The holiday season has been here again – and gone. Time to get back to the workaday routine of everyday life and, in much of the U.S., survive the cold weather until spring gets here again. For one in five people, that means the winter blues, also called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
You don’t have to live in the northern states to be affected by SAD, either. This problem happens because the sun is tilted away from the earth, so we get fewer rays of sunshine during this time of year.
Before you start thinking that it’s all weather-related though, and there is nothing you can do about it, think again. You don’t have to spend the entire winter eating too many carbs, sleeping too much, and exercising too little until the sun shines again. Believe it or not, there is a way to treat SAD – without travelling south of the Equator, and without medications.
Even though the weather causes a tendency to feel “down,” the real reason that many of us get depressed during this time is that we start to think negative thoughts. Once we begin to think these thoughts, we feel a little sad, which often sends us into a vicious cycle of thinking more sad thoughts and becoming even sadder.
The key to breaking free of SAD-related depression is learning to break the cycle of negative thinking. Sure, you can take pills and experience whatever side effects these have on your body, but medicine doesn’t solve the problem. By using Neuro-Linguistic Programming, however, you can solve the problem – yourself!
By using the NLP “Flash” technique, clients learn to become relaxed and focus on pleasant thoughts. When their minds start to think unpleasant thoughts, they learn how to banish these thoughts in a flash and to focus on the positive once again.
Soon, they find themselves almost completely incapable of thinking negative thoughts. Because they can’t think negative thoughts any more, they free themselves from the endless cycle of sinking further and further into depression. Are you ready to join them and enjoy the freedom yourself?
