Hey 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 am going to show you. Today, actually, I was going to make a whole bunch of videos for you. And it turns out that, well, for the past week actually, that the neighbors next door are building a house. It is a new house. So they have been all day, they have had this massive machines and bulldozers and all kinds of stuff just moving earth and pounding it down, and it is been driving me nuts for the last week. Here we go again. My whole house is vibrating, and this whole week, even on Saturday morning at 8 oclock in the morning, they were doing something. I have no idea what it was they were doing, but there was this massive vibration. It was like my whole brain inside my head was shaking like this. And even now, my windows are shaking. I actually had some plates on the walls downstairs, and I removed them just in case the vibrations would cause them to fall. So why am I telling you all this and what does this have to do with depression? Well, the whole idea about this video and this video series is to look at everyday life. And to see what we can learn from depression. And a lot of times in our lives, we try and control the environment around us. I am a control freak. I admit it. I try to really control what is happening around me. I have tried not to allow things to be a certain way, and I really want them to be a certain way. And of course, life is not like that. Life does not allow you to control it. Life is in charge and it is my job to adapt. And again, we become back to this adaptability. I was sitting at my computer and I was getting really upset, pissed off. I was fuming. I was walking back and forth. I was looking at the neighbors. As if that was going to help. It was just something to release my anger. So rather, than just sit there and stew about it, I am making this video for you about it. Again, it has to do with control. And the whole lesson here is that when we get depressed When I was depressed, I was depressed because certain things happened to me that were beyond my control. And since I am a control freak, and I want things to be in a certain way and they are not in a certain way, I got depressed. And then, of course, the conversation starts in my head about, oh because things did not work out the way I wanted them to work out, I am a loser.’ Which is a complete, absolute fallacy. It is wrong. But my mind has a way of convincing me that my perspective, my point of view is the only point of view and it is the correct point of view. So when life happens, which it does, life happens. And it happens in opposition to what I think life should be and how life should be happening, I was getting depressed. For example, as I have mentioned before many times, I lost 2 million dollars. I suddenly went from being completely free, traveling all over the world, literally doing whatever I wanted; to suddenly being in debt, being in this very ugly lawsuit. And in my mind, I was thinking to myself, I should not be in this situation. I should not be in this situation. And this SHOULD come out. And suddenly my mind goes off in this path of negativity. And this negativity, I am not sure if you can hear this vibration, but I can feel it in my whole body and even this desk because it just totally vibrated. And that is the reason I am making this video for you right now as they are doing this vibration. Because like when I lost that money, like even other things that happen to me, it was not how life was supposed to be in my life, in my mind. And yet, that is reality. So I was getting angry at myself. I was getting angry at life. I was getting angry at everybody. I felt like the whole world was out to get me, because life did not turn out the way I wanted it to be or the way I expected it to be. This is a perfect example of that, that is happening right now and I was able to catch myself. I was like, oh, man! These guys are driving me nuts. So I was fuming. I was walking back and forth. I sent my girlfriend an email saying, these guys are driving me nuts. And so then, I said, you know what? I am going to use this. This is a lesson. Because the whole thing about life is to learn. That is my thing. Everything is a test. You are learning from life. You are adapting. If you do not learn, if you do not adapt, you become rigid. And when you are rigid, you cannot move, you cannot enjoy life. You are not alive. The only time that you are rigid is when you are 6 feet under, and that is not our purpose on life. Life is to live and to enjoy, and to experience and to be alive, and to move your body, and to move your brain, and to move your emotions and just see what is happening and learn from it. That is my perspective. So I was getting angry and I decided I caught myself. And that is the whole thing. You have to learn how to become aware of what is happening inside of you, how to become aware of when your thoughts just start taking you off on this very, very negative road. Because when you have negative thoughts, suddenly your emotions become negative. Suddenly my emotions became negative and I was getting angry and upset, and I became completely unproductive, you know, working at the computer, doing my work. And I was completely unproductive. I was just angry. So I decided to adapt. So my thought process was, how can I use this? And here is the video. And as you noticed, maybe you did not, but the vibrations just stopped. So that is the other point I want to make, and I was hoping that they were going to do it earlier, but they just did it now. And here is the other point, nothing goes on forever. Nothing goes on forever. These people were driving me nuts. They took some breaks and started again. Now they are taking another break. It is not the whole time. Of course, in my mind, it was the whole time but it was not actually. There were moments when they were taking a break, and that is the whole thing. It is really important, it is vital for you to get this lesson. It is never forever. It is never forever. It lasts for a short amount of time. You have to learn to get the lesson. You have to learn to adapt, because if you have got a mountain there, the mountain is not going to move for you. You have got to go around it, climb over it, build a tunnel. There are different options. Or take another road, route, road. The thing is, adapt,learn, become aware, of yourself, of your body, of your thoughts, especially when they just get carried away and realize that it is not going to be forever. But in the mean time, in that moment, you have to adapt. Move with it, flow with it. Another thing I could do is actually go outside and do my errands. I have a whole bunch of errands to do. So that is another thing that I could be doing instead of getting upset. It gives me an excuse to leave the house. It gives me an excuse to go out and get a bunch of things crossed off my to do list. So that is the video for today. Adapt, learn, and realize that nothing goes on forever. Okay? So if you have any questions, just let me know. And go to DepressionHero.com if you want to get more videos like this, and I look forward to talking to you in the next video. Take care!