Meditation Mountain - 15 Minute Guided Meditation for Depression and Anxiety

Episode Date: March 15, 2021

This guided meditation for depression is here to help you deal with depression, cope with anxiety and calm your mind. A simple 15 minute meditation to help you stop overthinking or worrying. Dealing with depression and anxiety can overwhelm many of us without warning. Mental health issues are growing rapidly and without many cures. It's hard to know where to turn so guided meditations may be an uncommon choice, but if you're willing to give more meditations a try you might just find that meditations for depression are just what the doctor ordered. Short guided meditations are a chance to take a moment out of your day no matter how you're feeling and be walked through a meditation for depression or an opportunity to learn how to become more mindful. You can meditate at any time of day, here at Meditation Mountain we like to suggest morning and evening meditations as that's a common time most of us are naturally more calm with more free time. But the truth is meditating can be tough so finding the time at all is something worth congratulating yourself for. The causes of depression are vast and many unknown. Sometimes chemical, sometimes situational, all of which take place in some form within our own minds. Dealing with depression in the moment can feel impossible. You can overthink, become anxious or worse. So this 15 minute guided meditation doesn't just need to be for times you feel depressed. The thought's we share are useful to listen to before depression hits as they can become ingrained within your subconscious mind and slowly over time perhaps even help you develop the mental and emotional tools to handle depression in a better way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meditation for depression. Welcome to Meditation Mountain. I am delighted to guide you along this relaxing session, allowing you to gain control over your emotions. Having the choice to let depression fall to the wayside. Ensure that you will not be disturbed for the duration of this season. session so that you can fully relax and unwind. Breathe in and as you breathe out, allow your eyes to close. Get into a comfortable position, happily ignoring the outside world and begin to feel your

body slowly starting to relax. Take a few nice, deep breaths. Imagine that all your muscles are releasing and becoming still and inactive. No need to hold tension right now. Feeling yourself settling down over the next several minutes to allow for this full experience to help release the depressed. Begin to inhale a little deeper, this time through the nose. Expanding with the breath. Exhale out of the mouth. For the rest of this meditation, this process of the breath allows you to relax more and more.

Make a moment to appreciate and acknowledge your commitment to this meditation. right here and right now. You've chosen to begin this practice in order to eliminate depression and become your authentic self. In this relaxed state, you have the freedom to let your worries dwindle and fade. You deserve to, just as everyone does. Breathe in through the nose. Let the fresh air purify you from the inside out. Now is your time to find peace of mind,

which always resides underneath any stress or worries, ready to really find inner balance and see everything in perspective. to see things how they really are under all the sadness and to know that they are peaceful, calm, happy. Use the breath to dig under stress. Breathe. Access, peace. Find it, cultivate it. Embrace it. Breathe. Breathe. First. It could seem as small as a grain of sand, but you can love and nurture something even that tiny. A seed, when nurtured, matures into a giant tree.

Take a long, deep breath in through your nose. Exhale out from your mouth with a sigh. out your inner tranquility, feeling even more grounded and becoming aware of the earth below, cradling and supporting us all. Let the sensations of the earth fill you with deep comfort, relaxing, breathing, letting strength shine from within. It's always there. All you have to do is look. What do you find when you search for peace? Perhaps happiness is tiny right now, and that's perfectly fine. Bringing out the calmness within you

takes practice and dedication, just like exercise or having a healthy lifestyle. If you, If you are feeling anxious, depressed, worried, or scared, just take time to be present again. Get back on track with the power of the breath because following the breath is always in the present moment. Let any thoughts pass by about what happened earlier. What is going to happen next? You cannot control the past or the future. You can control your breath here in the present. Now it's just you and your mind.

Here, you are safe. You are supported. You can get through this. You can get through anything. Take a long, deep breath in through the nose and exhale out through the mouth. Imagine with each breath pushing any negative thought away. You have the ability to clear the mind with the power of your breath, the vital life force. And once again, breathe in.

passionately. Visualize what is stressing you. See it clearly. Feel it and breathe it out. Watching how it disappears. Whenever you are ready, rise from this meditation feeling complete peace of mind and slowly, gently open your eyes. This concludes our practice today. Thank you.