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	<title>Comments on: Depression: How You Label Determines How You Feel</title>
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		<title>By: Konstantin</title>
		<link>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/01/23/depression-how-you-label-determines-how-you-feel/comment-page-1/#comment-63747</link>
		<dc:creator>Konstantin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim,
as man who passed through a lot of depressions, i can share some experience.
I&#039;m form european part of Russia, Moscow, so depression is one of the common   state here, especially during criss period, and because of short day light time in winter.

Morning 
0. After wake up and before stand up. 5 minutes of meaningless laughing. Or if its hard for you, gratitude training.
1. Cat like stretching in bed
2. Morning exercises
3. Deep and intense breathing.
4. contrast(2-3 temperature cycles) shower, finishing with cold water.

During day
Sure that what we think is determines our mood and emotions, so I modify &quot;The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment&quot; in this way:
-Be aware of what are you thinking about. If you complaint to others, thinking negative about situation, or beat yourself -- change wrist.
!But if you immediately change your vision on situation, make compliment to yourself or feel gratitude like in &quot;gratitude training&quot; -- wrist is remains same.

After work, before supper.
1. good hot shower, to washout workload of mind and body, and few second in cold water to refresh all systems.
2. If you don&#039;t pray before food, feel gratitude for yourself that you fetch/prepare it ))

Before sleep
1.You can do like in article &quot;Relax Like A Pro&quot; or if you not ready for such steps, drink small amount of hot milk with honey.
2.Try to count all great things which happened with you during day and/or all great things which you have done during day.
3.Also feel that next day will be awesome!

During week will be good to make any kind of fitness or dancing, to refresh mind and body. And get some kind of eustress.

In critical situation(and this greatly helps me) make some kind of catharsis:
[]loud gibberish(speak with friend on language which you don&#039;t know) about all problems and bastards, which you know
[]beating pillows(alone or in company), with soundtrack. Rammstein is good for this, but use your preferences
[]Osho catharsis meditations: dynamic meditation, kundalini meditation, no mind meditation.

This help to me, and to most of my friends all over the Russia. Hope that it will be useful for 4HWW/blog readers.

Konstantin</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim,<br />
as man who passed through a lot of depressions, i can share some experience.<br />
I&#8217;m form european part of Russia, Moscow, so depression is one of the common   state here, especially during criss period, and because of short day light time in winter.</p>
<p>Morning<br />
0. After wake up and before stand up. 5 minutes of meaningless laughing. Or if its hard for you, gratitude training.<br />
1. Cat like stretching in bed<br />
2. Morning exercises<br />
3. Deep and intense breathing.<br />
4. contrast(2-3 temperature cycles) shower, finishing with cold water.</p>
<p>During day<br />
Sure that what we think is determines our mood and emotions, so I modify &#8220;The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment&#8221; in this way:<br />
-Be aware of what are you thinking about. If you complaint to others, thinking negative about situation, or beat yourself &#8212; change wrist.<br />
!But if you immediately change your vision on situation, make compliment to yourself or feel gratitude like in &#8220;gratitude training&#8221; &#8212; wrist is remains same.</p>
<p>After work, before supper.<br />
1. good hot shower, to washout workload of mind and body, and few second in cold water to refresh all systems.<br />
2. If you don&#8217;t pray before food, feel gratitude for yourself that you fetch/prepare it ))</p>
<p>Before sleep<br />
1.You can do like in article &#8220;Relax Like A Pro&#8221; or if you not ready for such steps, drink small amount of hot milk with honey.<br />
2.Try to count all great things which happened with you during day and/or all great things which you have done during day.<br />
3.Also feel that next day will be awesome!</p>
<p>During week will be good to make any kind of fitness or dancing, to refresh mind and body. And get some kind of eustress.</p>
<p>In critical situation(and this greatly helps me) make some kind of catharsis:<br />
[]loud gibberish(speak with friend on language which you don&#8217;t know) about all problems and bastards, which you know<br />
[]beating pillows(alone or in company), with soundtrack. Rammstein is good for this, but use your preferences<br />
[]Osho catharsis meditations: dynamic meditation, kundalini meditation, no mind meditation.</p>
<p>This help to me, and to most of my friends all over the Russia. Hope that it will be useful for 4HWW/blog readers.</p>
<p>Konstantin</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim, great post and I can say with 100% certainty I experience the major peaks and valleys you mention in this post.

I&#039;ve been following your blog only for a few months now and have definitely been very impressed with lifestyle design. Now that I have a chance to comb through older posts, this one hits home the most....

I&#039;ve definitely had days where I wanted to do nothing more than hide under the covers in bed. Hearing that this feeling is normal is a great relief. (I don&#039;t actually sleep all day or try to, but the feeling is there sometimes)

Anyways, thanks for the post and the advice, like most of your other posts I find them extremely relevant and useful.

Cheers!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim, great post and I can say with 100% certainty I experience the major peaks and valleys you mention in this post.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been following your blog only for a few months now and have definitely been very impressed with lifestyle design. Now that I have a chance to comb through older posts, this one hits home the most&#8230;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve definitely had days where I wanted to do nothing more than hide under the covers in bed. Hearing that this feeling is normal is a great relief. (I don&#8217;t actually sleep all day or try to, but the feeling is there sometimes)</p>
<p>Anyways, thanks for the post and the advice, like most of your other posts I find them extremely relevant and useful.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
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		<title>By: Sweeney</title>
		<link>http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2008/01/23/depression-how-you-label-determines-how-you-feel/comment-page-1/#comment-56563</link>
		<dc:creator>Sweeney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Women lie, men lie, numbers don&#039;t.

Logic is hard.. I&#039;ve been struggling for too long.. thank you for giving me all the tools to succeed.

I&#039;ve been recently labeled bipolar.. and i&#039;m just fine with that :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Women lie, men lie, numbers don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Logic is hard.. I&#8217;ve been struggling for too long.. thank you for giving me all the tools to succeed.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been recently labeled bipolar.. and i&#8217;m just fine with that :D</p>
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		<title>By: Garrett Daun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Garrett Daun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>whoa, what a post. I don&#039;t really have answers for anyone here, as I continue to live in this crazy flow of life we all seem to share together. However, there are infinite directions in which to proceed, and anytime that anyone thinks they have something completely figured out and understood, you can be sure that there are many, many more things to learn and observe.

enjoy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>whoa, what a post. I don&#8217;t really have answers for anyone here, as I continue to live in this crazy flow of life we all seem to share together. However, there are infinite directions in which to proceed, and anytime that anyone thinks they have something completely figured out and understood, you can be sure that there are many, many more things to learn and observe.</p>
<p>enjoy.</p>
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		<title>By: Garrett Daun</title>
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		<dc:creator>Garrett Daun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>whoa, thanks for that excellent post, Tim. It really demonstrates the power of a single blog post. Cheers!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>whoa, thanks for that excellent post, Tim. It really demonstrates the power of a single blog post. Cheers!</p>
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