Seven Spiritual Exercises to Naturally Overcome Depression

There's no doubt that if you experience painful levelsalive, you do something each day, that someone,
of anxiety and depression, you will be vibrationallysomewhere didn't have the good fortune to do!
disallowing the very things you want to create. This ofTherefore, remember your personal accomplishments
course, leads to more reasons to feel depressed.and the things you have to be grateful for! Do this by
Your first decision is to decide that what you want iskeeping a victory log. Write in your log every day a
simply Peace of Mind!minimum of 3 accomplishments.
There are simple spiritual exercises that you can do toIt doesn't matter how small they are, write them down.
push through the inertia of depression to begin slowlyThey can be past accomplishments or current, but you
but systematically overcoming your lower levelare not allowed to sleep until you can write down 3
emotions and feelings of negativity, to eventually get tothings that you are proud of yourself for, every day!
a place of pure, positive vibrations.4 - Use Emotional Freedom Technique to eliminate
Disclaimer: I am not qualified to give advice on how toyour fears, doubts, worries, and your shameful, guilty, or
treat depression and therefore nothing here should beapathetic thoughts and emotions.
misconstrued as advice or counsel. If you areIn just 3 minutes, you can use this simple, tapping with
depressed, please see a qualified physician orintentions on your body's meridian points to eliminate
therapist. If you have been prescribed medications, doyour negative thoughts.
not do anything without consulting your doctor. AnyIf you visit Gary Craig's site, there are tons of
suggestions that this article may propose, are simplytestimonials about individuals healing their short-term
suggestions on how one might use the law ofand even life long bouts of depression.
attraction as a natural remedy for depression, anxietyTry these Releasing statements:
or any emotional distress. Should you choose toEven though I feel depressed and don't know why
experiment with your depressed feelings and theseEven though I feel worried that my negative thoughts
spiritual exercises, please consult your physician andare going to poison my creative abilities
accept full responsibility for your choices.Even though I feel anxious because I know I'm
Some basic laws of physics here can be applied. Thesabotaging my own success
inertia of your particular depression depends upon theEven though I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
mass of your negative thoughts. If you've been havingTry these Implanting statements:
depressed thoughts for years, then you have a massI choose to be willing to let these thoughts and feelings
larger than someone who happens to be in ago.
one-month slump.I choose to trust in the Divine for complete and total
When you think of these depressing thoughts as ahealing, now.
mass, for example, a toxic onion spoiling your magneticI choose to courageously and boldly do what must be
frequency (the field that surrounds you that is eitherdone, now.
attracting or repelling what you want,) then you canI choose to be optimistic.
estimate what kind of force you're going to have toI choose to make peace with what is.
apply in order to extinguish the toxicity, and eliminate5 - Use Dr. David Hawkin's Map of Consciousness
the depression. The greater the mass, the greater theUsing his map, you can intentionally walk yourself up
inertia, the greater the friction required to change thethe vibrational scale, transcending the lower level,
direction of the negativity.depressed thoughts and emotions and raising your
Roll a pencil across the table and eventually it willconsciousness to a place of peace, joy, love, and
come to a stop. The force that acts upon the pencil totranquility. The more you do this, the easier it becomes,
make it stop is called friction. With the law of attraction,and the faster you'll get there next time.
you can use the friction of positive intentions to impose6 - Launch a happy Daily Living Vision
an equal and opposite force, causing the depression toEvery day, launch a living vision that includes what you
stop and the good feeling thoughts to thrive.want your everyday emotional well-being to look like.
To counter the mass of energy surroundingFor example:
depressed thoughts, you must be willing to applyI am so grateful to experience such joy in my
enough conscious creation thoughts and techniques toeveryday existence. I am free to be me and I feel at
cause the 'depression pencil' to come to its own stop.peace with what is at all times. Just this morning, as I
Here are seven simple spiritual exercises to naturallywas sipping my soothing cup of coffee, I was listening
release depression: (Not in order of importance)to the birds and feeling so happy about simply being
1 - Meditate!alive and well. I don't know what tomorrow will hold, but
Don't tell yourself that you've tried it and it just doesn'tI do know that I feel more and more at peace and in
work for you. Meditation is a learned skill that anyonejoy, every day. I know that I was born to be happy
can do, with time, patience and practice; you absolutelyand I claim this as my normal level of existence from
can achieve the promise of being closer to Godthis point forward. I am incredibly grateful for the
through meditation.opportunity to be so loving towards others and to be
Meditation is a simple act of releasing your thoughtsso loved. I am inspired to be at the right place, at the
and communing with God. This one act alone canright time to make a difference, to make my life count
support you in achieving that state of serenity andeven in the smallest of ways. I acknowledge my
peaceful acceptance that is crucial to manifestinggreatness and I give thanks! I claim peace, joy, love,
what you want easily and effortlessly. The resourceand harmony to be my moment to moment
that I recommend is the HoloSync Program.expression!
2 - Seek out things that feel good!7 - Pray!
Anything that you can do to feel better; to get yourFind time to ask God to support you in your desire for
attention upon what you have to be grateful for, whatfulfillment, peace, serenity and joy. Your prayers will
you have to be joyous about is going to set you onalways be answered when you hand it over.
the path of feeling better.Surrender to what is by accepting all things as perfect
If you feel good when you hold a baby, then volunteerand then hand your fears, worries, doubts, and all levels
at a woman's shelter, a child advocates organization,of anxiety over to the omnipotent presence of God.
or an orphanage.I know from personal experience, that when we are
If you feel good when you are out in nature, thendepressed, it's hard to make ourselves get out,
MAKE time every day to sit under a tree and listen toexercise, eat right etc. However, this is what is required
the birds.to begin building a mass of positive intentions that is
If you feel good when you read a good book, thenlarger than the mass of negative, depressed thoughts.
MAKE time every day to enjoy a chapter.Your work is to release your limitedness and accept
If you used to love memorizing jokes when you wereyour unlimitedness. Seek the presence of God within
a kid, go to the library and read joke books.through your spiritual pursuits, and any and all
If you used to love to paint, pick up adepression will be removed. It is impossible to realize
"paint-by-the-numbers-kit" and begin painting.your unlimitedness and simultaneously feel depressed -
3 - Remember Your Alamo! Keep a Victory log!the two cannot co-exist.
You want to remember that every day that you are