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Treating depression with meditationWhile meditation is not the main or only cure to solve problems of depression, a lot of people are turning to it to solve their problems. However, one must remember, that even though it can help with emotional disorders, it is not a magic cure for all ailments, and proper counselling and help must be sought to combat depression effectively. Meditation covers a wide variety of ways which help us to work directly or indirectly with our mental states, so that we achieve the desired change. It tells us that we can, to some extent, choose how to respond to circumstance, and is based on the recognition of that fact. For example, if you are getting tense, hi-strung, or irritable, you decide to let go by simply relaxing both physically and mentally. When this happens, there are two things that are going on. The first is the awareness of our mental state. The second is the ability to shift our mental states in a direction that we desire. Meditation helps us to explore within ourselves. If you are feeling depressed or low, it helps us to become more aware of our needs, and offers us techniques that help us to choose alternative responses and enrich our experiences. Meditation also teaches us of choices. It tells us that even though the choices that we make are limited, with small effects, they do add up over time, and create more profound changes on our outlook in life, and the ability to make good and better choices for our wellbeing in the future. When you are suffering from depression, the choices that you can make are even more limited, but they do exist, and this is what you should understand. Battling depression is a long process, which can be eased into with the help of meditation. Learning meditation implies a couple of things. The first is the cultivation of awareness which enables us to make choices to benefit us, much more easily. The second is learning methods that enable us to alter our mental frames, and prevent us from being “stuck in a rut”. These methods are often not complex at all. They involve simple exercises such as controlling your breathing to calm yourself when you are anxious. It is concerned with learning to move from undesired states such as depression, to states that allow more normal functioning, and peace of mind. Every person who learns to meditate is a truly unique individual. Because of this, he or she works with a unique pattern of conditioning which influences and affects his or her abilities to do certain things, and awareness of change. There a lot of internal and external factors that are both easy and hard to work with. All of us are working with (and to some degree, against) our conditionings. Those suffering from depression have to deal with chemical imbalances that have a strong effect on mental functions. Meditation can go a long way in helping you deal with depression, because it approaches the treatment both physically and mentally. No matter what the source of your depression may be, depression itself, is the best reason to start meditating. |
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