10 spiritual depression hacks

Depression is an ugly business. People tend to fall into a set of depressive symptoms and can stay there for decades or even a life time. Here are 10 spiritual depression hacks to change the game around entirely. The effect of feeling depressed and then staying in those symptoms, mindsets and frames of mind can change the very outcome of your life. Not a week goes by where I don’t hear someone say that they think they may have been depressed all their adult lives. One is almost tempted by the regularity of this statement to believe that it’s the new norm. No, it’s not the new norm. Staying stuck for years on end thinking that depression is something you cope with is however a new norm. A norm that needs to go back to not normal at all. Depression and especially depression like traits and symptoms are highly, highly treatable.

By getting familiar with the work and doing the CQ meditations regularly, you’ll get to change your body’s chemistry in a few minutes. You’ll be able to signal new genes, turn off the ones that signal disease, improve your system’s functions and if you go deep enough, you’ll get to experience a profound meditative state – and finally shift consciousness and break free from your illness, dis-ease and the ties that bind the limited mind. 

How to start with the 10 spiritual depression hacks

All you need to do to start with the 10 spiritual depression hacks is be courageous, open and willing. The only thing is that you have to be willing to do the work. Willing to dedicate a moment in your day to sit down, close your eyes and go beyond yourself. Your persona masks. It doesn’t matter what you want in your life – if the energy you keep broadcasting is the one of a victim, nothing changes. You can’t want to experience peace in the world if you’re not willing to first find it inside and then become peaceful. That means be less judgmental, selfish, combative, judgmental and self-obsessed. Life is much, much bigger than any one of us and its time to connect with the bigger picture.

Imagine what your future self will be, think, act, talk and look like. What energy would your dream self radiate into the world? What would people, family, even animals see, notice and feel when they are around you? You need to see this version of yourself to embody it. You need to match your raised energy in your meditations to this divine being without judgement and fear. Allow yourself to connect to your future self and you will become what you are creating. Your mind doesn’t know any difference between what it imagines to be real and what is real yet. The work will bring the images, thoughts and perceptions into your body-heart-mind reality because you are the creator of who you are becoming. 

If you want to heal and transform your life and learn about the real power of the 10 spiritual depression hacks it will take two things. Effort and belief. Put those together and you cannot fail. Why not start change with a walking meditation. Get up and go for a walk. Use headphones and open your body, brain and heart together. What we do with our Walking Meditation for Transformation meditation is create something entirely new in the body, heart and mind. That may sound impossible, yet we have gained scientific data and have testes, and re-tested the work with dozens of people from all over the world. These people who suffered everything from personality disorders, anxiety, deep depressions and some physical and emotional issues that were caused by stress and burnout did the work and then improved. Drastically!

The work is revolutionary for many people because if you have suffered with something for many years that holds you back, and you’re given tools to acutely create improvements for yourself then it’s something to get very excited about. The healings border on the miraculous and the beauty of it all is that the healing is tracked, recorded, analysed and studied by professionals in the human sciences that sometimes find the gains people make through the work almost unbelievable at first.

Without getting to complicated or complex about our Contemplative Intelligence Meditations or CQM’s what people need to know is that if depression for example is stored in one part of the brain and happiness and gratitude in another, we need to shift ourselves physiologically and neurologically for change to happen on a faster and deeper level than most have experienced it before. Enjoy the work. 

The 10 spiritual depression hacks for prepping your body, heart mind for healing

1. Put the right fuel into your system. Food is fuel and not therapy. Go and see a dietician and then follow their suggestions. Eat healthily. Drink lots of water. Make sure you eat plenty of omega-3.
2. Get off your butt. Walk. Walk. Walk. Walking is still the best exercise a human being can do. Like reading and writing are amazing tools for the brain, so walking is for the body, heart, mind. The sunlight, fresh air and visual stimulus will benefit you as well. You will also sleep better.
3. Use your brain and don’t slack off. Do reading and writing activities twice a day. Buy that journal and wrote do people who inspire you and learn from them. Don’t just listen to them, study them.
4. Meditate don’t just medicate if you can help it. Meditate twice a day for 20 minutes each time. Use our meditation playlist. Meditate while you walk with a walking meditation. Put yourself to work #selfwork and get the benefits of that work.
5. LIve one day at a time. Insist on living only 1 day at a time. ‘Just for today’ is an affirmation that you should make a habit to use all the time. Each day has enough worry of its own. The present moment is very powerful so forget the past and leave the future alone. Live in the now, 1 day at a time.
6. Connect to the bigger picture. You are not the bigger picture and neither is your career. Your life’s work os far more important than that. Connect with nature, other people and yourself. Put God first. If you have this order wrong then you know where to start your work today. Reality, or things, only work one way and it is only the truth that will set you free. In this way you will find meaning in life. Take a risk to smile at others and greet them. Pat the dogs you pass and notice the tress, birds and sunsets. Touch water, sand, trees and animals as much as possible. There is power in these connections. Call or message people everyday, like meaningful posts and share them and expect nothing in return. 
7. Embrace the uncertain. Find what Mark calls ‘certainty in change’. You need a strong sense of safety, security and certainty of who you are deep down inside. There can be no change at all without certainty that you can manage the uncertainty of life as it unfolds. You will always be ok, if not great. You will always be able to feed yourself and nurture yourself if you really have to. Take solace in that. Build from here. Use the CQM meditations to help you embrace uncertainty and move out of the addictive past.
8. Start your day right. Work the quintuple T’s. Three Things To Transform Today. Start everyday with jotting down 3 things you can go above today. JFT (just for today). They will add up to something significant over time. Never doubt that putting a few pieces of a puzzle together everyday can create a clear picture of your future reality. 
9. You are not your mind chatter. Un-confuse yourself. Notice and wake up to your internal dialogue. Don’t perpetuate a negative attitude and then expect positive results. The math won’t work. Change what you talk about. Stop gossiping, badmouthing and doomsday chatting with or about people. Think more positively whenever you remember to do so and you will slowly shift you energy, thoughts and emotions around in a positive way. Have a ‘this too shall pass’ mentality instead of being addicted to negativity, which is highly addictive in itself. Avoid black and white thinking because life is not all bad or all good. Find the magical spaces in between these thoughts. 
10. Open your body-heart-mind! Be grateful and give back. As you wake up so thank you 3 times for another chance at finding contentment and joy. Hear a bird tweet, see a red rose, joy on someones face, a happy dog or come across an inspirational song or twee; thank you, thank you, thank you. Meditate and say thank you three times. Eat breakfast and do the same. Give someone an old sweater or a tin of food and they will say thank you to you. Then you will see the miracle of how the universe works. On Yin and Yang. Blessings to you as you try these tips and see the change for yourself. 

For more information about the 10 spiritual depression hacks our Center for Helaing and Life tranformation or our courses get in touch. Call +27824424779 and start your journey. Then, start the best part of your life. It is still yet to come!