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Do You Love Someone With Depression?

If you have a partner or are close to someone who struggles with depression, you may not always know how to show them you love them. One day they may seem fine, and the next they are sad, distant and may push you away. It is important that you know that as a person who is close to them and trusted by them, you can help your friend or partner have shorter, less severe bouts of depression. Mental illness is as real as physical illness (it is physical actually, read more about that here) and your partner needs you as much as they would need to be cared for if they had the flu.

Your relationship may seem one-sided during these times, but by helping your partner through a very difficult and painful affliction, you are strengthening your relationship and their mental health in the long term.

1. Help them keep clutter at bay.

When a person begins spiraling into depression, they may feel like they are slowing down while the world around them speeds up. The mail may end up in stacks, dishes can pile up in the sink, laundry may go undone as the depressed person begins to feel more and more overwhelmed by their daily routine and unable to keep up. By giving your partner some extra help sorting mail, washing dishes or using paper plates and keeping chaos in check in general, you’ll be giving them (and yourself) the gift of a calm environment. (I’m a fan of the minimalist movement because of this, you can read more about that here.)

2. Fix them a healthy meal.

Your partner may do one of two things when they are in a depressed state. They may eat very little, or they may overeat. In either case, they may find that driving through a fast food restaurant or ordering a pizza online is just easier than fixing a meal. Eating like this, or neglecting to eat will only degrade your partner’s health, causing her to go deeper into her depression. Help your loved one keep her body healthy, and her mind will follow. This is a great article that talks about the “Brain Diet” which can help the symptoms of depression, and this article talks about how our modern diet could contribute to the recent rise in depression. Here is a recipe for a trail mix that is quick to make and has mood-boosting properties.

3.Get them outside.

The benefits of getting outside for a depressed person are huge. And it is possibly the last thing on earth your partner will want to do. Take them to be somewhere in nature. Pack a picnic and lie in the sun, take a leisurely hike (exercise is an effective mood booster!) or plant a garden. Being barefoot in the dirt, or “earthing” helps ground the body and reverse the effects of living in a world of emf’s, and digging in soil can actually act as an antidepressant, as a strain of bacterium in soil, Mycobacterium vaccae, triggers the release of seratonin, which in turn elevates mood and decreases anxiety. Sunshine increases Vitamin D production which can help alleviate depression. My friend Elizabeth wrote an excellent post about Vitamin D and its link to depression here. For more information about other sources of Vitamin D, this is a great post as well as this.

4. Ask them to help you understand what they’re feeling.

If your partner is able to articulate what they are going through, it will help them and you better understand what you are dealing with, and may give insight into a plan of action for helping your partner. Also, feeling alone is common for a depressed person and anything that combats that feeling will help alleviate the severity and length of the depression.

5. Encourage them to focus on self-care.

Depressed people often stop taking care of themselves. Showering, getting haircuts, going to the doctor or dentist, it’s all just too hard, and they don’t deserve to be well taken care of anyway in their minds. This can snowball quickly into greater feelings of worthlessness since “Now I’m such a mess, no one could ever love me”. Help your loved one by being proactive. Tell them “I’m going to do the dishes, why don’t you go enjoy a bubble bath?” can give them the permission they won’t give themselves to do something normal, healthy and self-loving.

6. Hug them.

Studies show that a sincere hug that lasts longer than 20 seconds can release feel-good chemicals in the brain and elevate the mood of the giver and receiver. Depressed people often don’t want to be touched, but a sincere hug with no expectation of anything further can give your partner a lift.

7. Laugh with them.

Telling a silly joke, watching a comedy or seeing a stand up comedian will encourage your partner to laugh in spite of herself. Laughing releases endorphins and studies show can actually counteract symptoms of depression and anxiety.

8. Reassure them that you can handle their feelings.

Your partner may be feeling worthless, angry and even guilty while they are depressed. They may be afraid that they will end up alone because no one will put up with their episodes forever. Reassure them that you are in the relationship for the long haul and they won’t scare you away because they have an illness.

9. Challenge their destructive thoughts.

A depressed person’s mind can be a never-ending loop of painful, destructive thoughts. “I’m unlovable, I’m a failure, I’m ugly, I’m stupid”. Challenge these untruths with the truth. “You’re not unlovable, I love you. You aren’t a failure, here are all the things you’ve accomplished.”

10. Remind them why you love them.

Look at pictures of happy times you’ve had together. Tell them your favorite things about them. Reminisce about your relationship and all the positive things that have happened, and remind your partner that you love them and they will get through this.

- source unknown

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What is Alchemy?

According to Avery at Kymia Arts, alchemy is described as “the understanding of the relationship between consciousness and matter”. However, if you do not understand how alchemists view consciousness and matter, this definition can be rather daunting. I will attempt to define it as best I can.

First, however, I will give a bit (terribly brief) of history about alchemy as I have so far understood it.

The word “alchemy” comes from two words. The Arabic word “al”, which means “the”, and the word “khemia” or “khem” which was the Greek word for Egypt. This is very important, as all the alchemists throughout the ages have told us that alchemy was born in Egypt. Alchemy literally means “The Art of Egypt”. The Egyptians were gifted alchemy by their god Thoth, who is the god of writing, the sciences, and the arts. To the Greeks, Thoth was similar to their god Hermes, who, according to the Greeks, gave mankind alchemy as well. This is how Hermes Trismegistus came to be known as the father of Alchemy.

