Mother Nature Taking Care of You

 

All We Need Is Love

As we celebrate the month of love, if everyone in your house is healthy, consider sharing hugs with each other this month.

A warm embrace reduces stress, pain, depression, anxiety, dementia, blood pressure, anger. A touch increases confidence, security, mood, sleep, attention span. A caress calms the brain. A squeeze slows the heart beat. Keep spreading love.

Encouraging Curiosity

Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? The person that asks a thousand questions drives you crazy - right...before you loose your patience, know that they are practicing the gift of curiosity - the desire to find answers or learn. We are born curious. When we encourage curiosity we receive gifts of closeness, decreased anger, increased understanding, problem solving, humility, boredom relief, and elimination of the risk of selfishness. Give yourself and those around you permission to be creative.

Source: Murray Bowen, Patti Roscoe and Associates, Allina health

Notice the Good

One remedy for depression - for every mistake you spot in even the best works of others and yourself -notice all that is GOOD with your work and the achievement of others. Source:  verywellmind

Watch Out for Depression

                                              Introjective depression occurs when a person feels that they have failed to meet their own standards or the standards of important others and that therefore they are failures.  Introjective depression arises from a harsh, unrelenting, highly critical superego that creates feelings of worthlessness, guilt and a sense of having failure.  A person with this depression experiences intense fears of losing approval, recognition and love from a desired object.  Source: National Institute of Health; Huffington Post

Caring for the Caregiver

                                    

If you are caring for a loved one, remember to take care of yourself.  Monitor yourself for depression - anaclitic and introjective depression. Anaclitic depression involves a person who feels dependent upon relationships with others and who essentially grieves over the threatened or actual loss of those relationships.  Anaclitic depression is caused by the disruption of a caregiving relationship with a primary object and is characterized by feelings of helplessness and weakness.  A person with anaclitic depression experiences intense fears of abandonment and desperately struggles to maintain direct physical contact with the need-gratifying object.

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12626134; huffington post