Energy top up?

Hi Flower,

Wow, that's a big question and not easily answered. I'm going to mix and match on the type of therapies, Reiki and Mind Therapies, as they all work on the energy system so I can see how your post could relate to either and, IMO, the Reiki forum is fine for your question.

Many people who haven't experienced depression believe that it's a simple condition like having a headache that won't go away. The truth is that depression comes in many forms and is very complex. It's not just one thing that is the root cause of depression, more like it is a build up of many smaller things that get intertwined, causing each other to exacerbate or become hightened beyond what a person would normally feel towards each thing.

When treating someone with, say EFT or Freeway, depression is one of the conditions that can take a while to sort out and require several sessions. It is usual that we find, by treating the source of one issue within the depression that it opens up a box of other issues that have been supressed by the first. Eventually it is possible to get back to the root causes (note the plural) and deal with each of those things seperately, although it can be one big emotional rollercoaster for the client and the practitioner does have to be confident and skilled in what they are doing.

With Reiki, it can certainly be beneficial to the person with depression and regular sessions will aid in their ability to feel more relaxed in situations as well as bring up the emotional issues that need dealing with. The person/client should be made aware beforehand that things will most certainly arise and that they have to be ready and accepting to deal with those things as and when; it may be things that they were completely unaware of that come to them as 'insights' or it could be supressed things that they have 'forgotten' ever happened.

Certainly NLP, Hypnotherapy and other techniques of this ilk could also be of benefit and just taking the time to do meditative practice a couple of times a day for 10 or 15 minutes will provide benefits. Without actually knowing your friend and their background it would be difficult to determine what visualisation/meditation styles would be best for them but if they go with what feels right for them then that would be a good start.

Has your friend been to see a GP about the depression and are they taking anything for the it, prescribed or alternative/complimentary/holistic?

Love and Reiki Hugs

Hi

Yes they are on medication they did say yesterday what the medication was but cant remember the name... but not a common name that I have heard of for depression..

Also.. what I feel has also happened they were trying to help - listen to someone that has a lot of problems - health and marriage and when I was speaking to him yesterday he said he felt drained.. so up goes the alarm bells that he could also be being drained - the person that he was listening too I also know, and from the past they have drained me many a time that was more as to why asking about topping up with energy etc...

I have been out of this for some time now, and do want to help this person..

flower

Try this:

First, practice abdominal breathing: inhale and imagine a balloon in your lower abdomen is slowly filling with air. Note that your chest should not rise/expand. The lungs expand downwards, pushing the organs forwards and hence the lower abdomen sticks out. Then exhale and draw the lower abdomen in, imagining the balloon shrinking.

Do this for a few 10 minute sessions until abdominal breathing becomes natural. Well, it is. You did it as a baby.

Then, after a week or so, while abdominally breathing, imagine breathing healing energy in and storing it in the lower abdomen. Each inhalation stores more and more of this healing energy in your lower abdomen.

This is a basic form of chi kung.

Hi

I am not sure if this goes here but being its kinda question on energy put it here...

If you are low and suffer from depression I know someone that is feeling this.. I was wondering if there anything they could do for themselves in form of visualisation of bringing in energy or colour etc..

Anyone got any thoughts or excercises?

Thanks
flower

Have them practice Ha breathing this is done by taking a deep breath in filling the lungs and they exhaling and making a low haaaaaa noise the ratio of breathing is 2:1 this means that the breath out should be twice as long as the breath in. Do this for 10 minutes a day lengthening it to 30 minutes this will drastically increase their Ki (energy) levels.

OH I just noticed Darrens post which is similar except in Ha breathing you need to fill the whole lung from bottom to top...

You will end up filling the whole lung with abdominal breathing, too!

Hi

Just want to say thank you to both of you

Flower

I'd also want to tell you that there are different forms of depression: reactive, where the depression is brought on by an external event such as losing a job, and endogenous, where the depression has a physical cause. I've had both, and while I could do something about the reactive depression such as try and change the way I think (CBT), the endogenous depression couldn't respond to this as I had to wait for my body to get better in its own time.

The story behind that is that I had shingles, and while the actual lesions cleared up quite quickly (within a month), the endogenous depression that resulted lasted for months: it took me 3 months to feel able to return to work 2hours a day, and didn't go back to work full time for 9 months. What did help, however, was knowing that there was nothing I could do, that I wasn't a bad person, that I was as physically ill as if I had broken a leg, and that it would heal in its own time. All I had to do was wait. That was such a relief it did contribute to my recovery.

So it may be that your friend only needs you to tell them all this, and that perhaps the best thing you (and they) can do is lots and lots of nothing!

I'm sure you would be able to send them distance Reiki healing, I've found this works better in this situation than hands-on. Even if you find they don't want it at the moment, you can ask the universe to save it in their own personal healing bank until they want to access it.

Hope this helps.

Hi

Funnily enough we did discuss Reki and I said I would send thenReiki.. the depression they have is due to partner ill with MS and being a carer that they I belived also had some kind of breakdown.. so it is a life situation problem.

I am also trying them to be positive as once people get into negative thinking, that makes things worse.. so fingers crossed there will be some improvement

Flo