rather than looking deeper to root causes or at the image of whole mind-body health tends to… treat symptoms and little else. Symptoms are the body’s way of telling us that it needs something it’s not getting, that it’s getting too much of something, or that it’s fighting off an infection, in which case symptoms can help us determine what it is that will assist the body in its fight.

When we get the flu or a cold we sometimes find that we suddenly begin craving juice and things with vitamin C. Sometimes when we’re ill we lose our appetites in order to be able to focus all the body’s energy on fighting the infection. We use a huge amount of resources during food digestion. Lack of appetite is a

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