I've been watching Daniel Gilbert's PBS documentary on emotions. In the second installment Elizabeth Gilbert said something that has struck me like a bolt of lightning. The opposite of depression is not happiness. That is the opposite of sadness. The opposite of depression is vitality.
This is of course what I'm doing in this practice and with my chronotherapy. Setting up a life structure that will maximize my vitality. That would be the aim of a healthy diet, if I were to get back to that! Cleaning, eating and sleeping well, meditating. All these things are about creating a life that will bring in the vitality that will eventually flood out this depression. It seems so simple, but never is to my depressed mind.