He was said to the author of the Emerald Tablet, a small piece of text said to be the foundational text of alchemy and Hermetica. This is where modern occultists get the idea of “As above, so below”. This is the basis of alchemy: that what is nature is reflected in man. That what is in the Heavens, is reflected on Earth.

To alchemists, all creation is birthed from a single point, which is called the Prima Materia. This Prima Materia could be called god, or the creator, or the divine one. The gods, what have you. This Prima Materia is made up of three principles. These principles are Salt, Mercury, and Sulfur. These three words are just code words to mean the Body, the Spirit, and the Soul.

To the alchemists, the soul is consciousness, and is capable of thinking. The Spirit, or Mercury of a thing is generator of thoughts, actuated by the soul. Though spirit, the body is made manifest. The Body, or Salt, is solid abstraction, caused by the Sulphur, or Soul. And this is the Prima Materia.

The Prima Materia is consciousness, and creation is the Salt, the Body of its generated thoughts. However, ALL things and beings in creation are made up of these three principles. Thus, to Alchemists, we are all one, but still all separate. Our separation is an illusion.

The goal of alchemy is to purify and accelerate the natural processes of Nature. They do this by separating the three principles, purifying them, and bringing them back together again. This is exemplified in the practice of spagyrics, which comes from the Greek word “spagyry” which means “to separate and reunite”. These spagyrics are spiritual AND physical medicines that change both the body and the soul/spirit of an individual. This way, they can perfect themselves to help perfect the world.

Going back to our original definition. Since we know that matter is the Body, and consciousness is the Soul, alchemy, then, is the understanding of how these two principles relate and correspond. This is done through the faculty of Mercury, the Mind/Spirit. Avery says that alchemy is truly a “science of the mind”. It is the Science of Mercury/Hermes/Thoth. To Alchemists, these were all the same god.

As I continue on this blog, I will be exploring how alchemy and witchcraft relate. So far in my studies, I see how each being is made up of three parts, just like in witchcraft. I see how all are connected, but separate, just like in witchcraft. In my witchcraft practice, we have a central figure who birthed all of creation, and They are made up of three parts, just like the Prima Materia. In witchcraft, we also seek to bring ourselves into more full alignment with Nature, just as in alchemy. A friend of mine calls this English Alchemy, but I haven’t been able to find much information on it outside of what he talks about. More to look into.

As I learn more, I will be posting my exploration on this blog.

Blessings.

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The Wonderful Color Wheel: Part 1

How many ways can you reshuffle the rainbow? Three, as a matter of fact, if modern color theory is to be believed: Pantone numbers for print designers and brand managers; hex, RGB, and CMYK values for web designers; and CIELAB and CIECAM02 color models for the scientific community. But while the science of color models is largely settled, all that rigorous theory still doesn’t quite squeeze out the sense of fallible humanity underpinning the history of the color wheel.

full article on printmag.com

by: Jude Stewart

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Platonic solid: In Euclidean geometry, a Platonic solid is a regular, convex polyhedron with congruent faces of regular polygons and the same number of faces meeting at each vertex. Five solids meet those criteria, and each is named after its number of faces.

An Archimedean solid is a highly symmetric, semi-regular convex polyhedron composed of two or more types of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices . They are distinct from the Platonic soilds, which are composed of only one type of polygon meeting in identical vertices, and from the Johnson solids, whose regular polygonal faces do not meet in identical vertices.

In mathematics, a Catalan solid, or Archimedean dual, is a dual polyhedron to an Archimedean soild. The Catalan solids are named for the Belgian mathematician, Eugène Catalan, who first described them in 1865.

The Catalan solids are all convex. They are face-transitive but not vertex-transitive. This is because the dual Archimedean solids are vertex-transitive and not face-transitive. Note that unlike Platonic soilds and Archimedean soild, the faces of Catalan solids are not regular polygons. However, the vertex figures of Catalan solids are regular, and they have constant dihedral angles. Additionally, two of the Catalan solids are edge-transitive: the rhombic dodecahedron and the rhombic triacontahedron. These are the duals of the two quasi-regular Archimedean solids.

Images: Polyhedral Relations by Allison Chen on Behance.

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“The world will not perish for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder.”- J.B.S. Haldane

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Ninjas don’t wear black. They used to disguise themselves as civilians. Unlike ninjas in movies, the real guys were smart enough to know that wearing a black outfit with a face mask wasn’t the best strategy for blending in. Source

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But this leaves out the really neat part! The reason we equate the above image with a ninja comes from Kabuki theatre. Within Kabuki theatre there’s a convention of having Kuroko (stage hands) dress in all black (with a full face covering) and move around among the costumed actors in full view, moving scenery, props and costumes. In a similar way, Bunraku puppeteers dress in all black, and only the lead puppeteer’s face would be uncovered. The audience knew to ignore these people and focus on the actors, and to only see that the scene was “magically” changing. So when a play called for a ninja assassin to jump out of nowhere and kill someone, the easiest way to create the surprise reveal was to disguise the ninja in the all black garb of the Kuroko and to remove the face covering and start acting at the last second. This would shock the audience, who were conditioned to not focus on them. Pretty cool, yeah?