I am Omar and I am here in Toronto, standing in front of a shop called Kristapsons to talk to you about the relationship between salmon and fighting depression. I have talked to the owner of Krisapsons and he is told me about salmons behavior. Salmon have a specific behavior of going back to where they were born to lay their own eggs even after traveling thousands of miles. They also have this ability to adapt to their situations. Like the salmons, we humans are also part of nature and as part of nature we also have this ability to adapt. We have the innate ability to survive, only we have forgotten about it. I am telling you about salmon to serve as a reminder of their ability to survive and your innate ability to survive from setbacks and problems. You just have to really reflect on your innate ability to solve problems and be determined to get through it. Hi, this is Omar from DepressionHero.com where I show you how I beat depression. And I think you can too, using the same techniques that I have learned. I am standing here in Toronto, and it is winter. It is very cold, and I am standing in front of a shop called Kristapsons. Kristapsons is very famous in Toronto for all of their smoked salmon. In fact they have been voted best smoke salmon in Toronto. I am here to talk to you about the relationship between salmon and depression. What this video is about, is what we can learn from salmon and salmons behavior in our fight with depression. You may think, Wow, that is so weird. What is that relationship? And you may also think that it has to do with how salmon has a lot of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Studies have shown that these omega 3 essential fatty acids can improve your mood and they can improve your cognitive function, your thinking and get you out of that fog. And that is true, but actually that is not the purpose of this video. Salmon has some very specific behavior to reproduce. Imagine this; imagine swimming for as much as 2000 miles just to go back to the same exact spot in the stream where you were born so you can lay your eggs. That is what salmon do. So we had the great fortune of having the owner of Kristapsons come out and I asked Andris Grinbergs to talk to you about the behavior of salmon and how they actually reproduce. So Andris, welcome. Thank you very kindly. I am flattered. Flattered to be here and answer any questions that I can for you. Thank you. I mean, I just had some of your salmon and it is absolutely delicious. I am making this video on depression, and looking at how the behavior of salmon, how they travel for thousands of miles, what can we learn from them and apply those lessons to depression. Could you tell us about what salmon does to reproduce? Well, basically salmon have a GPS system that identifies where they were born and then as they grow, this system helps them to know when to return to that spot. They can travel for literally tens or hundreds or thousands of miles. These fish travel or migrate from the North Pole down to the California coast. Okay? That is amazing. That is. And it is astounding when you stop to think about it. What I am trying to do is capture the lesson from the salmon, that they are traveling all these thousands of miles just to procreate and reproduce. And I think humans can do the same thing. Not for the reproduction, but just to find that energy within themselves to solve whatever problem it is. And in the case of depression, finding that innate energy to the drive and the desire and the determination, let us say, to actually break through their habit of depression. Salmon can adapt. I mean, they have never had salmon in the south. To my knowledge, they did not have salmon in South America until some of the farms migrated and took fish down to farm in the South America, and now there is a wild salmon fishery. There is a wild fishery there. I do not know if it is good enough to make up for a while. But there are so many farms down there and so many fish get out of captivity that now they have found themselves a whole new place to go and find the sources to which they have to go to lay the eggs in an area that is safe for them, as free to be able to grow and then go down the river, go and grow up in the ocean and then return again; only this time, in South America. It is really loud here and it is also very cold, and there have been a lot of street cars going by and I have had to do this take several times. So let us just go inside and we will continue the discussion inside and learn how we can apply some of the same principles that I have learned from salmon in our fight with depression. Because it is really, really cool. Just learning about this will open eyes about what nature is all about, and what we can learn from nature. So let us go inside and warm up. Welcome, that feels so much better to be inside this warm home as opposed to the freezing cold that I was in at Toronto. As we heard from Andris, salmon go thousands and thousands of miles to go back to their stream to reproduce, and they are very adaptable. So why am I telling you all this about salmon? It is because we can learn from nature. Human natures are part of nature. You are a part of nature. There are ways that you can learn from nature all around you. I am just using salmon as an example because I love eating salmon, and this is what it reminds me of. It reminds me of the innate desire, the innate determination, the innate instinct for reproduction that the salmon has. As human beings we have also innate instincts. For us, it is also survival. Otherwise the human race would have been extinct long time ago after volcanoes and wars and all kinds of natural disasters. But we are still here. Why? Because human beings have an innate problem solving ability that keeps them alive. We have innate survival skills. We have innate problem solving skills. I mean, we have gone to the moon. We have sent a spaceship to Mars. We have split the atom and made these atomic bombs. And you think that we cannot conquer depression? Of course we can. You have just forgotten your innate ability. That is why I am telling you about salmon to remind you, that you, as a human being, as part of nature, you have these instinct of abilities as well. You have just forgotten that you have them. You also have this negative thinking going on that is clouding your vision and it is not allowing you to think clearly. It is separating you from your true abilities, which means it is preventing you from taking action. So what I really want you to get from this video is to be able to reconnect with your inner desire, your inner determination to solve any problem that you have. In this case, it is depression. Imagine when you were younger and you wanted to learn to drive, what did you do? You actually learned to drive. You actually did it. Because you had a strong desire for it. Desire is an emotional component. Intellectually you know what you have to do, but emotionally something is stopping you and part of that has to do with the negative conversation in your head that is completely clouding your vision, and creating these false beliefs that you have. That everything is hopeless and there is no way that you can be helped and this kind of stuff. Here is what you can do. Just really, really, really reflect on your innate ability to solve problems, your innate ability for survival. Just really connect with that. Because that is the first step, desire. And desiring encompasses beliefs, encompasses determination, but it is the inner part of you. It is the inner part. Use the salmon as your teacher. Use it as your teacher to remind yourself every time you have salmon or every time you see salmon in a restaurant. That salmon has gone thousands of miles; that salmon has adapted to its environment, and that salmon can teach you to get out of your depression. Okay? So, I will see you in the next video. Remember you can do it. You can do it. You just have to believe in you. Good luck in this mission. It is a very worthy one, I must say. You know what? Yeah. It is so many people are suffering It is very, very worthy. And you know. I just want to make a difference. I wish you all the best. Thank you.