The wonder of walking meditation for depression

What is walking meditation

Meditating while walking is a way to get the mind to walk with us and to bring a relaxed focus to this everyday pursuit. It’s amazing how different we feel when paying attention to what’s going on around us rather than what’s swirling in our head. When it comes to walking meditation for depression treatment, well not just depression but burnout, anxiety, emotional and mental wellbeing and other related issues, it is hugely powerful when the right procedure, material and programs are followed. One of the most powerful healing tools we use at our depression wellness centre are walking meditation for depression.

At our Center for Healing and Life Transformation which is much like and anxiety and burnout clinic that helps stuck people from all over the world heal has shown us something we never thought we’d see. The data we have collected over the last 13 years on healing depression, trauma, addiction and personality issues probably shocked us the most! We never expected the CQ meditations to have the most profound impacts on peoples healing. Those who wanted healing so badly they could almost taste it, began to taste it! The changes came out of nowhere it seemed and miracles happened.

“Depression is being color-blind and constantly told how colorful the world is.”-Atticus

Mindful Walking as a spiritual or contemplative practise is something anyone of us can start at any time to begin a practice that is so simple, yet so profoundly powerful that the elixir of these two friends, along with the simplicity and the wholeheartedness it brings, can allow you to the space for necessary healing and personal growth. Walk mindfully into the world every morning with intention, silence, gratitude and a deep sense of mindfulness. Allow the thoughts you have to ebb and flow as you start to learn about how to incorporate contemplative walking into your daily practice. Out goes the autopilot.

Our walking meditation for depression sessions are about not knowing just flowing, noticing everything as it is without deep thoughts or questioning. This is a healing space second to none. This in turn allows answers to flow to us as if they are spoken through some kind of ancient and silent language. It is one of the rare pleasures of life today that still costs nothing! How you begin is by re-look at everything you see. Use short words like, tree, bird, water or warmth to describe the energy and delight your senses are taking in.

10 benefits of Walking meditation for depression

1. 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.
2. The benefits of physical exercise and mindfulness practice are enhanced by being outdoors. Get outside.
3. Physical movement, like walking, may help you sleep better at night, so you’ll be less tired and have more energy during the day.
4. While walking meditation for depression healing and stress release 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.
5. 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.
6. “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.
7. 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.
8. 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).
9. 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.
10. Focusing on your breath can help steer your brain away from negative thoughts, improve oxygen intake, and lower cortisol levels.

Try a guided mindful walking meditation for depression

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 depression. 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.

Discover the healing power of Contemplative Intelligence Guided Meditations or CQM’s as we call them for short. We have learned a lot over the last 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 of depression to addiction and generalised anxiety to personality disorders and codependence. 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. Here is a walking meditation to heal depression for you called Body-Heart-Mind 3D Guided walking meditation for depression by Mark L Lockwood

New meditations and our depression healing program

Our Private and homely Depression and Wellness Center, Center for Healing and Life Transformation, is a modern, highly personalized healing center where people maintain their autonomy, comfort and space while healing in paradise with professionals – once and for all. LUXURY ACCOMMODATION ON THE BEACH where you will see every sunrise and sunset from your private bedrooms. Retreats, events, workshops and highly specialised programs designed by Mark L Lockwood BA(hons)(psy) have been helping people heal from depression, burnout, stress, emotional issues, personality disorders from bipolar to BPD, BD, CPTSD, SUD and many, many more. You can see more about our inpatient depression centre here.