Depression unfortunately is the result of a lot of fear in ones life. The acronym for FEAR is false evidence appearing real.

Fear is something that your actual imagination conjures up. It’s not something that is real, but because our imaginations are so powerful, they take on a life of their own which causes fear..

I want to share with you some insights on how you can control fear and how you can break through fear. First of all, I would say is that action totally conquers fear which basically means one must confront what one is afraid of. Be it a person, be it a business, be it whatever, we fear things and these things, events, scenarios must be confronted. When you look at it from an outsider’s aspect, fears are so miniscule.

When an outsider looks at it like if you go to a counselor and you basically describe to him the things that you are afraid of, he will make you immediatley aware of how small and false they are. So that’s the first bit of positivity, a fact that 99.9% of the fears you have are easy to conquer, but you need to do a few things.

The first thing is you need to confront them. It’s like the public speaker that started off making speeches. His knees were creaking initially and he thought he was going to fall down, but he didn’t, and the second time , his knees creaked less. The third time he tried, much less and finally, he conquered his fear and now he’s an accomplished public speaker.

Also, in public speaking, people have fears of sweating excessively. When people are doing exams, for example, they have fears of scribbling. Because their writing is so bad, they have a fear of actually not writing correctly, and because of this they write awfully.

So a few quick things, the first thing you can use is reverse psychology which is very powerful. So for example, you have desperate handwriting and you are afraid of writing desperately in an exam and you know the whole drama and tension is just adding to your fear, i,e: you’re going into an exam hall and you know your writing is bad and the fear makes you write worse.

Well, what you should do is actually focus on writing badly because sometimes if you use reverse psychology and you focus on the thing that you are fearing, but focus actually on doing it, don’t fear it, you’ll actually write better.

The same thing if a public speaker has a fear of sweating too much when he’s speaking. He goes into the auditorium and instead of fearing sweating, he actually focuses on it so now he is asking himself to sweat far more. Sometimes or a lot of the time your fear just dissipates when you give your fear no power. Instead of fearing the thing, focus on the thing and actually try to do it.

Like the person who is in fear of going asleep, actually he doesn’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow so he’s actually in fear of going asleep so a coach or an expert would tell that person, “Instead of going home and fearing going to sleep, focus on staying awake. By actually focusing on staying awake, the initial fear will start to dissipate..

Now, secondly when a negative thought comes into your head, the first thought after that, and (this is how people’s imaginations are so powerful), the first thought after that will dictate whether you enter a negative state or a positive state. It must be positive. It must be happy.

A lot of times people end up hating each other because some person might have done something wrong. It could have been a minor thing, but because we play these imagination games in our minds and we let ourselves enter negative states, it all turns out bad… and negative states repeated lead to depression..

This is not good. When that instant negative thought enters, you need to put a stop to it, and as I said, the first thought will dictate whether you go to a negative state or you stay on a positive track. We all must strive to keep our minds in a positive mental state. This ultimately is how depression is defeated.