86th Live Stream with Carlton Pearson - How To Manage Depression and Self-Hatred

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How To Manage Depression and Self-Hatred Suicide among middle aged men is up 40% in America. As human beings, we are all suffering from a sexually transmitted disease we inherited from our parents, as they are from theirs, and it is called Life. Living is a sophisticated form and process of dying. Living, like loving, is an abstract disease or dis-ease, which is the tension of existence or the logic of being human and includes all human beings. Depression is severe despondency and dejection, typically felt over a period of time and accompanied by feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy. Usually it is not just dejection from outside sources, but from a subconscious infliction or projection of self-rejection. Depression is a kind of self-punishment or a belief that you are being punished or the subconscious belief that you should be. Life starts and stops, is sustained or detained with and by what you believe about you and how you experience yourself. The difference between rejection and dejection is slight. Rejection is being spurned or denied of someone's affections, especially family or someone you love or thought loved you. It is feeling dismissed or refused as a person. Dejection, on the other hand, is the experience of a sad and depressed state, low spirits and depression. It comes from the sense of being ‘overthrown, abased or degraded’. We all feel thrown around from time to time, but being thrown down is a deeper sense of loss, degradation and defeat. We must all be careful about what "stories" we believe or make up about ourselves. What we invent in consciousness, we invite into our realities. Thoughts are powerful and creative. They are inventive. Eleanor Roosevelt said, "No one can make you feel inferior, without your permission". Self-rejection is the worst kind of emotional homicide there is; in fact, self-rejection is both homicidal and suicidal. Pesticides, insecticides, genocides, infanticides, homicides, and suicides all have to do with death. The word "cide" denotes a person or substance that kills. So you must deCIDE what you want to kill or cut off in your thought life or in your consciousness that withholds rather than unfolds the layers of yourself and your soul that create your personal freedom and power. We must rethink everything we think, first about ourselves, our gods (and there are many of them), and we must rethink our belief systems regarding the same which impacts our overall worldview. Again, what do you believe most about you? Why do you believe that? And how do those beliefs about you add to or subtract from the quality of your life? Carlton Pearson After college at the Oral Roberts University in Tulsa Oklahoma he served for 15 years on its Board of Regents, and two years as Associate Evangelist of The Oral Roberts Association, (ORA). In 1977, Pearson founded Higher Dimensions Ministries (now New Dimensions ), in Tulsa, which grew to over 5,000. Bishop Pearson was consecrated to the office of Bishop in 1996 thru a College of Bishops headed by Bishop Charles E Blake, presently the Presiding Bishop of the Churches of God In Christ, the denomination he was raised in and through whom he was ordained in 1971. In 1993, Carlton married the former Gina Marie Gauthier who is a professional Life Coach and Yoga teacher. More recently, he has felt a passion to proclaim the "Gospel Of Inclusion" and has written a widely acclaimed book by that name, published by Simon and Schuster. It confronts the Christian church's exclusivism as being inconsistent, in spirit with the teachings of Jesus. Pearson's frank and often controversial take on a number of different subjects has earned him appearances on television programs such as NBC and MSNBC's Dateline, ABC's Nightline, 20/20, Good Morning America, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, The Edge with Paula Zahn and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, The Monique Show on BET, and a number of other television, radio and print media outlets. Bishop Pearson was recognized as one of America's 10 Most Influential Black Ministers by Gospel Today and Belief.net. He has received several honorary doctoral degrees. Bishop Pearson recently served as the Interim Senior Minister at Christ Universal Temple in Chicago. He and Gina now host New Dimensions of Chicago, building a local multi-cultural and radically Inclusive spiritual community that emphasizes expanded consciousness and Self Actualization. His newest book, God Is Not A Christian, Nor A Jew, Muslim, Hindu...God Dwells With Us, In Us, Around Us, As Us was published by Simon and Schuster and released in the spring of 2010. Visit our Youtube Channel for more video! Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/bishoppearson Website: http://www.bishoppearson.com Join Email List: http://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?llr=cqgwpvn6&p=oi&m=1011112155650

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