Elisha Goldstein Quotes

Here’s the thing about depression: It tells you lies. It makes you believe that thoughts are facts. It can even take away every last ounce of hope in your soul.

As humans, we’re wired with an automatic negativity bias, paying more attention to what’s negative than positive.

You are not your depression.

On the road to change, whenever you fall prey to bad habits, you can expect the brain to default to voices of inadequacy and unworthiness. The best strategy is to forgive yourself for going astray—it’s expected. In this space of awareness, investigate and learn from the distraction and then invite yourself to make the choice to start again. Make Forgive and Invite a practice and keep beginning again and again.

When two companies flog their researchers around the clock to come up with a cure for the same disease, it is no accident when they arrive at virtually identical drugs, sometimes within days of each other. Often the margin of difference is so thin that, outside a courtroom, noone can say for sure which team produced the invention first. Alexander Graham Bell's competitor, Elisha Gray, got to the patent office on the same day as Bell, forcing Bell to prove that he invented the telephone first. And, like Bell, whoever reaches the finish line first not only gets the prize they were all competing for-a patent- but, with that patent, the power to stop anyone else, including the runner-up, from producing or selling the invention.

What we resist persists” is

The fact is, whenever you resist the pain that’s there, your suffering increases.

that cue the habit in the first place. The moment you notice the depression loop in action is the moment you’re able to step outside of it, into a space of perspective and choice.

Ya no caigo con tanta frecuencia en la trampa del «¿qué pensarán?», sino que recurro más a la convicción de que «lo estoy haciendo lo mejor que puedo en este momento y es suficiente».

La depresión es mucho más prevalente de lo que creemos y la Organización Mundial de la Salud predice que, en 2020, será la segunda causa de muerte, por detrás únicamente de las enfermedades cardiovasculares. El índice de recaídas es elevado. La depresión no discrimina a nadie y nos afecta a cada uno de una forma distinta. Hay personas que pueden funcionar con una infelicidad crónica leve, mientras que otras acaban incapacitadas con brotes de desprecio hacia sí mismas y un laberinto de emociones oscuras que les invaden el cuerpo y la mente.

descubrir la felicidad es más que emborracharse de vida: consiste en vivir la experiencia profunda y duradera de aprender a amarnos a nosotros mismos y a los demás, tanto en los buenos momentos como en los malos.

aunque no puedo controlar lo que me sucede en cada momento, sí que puedo elegir conscientemente cómo responder ante ello.

la vida no es un problema que hay que resolver. La vida es una experiencia en evolución constante que hay que vivir.