⭐️ Subscribe to my UNFILTERED NEWSLETTER to share authentic thoughts and practical tools together: 👉 https://christele-albaret.ck.page/ins... To request an expert consultation with me: 📆 https://calendly.com/christelealbaret Follow me on social media: ➡️ Instagram: / christelealbaret ➡️ Facebook: / christelealbaret ➡️ Twitter: / christl_albaret 👉 Share this video with someone who needs it. Sometimes, a moment of awareness can change everything! Take care of yourself! Chapters: 0:00 - 0:32: Introduction 0:32 - 1:40: Positive Language 1:40 - 2:30: Rediscovering the Joy of Choosing 2:30 - 3:30: Clearing Your Thoughts 3:30 - 4:18: Conclusion The first routine for fighting depression is to practice positive language. When you're depressed, you need to nourish yourself with positive energy. We don't realize that in life, we spend a lot of time using negatives instead of positives. For example, if you say to someone who is depressed, "Don't worry, don't be sad, don't be afraid," their brain doesn't actually hear the "Ne" sounds; that's exactly what's happening in the brain. When you say "Don't be sad," the brain hears the message "be sad." So, to practice positive language, you simply have to eliminate the "don'ts" and "no longer" and get straight to the point. This positive language routine will do your brain good. It's a small practice to learn and experiment with, but you'll feel better very quickly. The second routine is to rediscover the pleasure of choosing. When you're depressed, you're tired, you're exhausted, and making a decision, even the simplest one, can sometimes be difficult. So, using the decision slider, for example, when you say "do you want to go to the movies?", on a scale of 0 to 10, do you want to go to the movies? If you're above 5, and from 5 or higher, it's fine, don't ask any questions, and go to the movies. If, on the other hand, we tell ourselves that we might not want to go, the second question to ask ourselves, on a scale of 0 to 10, is: do we need it or will it do us good? If it's higher than 5, we don't ask ourselves the question, we just go for it. The decision-making ruler is very useful when we're depressed, and it's also very useful in everyday life. The third routine is clearing our thoughts, Socratic style. Socrates said this: "If what you say is neither the truth, nor good, nor useful, why tell me?" So, the same goes for thought cleansing: if thoughts are neither useful, nor good, nor the truth, why practice them? For this, the "V.B.U" technique is effective every time we have a recurring thought. We ask ourselves the following questions: Is this thought true? Is this thought good? Is it useful? If it doesn't add up, it's not complicated; we delete this thought. By asking ourselves the question, "Is my thought V.B.U?", quite naturally, we will begin to sort through our thoughts.