#1305 - Insight Into Depression

The Sadhguru Podcast - Of Mystics and Mistakes

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Self-improvement, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education, Science, Health & Fitness, Hinduism, How To, Religion, Religion & Spirituality, Life Sciences, Mental Health

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🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this discourse "Insight Into Depression", Sadhguru explains that in most cases of depression a person is simply generating intense thoughts and emotions that are working against them and that in many ways, 70% of all illnesses are self-created. Set the context for a joyful, exuberant day with a short, powerful message from Sadhguru. Explore a range of subjects with Sadhguru, discover how every aspect of life can be a stepping stone, and learn to make the most of the potential that a human being embodies. Conscious Planet: https://www.consciousplanet.org Sadhguru App (Download): https://onelink.to/sadhguru__app Official Sadhguru Website: https://isha.sadhguru.org Sadhguru Exclusive: https://isha.sadhguru.org/in/en/sadhguru-exclusive Inner Engineering Link: isha.co/ieo-podcast Yogi, mystic and visionary, Sadhguru is a spiritual master with a difference. An arresting blend of profundity and pragmatism, his life and work serves as a reminder that yoga is a contemporary science, vitally relevant to our times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Welcome to the podcast, Sub-G, of Mystics and Mistakes.
0:42.3	Sadguru, why do I get depressed?
0:48.3	And is there a way to come out of it?
0:51.3	If you are capable of causing depression to yourself, I am saying this, not without any concern
1:05.0	for your illness or not due to lack of compassion, because that is the nature of what's happening to you.
1:17.1	If you are causing depression to yourself, you are able to generate substantial amount
1:23.8	of intense emotions and thoughts, but in the wrong direction.
1:31.6	If you don't have very strong emotions, very intense thoughts about something, you cannot
1:36.8	get depressed.
1:42.1	It is just that you are generating thoughts and emotion which work against you, not for you.
1:49.0	So you are strong enough to cause depression to yourself.
1:55.0	Because for you to cause a mental illness for yourself, unless you're pathologically ill,
2:07.6	which is just a small number of people, rest are all self-created.
2:12.6	Most of them are self-created.
2:15.6	A few are pathologically ill. It's, they cannot help it.
2:19.3	It just comes from within because of genetic and other factors.
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