Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.

To make a donation, please visit Tarabrock.com. Namstay. Welcome, my friends. Today's reflection is the second part of a series on depression.

And if you missed part one, it's available on the podcast, I hope you'll catch up with it.

There is a meme, and it goes like this, just saying no prevents teenage pregnancy the way have a nice day cures chronic depression.

And you get it, that depression can feel so intractable when we're inside it.

And there's a growing number of modalities that are offering pathways of healing, including magnetic

stimulation, psychedelics, and our place of attention here, meditation.

And in the last years, there's been a very fast growing body

of research on the benefits of meditation for depression.

So these two talks are exploring several types of meditation that really directly changed the brain by teaching us how to redirect attention,

by widening our perspective, by awakening self-compassion, as we'll explore today,

meditation actually changes the thought patterning

that locks in depression.

And it also does something more basic that I want to name.

The deep suffering of depression is identifying ourselves as a depressed person.

The whole world seems to serve. identifying ourselves as a depressed person.

The whole world seems to circle around the sense of a self

as a depressed person.

And meditation awakens us to intuiting that we're something more.

That within there's a vastness, a depth, a mystery that's really as great as the entire universe. We're not apart from the universe.

Truly, the idea, our story we have of what we are is not the reality.

There's a loving. There's an awareness that's more fundamental.

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