Cure Your Depression: 5 Simple Meditation Activities You Should Try

In the fast-paced world, everyone experienced depression once in a lifetime. It is just a state in mind where you feel low and unworthy if things repeatedly not done as you wished. Depression is common in kids as well as in adults. Doctors generally prescribe doing meditation along with medications in order to cure depression at a rapid speed. 

If you are suffering from depression, you should try to meditate. Meditation plays a major role in reducing the effects of depression. It will soothe your mind and eradicate negative thoughts that linger in your mind all these days. It will help you to pay attention to your thoughts instead of criticizing yourself over non-trivial matters. When you start paying attention to your thoughts, you can make a judgement to let those negative thoughts go so that you have peace of mind at the end.

Now, you know why you should try meditation to cure your depression. Now it comes to how you could try meditation in your daily routine. Here are some of the tips you can try:

• Be Comfortable

When you are suffering from depression, at this time, meditation plays an importation role. You should feel comfortable while doing all the Asanas so that you will experience peace of mind at the end. You can close your eyes to enchanter different mantras. This will surely help you to soothe your mind.

• Pay Attention To Your Breath

This is the main and important part of meditation. While paying attention to your breath, you will feel light. During this process, keep your breadth normal and start to focus on how you feel during inhaling and exhaling every breath. This will also teach you how important your life is. 

• Shift Your Attention From Your Breath to Body

Now, when you control your breath, you can shift your attention to different parts of your body. It is referred to as Body Scan. 

1. Body Scan Method

Start your body scanning process. Continue to breathe slowly and deeply and pay attention to how you feel by moving one part of your body or next. Do you feel pain or tense in any part of your body? If so, you can add visualization method.

2.Visualization method

In this method, you continue your breath slowly and deeply but now start to imagine the tight muscles loosen and your pain is gone. After experiencing good thoughts, you could now return to focus on the breathing process.

The more comfortable you are with your bodily experience and sensations, the more you will be able to cope up with the changes that come up after practising meditation in the long run.

• Enchanter Mantra

During meditation, your attention may wander. Hence it is best practice to enchanter different mantras to focus on your breathing and stop your mind to wander. You should choose simple phrases like enchanting ''OM'' for three times with deep breathing. These things will increase your focus and helps to eradicate negative thoughts from your mind.  

• Practice Daily

Meditation proves beneficial if you practice it daily. This process takes time to heal depression. You may feel slight changes in your daily life, but if you practice daily, be it 5 minutes, it will surely help you to cure your depression. In the meantime, you should always focus on the positive aspect of meditation.

When you start practising meditation daily, you can able to handle negative thought efficiently. This can reduce you depression to a great level. Depression occurs because you start feeling unworthy. But after practising these tips and tricks, you can control your thoughts and hence cure your Depression in the end.