Education is the surest way to get rid of depression
Everyone has experienced depression. According to the definition depression is a mental disorder, the essence of which is the suppression of mental activity, mainly in its emotional-volitional component.
Without a doubt, depression is a disease that requires intervention and help from specialists. But what if we approach the issue of getting rid of depression from the point of view of psychotherapy and philosophy.
Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist, teacher and founder of analytical psychology, speaks unequivocally about the means of getting rid of depression. It is a pity that the real pearls of knowledge left by such geniuses of past eras as Carl Jung remain without due attention from the broad masses of people.
In his comments to the ancient philosophical treatise “Tai I Jin” in the book “The Secret of the Golden Flower”, Carl Jung says that just like the similarity of human bodies, regardless of race, the human psyche has a common substrate, which he called the collective unconscious. Next, he considers two parts of consciousness, one of which represents the instincts, the other - the developed cognitive part of consciousness.
According to Carl Jung, he repeatedly observed in his practice how people who had achieved a lot in life and received everything they wanted fell under the power of neurosis, which turned them into chronic crybabies and finally finished them off. Meanwhile, Carl Jung associates this with an overstrain of the conscious part, which, as a result of its development, has become so alien and unresponsive to the human unconscious that the latter has moved away from the former, breaking the harmony of the duality of consciousness.
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Here it is appropriate to give an analogy with one of the concepts of philosophy described by Carlos Castaneda in his books and called “nagualism”. Nagualism speaks of the tonal - the part of human awareness that deals with everyday life, describing and maintaining a clear and strong connection between human perception and the description of the world. It is thanks to the tonal that a person, according to the teachings of nagualism, does not go crazy, giving the things of the world a clearly defined order.
Carlos Castaneda writes that a person's tonal can be weak and strong. The weak leads a person to decline, the strong leads to increased awareness. Nagualism teaches that there is a correct tonal that allows a person to become a seer. The correct tonal is a symbiosis of the gross part of the tonal, associated with actions and instincts, and the complex, more developed part, associated with decisions and judgments and the ability to think. According to Castaneda, the imbalance of these parts makes the tonal fragile and weak.
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Carl Jung says the same thing: a developed and complex part of consciousness, when rejected by its unconscious part, causes neurosis and overstrain in a person.
Depression, among other things, is a loss of direction in life. Carl Jung wrote that the elimination of neurosis of consciousness occurred as soon as a person had a concentration on an idea that was comprehensive in comparison with the one where he experienced the neurosis.
In other words, a person rises above the state of depression due to his natural tendency to explore. Learning new ideas, he soars above the problem and observes it from a distance. At the same time, the problem does not go away, but its influence weakens many times over. So a person from a distance and height, perceiving new ideas, sees a way out of the current situation.
To put it more clearly, a person is protected in learning because learning sets clear guidelines in life. Enlightened, a person leaves the place of depression and continues on his way. He gains strength and, embraced by the spirit of exploration, moves towards the Unknown. From the top of the Unknown, he sees that behind the clouds of depression the sun of Truth is shining, the rays of which make the Heart beat in it and fill it with Life and the thirst for knowledge. Depression can't get there.
So said Carl Gustav Jung
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