Tara Brach: Healing Depression with Meditation, Part 2

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Tara Brach: Healing Depression with Meditation, Part 2 (2018-08-08)
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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@karigtestam2539 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Tara🌷 thank you so much for this. I have been captured for years in depression. Being unable to exoess my feelings. I cried me throuh your lecture. Your sharing woke my heart and my hope. Thank You for sharing fram your wiseness.

@gavinjones78 4 жыл бұрын

It seems as though this wise person has been following me around my whole life taking notes and observations. It’s so timely in my life that I want to yell it from the highest mountains. 46 years of struggle, a few years in bed, a ton of dedicated “work”, the death of a friend, and BOOM!!!....... it’s me! If you do suffer from depression, watch, rewatch, watch again, and work. Dreams do come true if you are persistent.

@MaryJane-hr9vn 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this! Do you have any other recommendations on what has helped you? Much appreciated :)

@carlaazuakolam8310 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this!!! I feel this. I’m inspired by this

@ts3858 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you...🙏🌺

@majorbarbara1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I remember the grief I felt when my husband left me for another woman. I will never forget how painful that was. It brought up many earlier feelings of abandonment and feeling unlovable and worse, the shame and confusion around feeling used and deceived. For about 6 months, I couldn't eat, sleep, and had impulses to cut myself, (the latter probably to do with preferring physical pain over emotional pain). I was in therapy and it helped to have a place to talk. I had a good friend who could hear my pain and who helped me to get up and out of the house with a five minute morning phone call. The surprise came for me when all of a sudden, I felt more connected to other people. I needed others in a new way and my loss humbled me to where I was open to other people (and their struggles) in an entirely alive way.

@AshleyNord 2 жыл бұрын

My goodness I don’t think I’ve ever resonated with a KZfaq comment more. Thank you so much for sharing this. You’ve perfectly articulated my own journey through loss, grief and healing.

@majorbarbara1 2 жыл бұрын

@@AshleyNord I’m so glad that I am not alone. It took a long time for the pain to subside but I’m happy to say, I’m on the other side. It did get better as people had told me. I did meet someone else and my ex and I are friends! Imagine that! That incident was in 2003. Tough times!

@kefkaesque3 4 жыл бұрын

thanks Tara. These videos were a lifeline in a very stormy dark sea.

@scotchvelo 2 жыл бұрын

Her description of major depression is easily one of the best I've ever heard. Amazingly accurate.

@carlaazuakolam8310 3 жыл бұрын

It is a trance state, you’re so right. That’s how it feels and the ruminating thoughts are brutal. Thanks so much for your wisdom. My biggest challenge is preventing the depression from coming back.

@jenenahansson5892 2 жыл бұрын

The truth frees the mind & gives you tremendous strength & confidence.

@judeskingsbury5549 7 ай бұрын

But it’s not about preventing it from coming back, it’s more about allowing the feelings to come, then practicing all the tools Tara has taught here. We cannot prevent emotions from arising. Sending big love (as a fellow sufferer of severe depression throughout my life). Healing trauma and practicing Mindfulness is my greatest asset.

@smroog 3 жыл бұрын

Again, so much WISDOM in your words, So much LOVE in your heart. Thank God for your presence in my life, whatever that God is. Love T

@jenenahansson5892 2 жыл бұрын

You are a beautiful soul, Tara. I am so grateful that my therapist sent me to your rain tape. Thank you!❤

@nelekindt4455 5 жыл бұрын

thanks Tara, for your loving kindness and wise words. your words and energy are healing

@maxsheerin8219 Жыл бұрын

Myself an myex of 3 weeks are in such a bad place. I listen to these talks and know what I have to do. I'm struggling the correct coping mechanisms. I will still call him my partner because I haven't left him, just left the environment. He is, as you describe, disconnected. I feel so sad for him and us and watching him drinking his mind and body to destruction. He worked and drank to exhaustion and is still drinking. His loss of interest in his life and love and work now. He is barely functioning. I have taken so much from part 1 so far I hope I can offer him some hope to find himself again.

@jms4406 5 жыл бұрын

I think what helps with depression too, is not always having a thought that there is a problem in you that you need to change. People will become briefly happy and then check themselves inside and try to fix it. Or they will get disturbed and feel that disillusionment is just around the corner and wonder what's wrong with me? Then focus on self again. It's like muddying the water rather than letting it settle and clear.

@rosemoon8072 Жыл бұрын

depression can also be a biological issue .. for example antibiotics can produce serious depression and anxiety if they are used to stop symptoms that are an expression of something that needed to come out, and becuase they wipe out the gut flora .. a lot of depression is caused by this, so a lot of it cannot be healed without also healing the body .. no matter how much you meditate. But listening to Taras talks is the best antidepressant itself !! I listen to her talks over and over in the hope I will eventually be able to easily tap into this wisdom throughout the day !!! I have found that KINDNESS to myself is a very powerful and real key to transforming experience .. and Tara emanates that kind presence she speaks about.

@jenenahansson5892 2 жыл бұрын

What if you have lost your parents, all siblings are dead. The only son I gave up for adoption. I found him with a PI when he was 36. He was on drugs so we could not have a close relationship. But, he was so happy to meet me. It healed my heart to see him (I had divorced his father who did not want me to keep him). He passed away five years ago in a car accident. I am remarried to a wonderful man for 37 years and had a lot of great therapy. Retired 14 years ago, I now get sinus infections often and miss my high tech job which was my family. So,hard to think of many things to be grateful for. I am on antidepressants and have a zoom therapist. But, going through a very difficult time being in locked down during this pandemic.

@xenasbottombitch5328 Жыл бұрын

Hop on a plane ✈️ see a concert in Germany

@jenenahansson5892 Жыл бұрын

@@xenasbottombitch5328 no thanks

@elainebraindrain3174 3 жыл бұрын

After listening to several of your guided meditations mindfulness is frightening for me and very difficult. Being kind to myself is a foreign concept. Thank you for the encouragement to try.

@wandersonmeireles6499 Жыл бұрын

Why do you find it frightening?

@musicaangomera 5 жыл бұрын

This woman is in a whole other level. Thanks Tara ❤️

@user-vm3fx6kk9m 5 ай бұрын

great talk & meditation, always calms me down, gets me out of downward spiral

@lucymileo2862 4 ай бұрын

A true blessing

@kwizatzhannahrach 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tara, I was in the hospital and they talked about gratitude letters in group. I think I'll give it a try after your encouragement :)

@lindareif584 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tara! This was so needed💜

@SylviateReh 4 ай бұрын

Thank you, from my deepest bottom of my heart heard, for this teaching 🙏🏼

@SylviateReh 4 ай бұрын

Hard ❤

@melissa48 8 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏻🥰

@tinabinina5893 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tara for this inspirational discussion .

@sallyarterton2702 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@davevillaflor3267 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Tara 🤗♥️

@antoniomonteiroai 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing information! Keep track of the videos, looking forward to watching even more of these

@alyssasmith4515 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Tara!

@pawelsawicki7003 2 жыл бұрын

Great ideas

@xenasbottombitch5328 Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@alexandrugheorghe5610 Жыл бұрын

Cost of living crisis is driving lack of felt safety this makes the social contract weaker. Thinning of the middle class, concentration of wealth in the few percent is driving people to fend for themselves. Less resilience, less nurturing. What kind of a society do we want to be?

@elizabethwatkins8289 5 жыл бұрын

@alexandrugheorghe5610 Жыл бұрын

34:00 what if you don't have a home to go to? What if you end up homeless and exposed? From my personal experience you are stigmatized and disregarded. That's how broken our society is. The western one, at least.