Seasonal Affective Disorder – Natural Treatment

Increase your intake of vitamin B complex, 100 mgs 3 times daily plus extra Vitamin B 5, 500 mgs daily, the most potent anti-stress vitamin.

Vitamin C, 2,000-10,000 mgs daily in divided doses.

Increasing your Potassium 80 mgs, Calcium 1,500-2,000 mgs daily and Magnesium 1,000 mgs daily is helpful.

Low doses of Melatonin seem to help many people by regulating balance in the body. Try using half the recommended dose for the first 3-4 days and monitor your results.

Meditating. Quieting your mind for 10-15 minutes is a wonderful release.

Aromatherapy is very effective for Seasonal Affective Disorder. Jasmine and Bergamot oils are uplifting and refreshing, while lavender is calming and relaxing. Put a little on your wrists, or a piece of cloth you can carry with you. In a pan of hot water drop about 6-8 drops of oil to diffuse it into the air, or perhaps you have your own diffuser.

I always like to stress one other factor, which plays a major role in our mind-body connection. That is our belief system. It often is what you believe it to be. Your Belief System is an important part in healing, especially for Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Allow yourself, change, and time off, a different path. Seek what it is that is at the root of your dis-ease or comfort level. Address it. Believe that you can do that.

Using Exercise for Treating Seasonal Affective Disorder

MOVE!!!! Exercise also plays a MAJOR role in the treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder.

Exercise is very helpful in depression because it stimulates circulation and releases serotonins in the brain, the hormones that encourage contentment and an all-around feeling of happiness.

It not only keep the body physically and mentally fit but also provides recreation and mental relaxation. It is nature’s best tranquilizer. Exercise produces chemical and psychological changes that improves your mental health. It changes the levels of hormones in blood and may elevate your beta-endorphins (mood-affecting brain chemicals). Exercise may also improve the function of the autonomic nervous system.

Exercise also gives a feeling of accomplishment and thus reduces the sense of helplessness. Some form of active exercise, must be undertaken each day at a regular hour. To be really useful, exercise should be done in such a manner as to bring into action all the muscles of the body in a natural way.

Walking is one such exercise. It is, however, so gentle that one must walk several miles in a brisk manner to constitute a fair amount of exercise. Aerobics (low impact) is even better, for it increases cardiovascular health and wipes out the focus of depression and makes you feel wonderful! 3-5 days a week at 30 -40 minutes should be your goal. The depressive mood can be OVERCOME by activity. Those who are depressive will forget their misery by doing something. They should turn away from themselves and consider others. At home they can take to decorating, repairing or constructing something new. The pleasure of achievement overcomes the distress of misery. Stop making excuses!

Nutrition and Seasonal Affective Disorder

Water is essential in any healing process. Distilled water is the best. 6-8 eight ounces glasses per day.

Diet has a “profound effect” on the mental health of a person. Even a single nutritional deficiency can cause depression in susceptible people. Nutritional therapy can be used to build up brain chemicals, such as serotonin and norepinephrine that affect mood and are often lacking in depressed people. Eat foods rich in B vitamins, such as whole grains, green vegetables, eggs and fish.

The diet of people suffering from depression should completely exclude tea, coffee, alcohol, chocolate and cola, all white flour products, sugar, food colorings, chemical additives, white rice and strong condiments.

The diet should be restricted to three meals. Fruits can be taken in the morning for breakfast with milk and a handful of nuts and seeds. Lunch may consist of steamed vegetables, whole wheat bread and a glass of butter-milk. For dinner, green vegetable salad and all available sprouts such as alfalfa seeds, cottage cheese or a glass of butter-milk would be ideal. This is one example. Do what is right for you! DO NOT over eat.

Crystal Therapy and Seasonal Affective Disorder

Crystal Therapy is a wonderful adjunct therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder. Placing a crystal in your bedroom, kitchen, living room or work place is beneficial. Also, carrying the crystal in your pocket or handbag, or worn as jewelry often offers subtle but very effective results. Meditating with the crystal in the palm of your hands or sitting in front of you is another use for crystals with this disorder. A refreshing bath with the crystal in your bath water or placing the crystal on the appropriate Chakra region (often the Heart or Solar Plexus Chakra) can be very beneficial. Meditating, Chakra work and Hydrotherapy with crystals should utilize about 20 minutes (or more if it ‘feels appropriate’) of your time in order to reap the benefits.

