 Welcome to Command Wing Chun. I'm Sifu David and today I'm going to talk about a very important topic. It's how to fight depression Now this here's a disclaimer. This is not a quick fix. I don't have the answer for this, but because it's a very complex issue and You know a lot of people deal with this but according to the Health Commission of Mental Health in Canada the statistic and then Report that they did is that in any given year one out of five Canadians Experienced a mental health or addiction problem. Okay, so one out of five that's seven million people in Canada every year suffer from some kind of Major one is depression Also by the time Canadians reach 40 years of age one out of two of them So half of them will have experienced a mental illness. Okay, so with depression can be anything from just feeling down or It can be a serious chronic depression. Okay, which can last for a lot of years Depression is a habit pattern and it's something that makes the brain Find depressing and you know negative thoughts very easily. So it's not an easy Okay So the reason I did this video is because there's people on the channel that watch my videos and they say Sifu David I know how to overcome depression and there's even some people that I know that are dealing with it right now And I just want to do this because I personally have gone through depression And this is what works for me and this is something that I hopefully can help you with so One simple solution And thing that would help is physical exercise. That's very obvious. So when you exercise You have endorphins in your body, right? What endorphins do is the is called the feel good hormone You guys familiar with that? Okay, and what that does is it counteracts all those negative feelings that you feel when you do the press There's also Meditation and breathing exercises that you do and I'm going to show you one of them and what I do That can help you out right away So depression is usually a state of mind that is based in the past. That's the key It's also Commonly comparative state of mind you're comparing yourself out of people you compare yourself to your what used to be and a Lot of it is based on you know, I could have should I would have how many guys familiar with that Okay, so I think every one of us has experienced that in our life now The thing with depression is that you think so much about these things that actually makes you feel physically tired It's an illusion of activity What happens is you feel like you did something but you didn't do anything But these thoughts negative thoughts that keep running around your mind actually make you physically tired And that's what people who are depressing experience They feel chronic fatigue and they can't even get out of bed because they're having this thing running around in their vein in their Brains, so how do you get out of that mental state of being in the past? Okay Any ideas? What's the simplest way you need to be in the present? Where do you need to be in the present? Okay, so okay, that's good. But how do you do that? Right, we always talk about being the present be present. But how do you do that? Okay, so that's where martial arts comes in Let me do a demonstration. So let's say that He's gonna punch me right And I block it okay, when I block it in the present or in the past or in the future Present the present. Can I block his punch in the past? No, can I block his punch in the future? No, if he punches right at the block it in the present and now let's say that I want to punch him all right, so Well, when I punch him, I mean Punched him now. Yeah, can I punch him in the past? No, can I punch him in the future? No Okay, this is a tricky one. Okay, can I punch him in the future? Yeah, no, I can't Let's let's look at this. Okay, can I punch him five seconds from now? No I'm gonna punch him five seconds from now. So one two three four five But I just did it under now. Yeah, okay, that's another now That's not five seconds from now. Yeah, okay So martial arts is one of those interesting things is unique Is because it forces you to be in the present you can't make it work in the past or in the future It has to be done in the present. You can't block you can't punch if you're not in the present. Okay, so that's one Cool thing about martial arts education technique that I use that combines breathing and chanting and thought control It's something that I learned from seek meditation Okay, and that brings us into the present state. So if you guys would like to try this at home You can follow me right now. So all you need to do right now is just close your eyes Okay, and then put your hands on your stomach like this And start breathing slowly Now when you breathe in now breathe in through your mouth and Gas like you go like you just saw something very amazing Like that in Cantonese. We have the saying wow like that, right? So that's the that's the feeling so you go And then when you breathe out you go So nice and slow And I want you to just focus on the sound of your voice and on the breathing So don't judge anything just observe listen to the sound of your voice So I've been doing that for about 30 seconds. Do you have many thoughts or little thoughts? Little thoughts Okay, and what did that happen? Were you thinking about the past or future? No, you were just experiencing now and that's what now is it's experience It's your feelings. It's what you're hearing. What's what's your senses? Senses is now you can't sense something You know right now. I mean unless it's now, okay? So with that exercise is so simple 30 seconds We were able to breathe and we were able to bring ourselves in the present moment. It's not cool. Yeah All right, so That's the cool thing about martial arts because we're combining the physical action with mental training and meditation For training your spirit your mind and your body at the same time. That's what's so cool That's why I love martial arts because you can do all these things in one place You don't have to go to meditation center to do Meditation you know how to go to the gym and to get in shape You don't have to go to some self-help class to you know train your mind You can do everything at the same time. I never did that before so just doing that I literally was just focusing on my breathing and nothing else. So the moment I stopped it was like You know my mind was just totally clear Cool, you can kind of do it whenever like even if you're driving or anything like that Just they kind of pull yourself out of whatever you're thinking And put yourself take control of your own mindset and just be wherever you want to be That was really great because for me I usually think about like what what's in the future But when you do think about now it is clear like what you can do in the future If you definitely do think about what you want to do now. It's good for me I think it's a little hard. I usually have like a million things running through my mind but I think with practice and Really being intentional about it. You'll get the hang of it and so if you're watching this video at home I hope that helps you out. Give this a try and then tell me how it works for you Now let me know how it goes So if you think that's gonna help you out your friends share with your friends comment like and subscribe and we'll see you in the next lesson