Overcoming Cold Depression
In life, we’ve been betrayed and our heart has been broken. We can become angry and reactive, frustrated and hopeless. Some people manage to relieve the pain, adapt, and find healing. Others hold it within and self-alienation intensifies. We’re depressed but not aware of it.
At first, we feel indifference, a dismissive attitude toward life. Over time, it becomes a corroding thread through the fabric of our life. We want to destroy everything. We feel nothing responds to us. This leads to the core syndrome of separation from our True Self. Our word is no longer dependable. Our character gives way to caricature; consciousness to defensiveness. Values are reduced to judgments. Spiritual and inspirational urges are suppressed and rejected.
This is Cold Depression:
A systematic response to stress… an unexpressed anger. It is a feeling of hopelessness, of no spirit left, we feel empty. It is a built-in depression, we feel limited, small, neglected, and rejected. Cold Depression is desperation. It is about our separation from our spiritual nature, from God.
Life doesn’t matter, neither do society nor relatives, and we’re in constant pain. We believe this is just the way things are and the pressure grows.
We get triggered easily and hijacked away from our grace, integrity, and intention. We distance ourselves rom what we value or we drift into a dull sense of just existing - not fully living.
25-30% of people experience this fight against their own consciousness.
In this state we:
can’t make immediate decisions
can’t take risks
can’t feel or express love
can’t tolerate conversation/get easily overwhelmed
can’t do normal things in life
The Time is Now
This condition will only increase as we transition to the Aquarian or Information Age and as we experience shifts in environments and relationships. We need to adapt our self, our consciousness, and our nervous system to the challenges of these new times.
We Can Thrive
To thrive during this shift we need to master our mind. We need to cultivate self-trust and self-love. In order to realize this we need intuition so that we can avoid reacting emotionally and act effectively, as sensitive self-sensory humans, aware in any situation of what is really happening. We acquire the ability to sense the pattern, meaning and implications of what we hear while in communication with others: to read between the lines and respond appropriately.
Kundalini Yoga Helps
Practicing Kundalini Yoga helps strengthen and rebalance the nervous, glandular, circulatory, and digestive systems directly affected by substances and from the imbalance of stimulation from outside sensory distractions. Accessing this ancient technology, we can counter the bombardment of information so that we can process any situation with a neutral mind.
We can reinvigorate our spirit and fill the emptiness within. We learn to identify the “triggers” that produce distress and use practical tools to bring the consolidation of self. We can integrate yogic tips into practical life through nutritional formulas, breathing exercises and physical exercise. This brings emotional and mental traumas to a state of conscious awareness and builds on our strength of caliber and character.
Here is a simple practice you can try today:
Meditation to Get Free of Cold Depression
Sit in easy pose or in a chair with a straight spine
Clasp your hands in front of your heart with your index fingers extended upwards
Eyes are closed. Sing or chant "Wah-hay Guru, Wah-hay Guru, Wah-hay Guru, Wah-hay Jio." Chant "Wah" from the navel, "hay" from the heart, and "Guru" from the lips.
Continue for 11-31 minutes
To end: Inhale deeply, hold, and concentrate on the sound created from your navel, heart, and lips. Exhale, Inhale deeply: hold and give that cold depression to Wahe Guru. Exhale. Inhale, hold - Give your stress to the Guru, so that life becomes easy. Exhale and relax.
Here is a must-watch video clip (1:09) where Dr. Shanti Shanti explains Cold Depression in simple, relatable terms.