Walking Meditation for treating depression is no small discovery. Walking meditation helps you reconnect to your body, sure. This may help reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms as you continue to practice moving with mindfulness. When we add up all the benefits of mindfulness, meditation, movement, contemplation and walking, which is arguably the best exercise anyone can do in the world for various reasons, then we start to see that Walking meditation for treating depression is a no-brainer.
One of the most liked treatments at our centre over the last 12 years or so has always been our walking meditations. They have brought people changes that most people would need to see to believe. We have seen people in short periods of 6-8 weeks, throw their walking sticks into the sea. Others have pulled off their pain machines, thrown away their glasses and even medications while others have even gotten taller and lengthened their stride because of the work. It is beyond profound and Meditation retreats like Dr. Joe Dispenza’s claim even grander achievements that have been backed by scientific research at these events. Now this is what we also do, we research people psychodynamically and emotionally and record their progress through the program. What we are finding so far is simply beyond insane! “We would never have believed in a million years what we have found in terms of healing through our 3D meditation practices across all cultures and through a multitude of different issues from addictions to anxiety to eating disorders”, says Mark.
10 big benefits of Walking meditation for treating depression
- Contemplate and focus your attention when walking. Really observe things with all your attention. Where focus goes, energy flows. Be aware of your bodily senses as you walk.
- The benefits of physical exercise and mindfulness practice are enhanced by being outdoors. Get outside.
- Physical movement, like walking, may help you sleep better at night, so you’ll be less tired and have more energy during the day.
- While walking meditations may not feel like a hard workout for some, they help keep your stride balanced. Balance is a big issue with aging and needs work.
- Aerobic walking coupled with Buddhist meditation three times a week for 12 weeks not only reduced depression but also improved flexibility and balance in a small group of older adults in one study.
- “At its core, it’s a way of training your attention so that, instead of finding yourself lost in difficult thoughts and feelings, you can gain new perspective and insight,” says Dr. Laura Coleman.
- Scientists have associated depression with inflammation in the brain and body. The relationship is cyclical: Higher inflammation is linked to worsened depressive symptoms, while depressive symptoms (such as stress and poor sleep) are believed to increase inflammation.
- Scans have shown that people with depression often experience changes in the structure of key parts of the brain, such as the hippocampus (memory), thalamus (sleep and wakefulness), and amygdala (fear).
- Research sources suggests that walking meditation for treating depression can play a role in activating this nerve, which in turn can lead to improved mood and an enhanced sense of relaxation.
- Focusing on your breath can help steer your brain away from negative thoughts, improve oxygen intake, and lower cortisol levels.
Do a 60 minute walking Meditation
Experience life in 3D with emotions, physiology, psychology and spirituality as you shift your HRV and brain waves energetically to create heightened states of energy that help us to focus, create and move beyond the limits of mind and personality. Find 60 minutes for an intensive and life changing 3D guided walking meditation for healing and life transformation. Understand what CQM Meditations are and how they energetically and cognitively help us access a new sense of self that, with work and practice help us access change in reality.
Mark L Lockwood, author and founder of Center for Healing and Life Transformation says that “Walking meditation for treating depression is where we always start our treatment programs. Movement and mindfulness are so powerful, we know that a shift is created right there and then for people who are seeking healing.” There are many different styles of walking meditation. In the same way that when we say ‘yoga’ meditation doesn’t mean one thing either.” Some Theravada Buddhists, for instance, practice a form of walking meditation that includes walking barefoot or in very light shoes so that they can feel the ground below them. So that they can connect to it. Grounding techniques in meditation are also very popular forms of walking meditations. Other forms of walking meditation combine walking with breathing exercises or visualisations.
Healing depression
“You are the one thing in this world, above all other things, that you must never give up on…Asking for help is the first step. You are more precious to this world than you’ll ever know.”
Lili Reinhart
Discover the healing power of Contemplative Intelligence Guided Meditations, or CQMs as we call them for short. We have learned a lot over the last few decades about the science of getting well. The more we learned and observed about healing, the clearer the model became to us. We started to understand the similarities between depression and addiction, and between generalized anxiety and personality disorders and codependence. By monitoring the data from people all over the world with a multitude of different backgrounds and physical, mental, and emotional issues, we started to see that they healed in the same ways.
We found distinct correlations in how they overcame their presenting issues. Essentially we started the system of healing and change by asking them to stop. Stop doing what was no longer working for them. The obvious retort was how and we provided that answer to how on an unprecedented scale. People began to slow their brainwaves and move beyond their analytical minds, sometimes a few seconds at a time, then a few minutes. Then hours. So we now know it is a process of meditative healing that must be practiced over time. The beta brainwaves had to change in shape before the person could do any changing or even hold onto any visual idea or concept of change at all.
For more information about Walking meditation for treating depression or to come to our Center for Healing and Life Transformation in South Africa call +27824424779 or email centerforhealingandlife@gmail.com
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