AUGUST 2008
Community Paper
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by Diane Ross

Excerpted from the book, Diaries of a Mystic, by Diane L. Ross. ©2003.

Love is Nature's Anti-Depressant

Love is Nature’s Anti-Depressant
Love is the greatest anti-depressant.
The energy of love contains all the chemicals your brain needs in order
to feel the best it can possibly feel.
Pharmaceutical anti-depressants don’t make you feel good; they simply,
theoretically, keep you from feeling really bad.
Cultivating love on a daily basis can have profound effects on your life.
You don’t need to have a person in your life to love, in order to cultivate love.
Lots of enormously positive side effects are available to all who consciously
choose love as the primary emotion to develop.
There are many ways to cultivate love.
One is to allow yourself to think of something that brings you joy.
Think of this thing, this thing that brings joy.
Breathe the feeling of joy into your lungs.
Imagine the joy traveling from your lungs into your bloodstream,
filling your entire body with joy.
When you feel this joy throughout your entire being, notice that you
can’t separate joy from love.
Notice how joy, bliss and happiness all run together.
All positive emotions flow together with love.
Notice that you don’t need to focus these emotions on any particular thing, place or person.
Notice that you can experience the profound feelings of love within yourself.
Love does not come from an outside source.
As you cultivate love within, your own inner source of strength grows.
This strength cannot be diminished by any outside source.
As you practice tapping into this inner wellspring of God’s love, it grows.
As you cultivate feeling love, sadness doesn’t have room to exist within you.
Cultivate love – nature’s antidepressant!

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Excerpted from the book,
Diaries of a Mystic, by Diane L. Ross. ©2003.

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