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Published:
March 21, 2016

Managing Depression with Mindfulness For Dummies

Overview

Rise above depression and build a positive future using mindfulness

If you suffer from depression, you know that it′s not something you can simply snap yourself out of. Depression is a potentially debilitating condition that must be treated and managed with care, but not knowing where to turn for help can make an already difficult time feel even more harrowing. Thankfully, Managing Depression with Mindfulness For Dummies offers authoritative and sensitive guidance on using evidence based and NHS approved Mindfulness Based Interventions similar to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to help empower you to rise above depression and discover a renewed sense of emotional wellbeing and happiness. The book offers cutting edge self-management mindfulness techniques which will help you make sense of your condition and teach you how to relate differently to negative thought patterns which so often contribute to low mood and depression.

The World Health Organization predicts that more people will be affected by depression than any other health problem by the year 2030. While

the statistics are staggering, they offer a small glimmer of hope: you aren′t alone. As we continue to learn more about how depression works and how it can be treated, the practice of mindfulness proves to be an effective tool for alleviating stress, anxiety, depression, low self–esteem, and insomnia. With the tips and guidance offered inside, you′ll learn how to apply the practice of mindfulness
to ease your symptoms of depression and get your life back.

  • Heal and recover from depression mindfully
  • Understand the relationship between thinking, feeling, mood, and depression
  • Reduce your depression with effective mindfulness practices
  • Implement positive changes and prevent relapse

Whether you are struggling with low mood or simply wish to learn mindfulness as a way of enriching your life, Managing Depression with Mindfulness For Dummies serves as a beacon of light and hope on your journey to rediscovering your sense of wellbeing, joy and happiness.

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About The Author

Robert Gebka, a former Zen Buddhist monk, is a mindfulness trainer and executive director of the Dorset Mindfulness Centre. He works in mental health for Dorset HealthCare NHS Foundation Trust and teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses to the general public as well as business organisations. Robert is also a member of the National Counselling Society as well as the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.

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CHEAT SHEET

Mindfulness has been scientifically proven to help you reduce stress, anxiety and depression. It can also empower you to connect with a greater sense of happiness and wellbeing. The journey to healing from depression can be a long one, but with support and help you will regain your sense of balance and emotional stability.

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Here are ten tips that are simple to follow to manage your depression with mindfulness and can act as effective reminders in a similar way that inspirational quotes do. These ten tips can help lift your mood and can potentially help you feel a little bit better about your own situation. Acknowledge that you are already doing it!
With the right support, recovery from depression with mindfulness is possible. It is useful to remember that any healing through depression takes time and is often met with an up and down process of lows, highs, stable periods, lows again, then more stable times leading to another improvement and feeling better.
Mindfulness has been scientifically proven to help you reduce stress, anxiety and depression. It can also empower you to connect with a greater sense of happiness and wellbeing. The journey to healing from depression can be a long one, but with support and help you will regain your sense of balance and emotional stability.
When you’re depressed you may feel like you are the only one who has the problem and that everyone else is happy and normal. This kind of feeling, although very normal, can cause you to feel extremely isolated and causes you to suffer in silence. The truth is that many people who look happy are in fact also depressed and chronically unhappy.
Mindfulness is a lifetime engagement. The purpose of mindfulness isn’t to get somewhere else, but to be where and as you actually are in this very moment, whether the experience is pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. You might find it interesting to know that mindfulness is evidence-based cognitive training which originated more than 2,500 years ago in India and has been approved by the NHS (UK’s government National Health Service).
Mindfulness is now an evidence-based technique used widely for depression by the NHS (the UK’s free public National Health Service). It is also endorsed by NICE or the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence as an approved therapy for the prevention of relapse of depression. There are numerous clinical studies which demonstrate the effectiveness of using mindfulness for people suffering from anxiety and depression.
A few definitions exist of what of mindfulness is. However, understand that the theoretical definitions of mindfulness and the experience of mindfulness are two different things. Understanding the basic theory behind mindfulness can be very helpful, though, and is the first step towards actually experiencing it.
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