Besides the excellent healing power of Quartz, clinical results have been found with the following:

Gold:

Excellent all-purpose, high level gem amplifier and electrical conductor, especially on Solar plexus and Heart Chakra. Strengthens meridians, nerve system, and digestion. Positively charged with warming sun energy. Often worn by teachers/healers, especially after much self-healing (addictions, childhood…) Attracts prosperity, stores, amplifies thoughts/emotions/energy (Greed too). Yang. Pink = Gold + copper. Lovingness, warmth, spirituality. Amplifies gem effects.

White: Combines sun and moon’s energy, thus higher conductor and amplifier. A regenerator, helping one renew oneself. Works on the physical, mental, and spiritual planes. It benefits the nervous system and improves the ability of the nerves to transmit information in the most efficient manner. Helps digestion and helps the body in the proper assimilation of food.

Benefits the circulatory system and blood. Helps control hormonal and chemical imbalances. Can be of great importance to individuals with degenerative diseases, such as heart disease or arthritis. Helps the brain work more efficiently. It works well with all crystals and gemstones. Can be used in conjunction with Copper and Silver, which aid in boosting its abilities in specific instances.

Gold settings: Gold is ruled by the Sun a masculine planet, and therefore imparts a more assertive energy to crystals & minerals that are mounted in it.

Jet:

A fossilized organic matter used as a healing stone. A form of petrified wood similar to coal, though much harder. Has absorbing qualities. Helps draw out negative energy. Especially useful for people who have unreasonable fears that limit their lives. Helps control mood swings and fights deep depression. Recommended for stimulating psychic experience and guiding one in the quest for spiritual enlightenment. If worn, it should be set in silver.

Lapis Lazuli:

Solid, med. to dk. blue. In meditation, opens Brow Chakra: higher guidance, intuition, connection to higher self, overview, decisions for good of all. Organizes, quiets mind. Opens Throat/Thyroid Chakra: Self-expression, writing, creativity, dream insight, allows total awareness…Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, autism, shyness, nervous system, depression, serenity, self-acceptance; MS, speech, hearing, pituitary, DNA, lymph, inflammation, pain (especially head), protection stone. Shelters the wearer like a shield.

Extraordinarily deep blue stone often flecked with Pyrite. Can also be mottled with white Calcite. Most is currently mined in the USSR and Afghanistan. Beneficial to the respiratory system, especially the throat and lungs, the cleansing organs, and the nervous system.

A good stone for blood purification and for boosting the immune system. A powerful thought-amplifier and is helpful in aligning all the elements of the body and mind. Can increase psychic abilities and will open the third eye. Can guide you in the direction of mental and spiritual purity. It should be worn as close to the throat as possible or at least above the diaphragm so that the energy of the wearer is drawn upward.

Moonstone:

Feldspar (contains aluminum). Translucent with white, pink, yellow, soft sheen. Honors the Goddess in all women, Dieting, Gardening, Psychic Awareness, and Meditation. Soothes stress, anxiety, women’s hormones/menstrual imbalance, lymph. Enhances intuitive sensitivity via feelings and less overwhelmed by personal feelings. Greater flexibility and flow with life. Connects 2nd and 6th Chakra and Pineal for emotional balance, gracefulness. Helps all be more comfortable with our gentler feminine/yin receiving side. Especially for water signs. Used for protection against the perils of travel.

Translucent, milky gemstones usually pale blue or green that are cut from Albite. Found in India and Australia. Known to be of ancient spiritual significance in their connection to the moon and the intuitive aspect of one’s nature. Help cool, soothe, and calm over- reactions to emotional and personal situations. Makes one conscious of the fact that all things are part of a cycle of constant change. They open us up to the feminine and are associated with sensitivity, intuition, and clairvoyance. Beneficial for those involved in agriculture. Moonstone’s effect upon the menstrual cycle is powerful.

At the time of the full moon or menstruation, women should be aware of their sensitive emotional nature and remove these stones. May help all parts of the lower torso, which include digestive, cleansing and reproductive organs.

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