2 Disidentify with your Feelings
Don't identify with the emotions that you are feeling. That means don't say to your self, "Here we go again, it’s my same old trip. I am a worrier, I am depressed, I am frustrated". No you're not. Say instead, "There is worry in here, or there is depression in here, but I am not the worry, I am not the depression". Any emotion that you feel simply comes to pass! And like clouds move across the sky 'these too will pass'. And they always do…eventually!
The more you engage the emotion, which also means the more you resist the emotion as a feeling that you do not want, the stronger it will become.
The more we identify with our emotional states the more we expect them to come. We expect to feel them. And if you expect them, they will come. If you have experienced depression for some time it means you have made depression a deep habit. It’s usually the accumulation of many moments of sadness over time. Perhaps you have been prescribed some form of temporary medication to kick start the chemicals in the brain. This may alleviate the mood (for some it seems to strengthen it) but it won’t give you the power to change the thinking patterns that originally created and sustained the mood in the first place. These thought patterns come from a deeper place within your consciousness. Sometimes, if the habit of depression is deeply embedded, a balance of medication and meditation is more effective. Once the meditation restores your ability to control both the quantity and quality of your think ing the medication can be lessened and gradually eliminated.
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