Depression, Mind, Other Techniques

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Continuing the previous thread on depression. I would state that depression is

the feeling of emptiness following emptiness such that one always feels empty

and powerless to create anything more for oneself that will ever pan out, and

will only continue to feel empty nomatter what comes. There are techniques in

addition to rudraksha that can start mounting up gains that will be felt quickly

and make reverberations into the future. I think the attitude one should have

is to just do anything good, anything. And to that end here are a few good

things to do:

Mantras - any mantras are good; a person usually chants a mantra anyway. Some

depressed people chant, "I'm just going to screw it up/fail" over and over, so

instead choose from some mantras instead. You will accrue the benefit of those

holy vibrations. In fact I would say that sometimes some of you depressed

people were very holy in the past and have not done well in today's world

because the holy means of making peace of mind have not been in your upbringing

or personal domain. There are some mantras called combination bija mantras that

can be repeated by everyone and they create waves of beneficience. They

steadily incline the mind to higher vibrations and often one can find that they

feel like the little train that could instead of the little ham in the truck.

Here's a few - Lakshmi/Ganesha-abundance/removal of obstacle combo-shreem gum

shreem. Trishakti for personal power combo-Im Shreem Kreem. Protection/removal

of enemies combo-Hleem Doom Hleem. Bhairavi/Kali-Protection/strength/good

fortune combo-Brahm Kreem Brahm. Also known as short Mahamrityunjaya kavacha or

armour for all around protection and health is - Om Hroum Joom Sah. These I

have gotten from ISSPLIST from a follower of Narayan Dutt founder of

Mantra Tantra Magazine. They can be said by anyone at any time anywhere. I

daresay that here is a simple thing the depressed can do always - just repeat

some mantras either silently or aloud and over time big benefits will accrue.

Some may find instant upliftment because you may well have already completed

sadhanas for these deities during some past life.

I also recommend any and all Ganesha/Ganapaty/Vinayaka mantras for removal of

obstacles because they also have side benefits of bringing peace of mind.

Excercise-I recommend Tai Chi to everyone on earth. It is a slow movement

excercise where winning is never the question, where getting better is not the

outcome where merely going through the motions is the whole point. Out of this

seemingly pointless excercise one may well find the true point of life. At any

rate, people of all temperament can benefit from this. People that move too

fast will slow down and wont pull muscles, people with muscles will get limber

and quieten their minds, fat people will move and not feel competition with

others or even with themselves to excell at something difficult.

Worship-choose any deity and just make some small gestures of worship. Give a

flower, a pretty stone, a drop of water. One can take one's own religion and

use a cross or David star. Or a Siva Linga or rudraksha or shank. Just know

that God watches and when you make small motions of devotion whatever the

motivation then God also makes some motions back at cha.

Self-Control-this is the one noone wants to hear but by controlling desire even

in small ways for moments one can eventually defeat the Goliath of what seem

like out of controll impulses. If you smoke a pack a day make it 19 cigs

instead. If you eat fourteen twinkies make it thirteen. If you can't stop

masturbating the cut it back a little. Just do anything good. That is my

philosophy, and it has worked for me. I used to be hopeless, now I have hope.

If I can do it so can anyone. Keep the faith and don't listen to those who are

negative-ever. If they wont shut up the just chant one of the mantras inside and

you will be counteracting the negative all the while.