Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 1 (2018-08-01)
Tara Brach
Tara Brach
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🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Healing Depression with Meditation - Part 1 (2018-08-01) - Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness that is our home heals the very roots of depression.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. |
| 0:03.9 | We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference. |
| 0:09.0 | To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com. |
| 0:15.8 | Number Stay and Welcome. |
| 0:28.6 | When I'm welcoming as many of you know, I'm re-welcoming you that are right here in Bethesda. |
| 0:35.8 | And I'm welcoming you who are listening right now and spread around the world and those |
| 0:42.3 | in the future who will be listening on the podcast because it does feel like a wonderful |
| 0:48.9 | community that comes together which brings me to our talk and the title is Healing Depression |
| 0:58.6 | with Meditation. |
| 1:00.9 | And it's the first time I've ever given a specific talk on depression and as I started doing |
| 1:07.2 | it, I realized, this is going to be a two-part talk and it may be that it keeps going. |
| 1:13.5 | We'll see. |
| 1:14.5 | But as many of you know, there's supposedly by count 300 plus million people around the |
| 1:21.9 | world that are depressed, insulating cause of disability in the world. |
| 1:31.7 | And of all of us listening right now, if not ourselves, I'm imagining that we know somebody |
| 1:38.5 | very, very close in who really suffers from major depression. |
| 1:43.5 | And can I just see my hand raised? |
| 1:45.5 | How many here, either yourself or someone you know, really does suffer in this way? |
| 1:51.6 | Can I see my hands? |
| 1:52.6 | I can certainly raise my hand. |
| 1:55.2 | This is most of us. |
| 1:58.6 | And maybe a pause right now, and even inviting you to close your eyes and just sense the many |
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