Meditation can help manage depression when practiced
daily. According to medical experts, a ten minute session on a daily basis
gives us a greater sense of control over our thoughts, our emotions, and our
lives. Even if you are currently taking a prescription to help with depression,
meditation can be a powerful tool for overcoming the condition.
Meditation helps with depression by focusing our minds
to stop attaching to negative thoughts and emotions. When we meditate, we learn to relax and let thoughts drift in and out without feeling the need to identify
with one specific thought and emotion. This exercise lets us see that all
problems, thoughts and emotions are ever-changing, coming and going.
Meditation has also been able to create happiness in
the mind by stimulating certain parts of the brain. Studies have shown people
whose brains showed the most happiness were monks and highly experienced
meditators. Meditation creates calm, love, and serenity in the brain, combating
depression and negative thoughts.
Compassion created in the mind during meditation also
creates happiness with the aim to develop love for others, wishing them peace.
These happy thoughts towards others cultivate a sense of well-being in our
minds that causes depression to disappear. The longer we practice regular
meditation, the happier we become.
It would great for you if you can practice this once a
day for 20-30 minutes. You know, nobody can guarantee that you will beat
depression with meditation only, but be sure that you can have amazing results
if you practice it regularly.
Meditation for depression will get you away from your
tensions. It is not escapism, but a simple and effective way not to allow
symptoms of depression to control you. The point is you to have back the
control over your life.
Never get discouraged, never loss your will to help
yourself. After few months (and sometimes even after few weeks) of disciplined
and proper meditation for depression, you will again feel the beauty of life.
You deserved it.
