Before I dive into weeks topic, I want to take a moment here and be really vulnerable and share that I am not one of those people, as I’ve shared in a previous episode that I’ve struggled with my weight on and off in my 20’s & 30’s and I’ve also dealt with depression and anxiety throughout my life and I when I was approaching 40, I knew that I needed to not only finally look at my unhealthy relationship with food BUT also the underlying issues in my life that lead me down the rabbit hole of depression and anxiety. So I become my own patient and begin not only a regime of clean eating but also cleaning out my emotional closet, and finally began a healthy love affair with my self, and my sense of worthiness.

The suggestions I offer in episode are by no means the be-all, end-all for dealing with anxiety and depression. If your symptoms are not manageable with these spiritual tips and techniques, I suggest you work closely with your medical professional or your therapist to create a protocol that works specifically for you.

Everything I say about the topic of anxiety and depression is rooted in a wellness, wholeness, from a spiritual perspective. When it comes to depression and anxiety, so often we get caught in this trap: “Anxiety & depression is something terrible that I have to fix. I’m broken, something is wrong and I need to search outside myself for the remedy.”

For most people, this way of thinking is automatically dis-empowering. I say that we have to love our depression and see it as a source of strength.

One of the foundational principles that I’ve lived my life is that we are not separate from Spirit/God/Universe, and God is LOVE. Therefore, every single aspect of me has divinity to it and has that essence of love. So if I’m holding that perspective, then I have to look at depression and anxiety as something that is divine.

If anxiety is love, what does it mean? It means there is wisdom, guidance and light in this thing that I have previously seen only as terrible.

We can love our anxiety and depression and see it as a source of strength.

In this week’s episode of the Naturally Happy Podcast, I’d like to talk about and help get NLP: Nero Linguistic Programming, out of your head and into your world. I’m going to be talking about your unconscious mind that I titled this episode as "Meet Your Mind" OR "The Ultimate NLP Technique. I know that might be a bit of a lofty statement but I think, I’m going to be able to prove it by the end of the episode. So the top three things that you're going get from investing your time in either listening or watching this podcast: the first is that I’m going to demystify your unconscious mind. This is one of those topics that gets talked about in NLP and hypnosis trainings ad nauseam and people get so confused about it. What is your unconscious mind, really? For that matter, what is your mind really and who the heck are you in relation to your unconscious mind. I’m going demystify your unconscious.

So the second thing you're going to get out of this podcast is, you're going learn how to quiet that critical voice inside your mind. Whatever that voice is saying to you: you're not enough, you're a piece of nothing, you suck. Whatever that is, that voice can be silenced, and changed to something different, and I am going to show you how to do that.

And then the third thing is the single most powerful tool, I have ever discovered in NLP or otherwise for personal empowerment, it is the number one thing that I used to teach every single patient...when I was practicing in Canada... that I teach people to fish! Yup you heard me right! I’m going to teach you to fish!

In todays episode Dr. Vidya Reddy will be discussing the ability to transcend fear and the value of trusting the human vehicle. Which is the most divine miraculous piece of technology that exists, in this universe. On her journey towards healing and recovering from things like depression, anxiety, self-doubt, codependency and more importantly fear, she began to investigate this concept of fear, because she realized that fear had the ability to knock out any capacity, your divine body has, to overcome what you believe.

When a person believes that they “need” to please another person, especially to gain his/her love and approval, the initially balanced relationship quickly changes from inter-dependent to co-dependent. In this extreme form, the trap of people-pleasing can even lead to maintaining unfulfilling or abusive relationships, as well as submitting to or performing self-defeating behaviors such as self-starvation, substance abuse, sexual acting out, etc...

So how do we combat the dangerous consequences of perpetually putting others first? Here are a few strategies for getting your emotional health back on track? Listen to todays episode in which Dr. Vidya Reddy divulges to break through this pattern.

One has heard so often in our world about fears of failure... and it was presented awhile ago as this revelatory understanding that there is also what is known as the fear of success.

And it became something of a catch phrase, something of a buzzword...that we heard so often "Your problem is you have fear of success." And it's true for many people. Ironically, for many people the fear of success is much bigger than the fear of failure... You have learned through conditioning, from the time you were a very tiny infant, to cope with and deal with failure... Everyone has faced failure many, many times. You can and do cope with failure... and Likewise, you have come to face success as well. However, the "conditioning" to deal with and cope with success is never as thorough or as frequent... Therefore, truly so, success is more frightening than failure is.

Since the earliest times, the laying on of hands, vibrational healing has been used to help restore individuals to a state of health and, harmony on all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Energy healing promotes healing by enhancing energy flow and correcting disturbances in the “human magnetic energy field” or “aura” which permeates and surrounds the body, in this episode Dr. Reddy talks about how the the flow of energy in the energy field supports the self-healing capacity of the body and teaches you one of the techniques she likes to use wither patients.

Created over the millennia, healing crystals harness the life giving elements of the Earth and the universe. Harnessing the energy of the Sun, the Moon, and the oceans, semi-precious stones connect us to Earth as soon as we come into contact with them. Many people wonder if crystals have healing powers, and while there are many anecdotes describing the curative effects of healing stones, it really depends on your own experience.. It takes a conscious effort to open your heart and mind to the power of crystal healing, but once you begin, the journey is studded with beautiful, mysterious, and unique crystals that will rock your world

In this episode, Dr. Vidya Reddy asks one simple question, what makes you happy, what do you do that are your daily habits. Well this is the million-dollar question, how do you explain why people can and can't change habits. Sometimes habits happen easily, sometimes they vanish overnight, sometimes you try so hard to form a habit and you can't, sometimes it's like it seems effortless. So now, I’d like share what makes me happy.

As said by Dr. Reddy, there is so much to be gained, not from the fantasy, though that can sometimes be a lot of fun,  but from the fantasia, from the truth that is revealed from the Unknown, of course, visualization is important, but you also need to enhance, strengthen, and empower your own imagination so that those fantasias, those wonderful truths and realizations, can be as vivid and as vital and as powerful and as empowering as your own imagination is becoming. 

“Whoever you think you are as person and however you think, and how the world operates will be reflected back to you in the events of your life.” Dr Vidya Reddy dives into the topic of the subconscious mind and how harnessing it can change in your life at a core level. When you work on your programs that are held in the unconscious mind, anything is possible! The only limitation is what you can imagine.