Getting started with mindfulness and letting go of your depression

Recognizing that you can train your mind to calm down begins the process of overcoming your depressed state of mind. In order to gain wisdom in overcoming your sadness or depression it is important to recognize how valuable your life is! Every human life is a gift and recognizing this begins a valuable process to gaining peace of mind and ultimately happiness! Depression can be worked on in mindfulness meditation. Learning to become mindful is a big step. Mindfulness gives you better perspective of what is happening in the present moment. You want to begin your process of understanding by noticing what triggers your sadness and/or depression? This includes looking back over what might have been the cause and condition. By understanding the ongoing cause, you will be able to remove the cause. Frustration, dissatisfaction and fear can be a cause and they can keep the mind depressed and searching endlessly. Practicing mindfulness allows you to recognize the moment your sadness or depression starts to arise. The moment you ‘catch yourself in the act’ of sadness, start to train your mind to let this sad thought go. Learn to breathe through your sadness or negative thought. Breathing consciously with the whole body focused on the ongoing rhythm of breath in and out, will calm the body and in turn will calm the mind. The more attention given to your breathing, the less attention is available to fuel your sadness or depression. This sounds good in theory but how can this practice really change your depression? Slowly the wisdom of calming your mind guides you and you start to see how your mind can change from a depressed state to a calm state. You start to see how identifying your harmful patterns of thought, training your mind to calm down, will bring a positive state of mind. Next week - The wisdom of mindfulness and Depression