Dealing with Depression

Dealing with Depression

Meditation is Medication for the soul!

Depression is a call from the soul to learn to deal with the emotional sadnes. At the very core of sadness is the message that we have disconnected from our own soul. We have closed off our hearts to ourselves. To deal with this sadness we must go within. Sadness is a very personal emotion. We think events outside ourselves make us sad. But in reality, no one can make us sad but ourselves.

To deal with depresssion requires embracing our feeelings of sadness. We are sad because we are not experiencing the love that we came here to experience in human form. We must find out why we are not experiencing love.

Depression is initiated by the soul to oblige us to confront and resolve our inner conflicts. It doesn't feel good and it requires patience and disciplined work.

We are obliged to experience grief, sorrow, pessimism and loneliness but we are not obliged to indulge in these feelings. And we have to understand that these feelings are generated by a lack of self-love.

The problem is, of course, that our hearts are closed-blocked off by bad experiences and unexpressed emotions. Sadness and depression never really goes away until we find the gold love in our own hearts.

Depression invites us to turn inward so that we can discover the cause of our pain and find resolution, freedom and empowerment.

Some of the most popular ways that we have learned to use to sever connection with our souls and the Divine include:

1. unexpressed and unhealed emotions

2. negative thoughts and limiting beliefs

3.attachments to presons and things that do not promote our enlightment

4.a lack of purpose and commitment to our own spiritual path.

4.lack of appropriate outlets for our personal creative expression

5.unresolved conflicts that we let rule our minds and behavior.

However, depression is a syptom of a deeper problem that we can't identify. Our inability to connect with our own self-love and xperience connection with the Divine is the most fundamental of these unidenifying problems.

Yoga and meditation

Yoga and meditation were designed to cultivate the connection with our soul. Meditation is medication for the soul because it changes the biochemistry of our brain.

With this particular meditation we can change the biochemistry of our bodies and brains. We feel happy for no apparent reason. This happens because the channels of the brain that connect us with higher states of consciousness and love are accessed and opened. As we practice these exercises and meditations, we experience who we really are.

Meditation to get out of depression

Instructions

Sit in easy Pose with a straight spine, extend the arms straight forward, parallel to the ground. Close the right hand in a fist, wrapping fingers of the left hand around it, bases of palms touching , thumbs together and pulled up straight. Eyes are focused on the thumbs.

Inhale for 5 seconds, and, without holding the breath in, exhale for 5 seconds, and then hold the breath out for 15 seconds. Continue the cycle, starting with 3-5 minutes and working up to 11. Progress slowly. You can also work up to holding the breath out for 1 full minute.