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highlander35

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Level 2 - feeling depressed
« on: March 11, 2009, 06:38:49 AM »
Hi All,

I've just started level 2. I don't find the bells or anything else annoying, but I have noticed that I've started feeling really depressed after the second session of listening. Is this normal? (I usually listen before I go to bed at night as it's the only time I get peace for 30 minutes as I have kids!)

I did use Holosync last year for about six months and found it to be very ineffectual so I stopped using it. I did read about people getting emotional upheaval with Holosync but I did not experience anything at all.

Is the depression I'm feeling something like this? Has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks


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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2009, 09:14:23 AM »
Depression is often a side effect of any approach to meditation, and regular physical exercise is the best way to treat depression. The important thing is that resisting the depression is the best way to make it last longer. Even just the feeling that it is wrong to feel depressed is resistance. Bill Harris suggests using techniques that balance the hemispheres of the brain as a way of getting through negative reactions without resisting them. One of the main things he suggests is alternate nostril breathing, which is a technique from Hatha Yoga. I'll admit that I found all that too involved during the times I felt particularly depressed. I found a technique that is based on imagining drawing in everything you need when you breathe in and releasing the things that no longer serve you when you exhale. I just think "accepting" on the inhalation and "releasing" on the exhalation. It really doesn't make a lot of logical sense, so the first two years it did nothing for me. It wasn't until I was able to just do it and hope for the best that it started to work for me, and now I do it regularly even when I'm feeling good.

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2009, 11:05:53 AM »
I just think "accepting" on the inhalation and "releasing" on the exhalation. It really doesn't make a lot of logical sense, so the first two years it did nothing for me. It wasn't until I was able to just do it and hope for the best that it started to work for me, and now I do it regularly even when I'm feeling good.


I like this yeah. I've been kind of doing it myself unknowingly for some time.

Also @highlander35 - is it depression or more of a grief?

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 03:35:00 PM »
Thanks for the reply guys,

Actually come to think of it it is more of a grief feeling than depression. It was quite strong straight after the second session, lasted all day. Seems to be going now.

Weird!

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2009, 06:10:34 AM »
Grief is a good thing - it connects you with your inner self!

That is not to say you must be grieving all the time, but when it does happen, don't resist it 0 just let your emotions flow through you and experience them fully.

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2009, 12:29:26 AM »
yes, I have experience that depression during that time.

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2009, 09:45:03 PM »
I experienced something similar. I wouldn't call it depression in my case so much, but it was a feeling of discomfort and a drop in my self-belief. Maybe that is the same thing.

However, the purpose it served me was to notice that I do have moments of a lack of belief in myself and this was magnified to the point of me having no choice but to actually see it, which then gives me the awareness to clean up my thinking so to speak.

I am on level 3 now. I had quite a breakthrough on level 2.
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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2009, 04:52:32 AM »
As we've said before on the forum, this kind of thing *can* sometimes happen.

It's what occurs when you get emotional blockages, perhaps even blockages you aren't consciously aware of. These soon break through and you get to the other side. "It's always darkest before the dawn" as they say.

You'll soon blast through: not everyone has these, but they soon pass.

If you feel too overwhelmed, give BrainEv a break for a day or two, then rejoin. Slow down your progress if it's too much for you.

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2009, 03:19:54 AM »
Hello

I don't know if it's lack of sleep these last days, but since 3 days I feel rather sad and discouraged, while I'm in my second week of level 2.
It could be coincidence, but if it's related to the current level, I'm waiting for the positive "breakthrough" some of you mentionned at the same point of progress :)

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2009, 11:30:41 PM »
Depression is not a problem at all. Each of us reacts differently based on the
state of our brains and what we bring into it. This type of stimulus helps us deal with the
issues that we have suppressed and put down before.

The "depression" is simply how you are processing whatever is coming up for you to deal
with. You have seen others post their comments on the board that they may be really
agitated or going deep or not going deep...whatever. All are just processing, however
needed, of the internal histories of what each person carries.

Anything that happens in these responses should be fine. It is how your brain is dealing
with it. If the feeling is overwhelming, just back off for a while, a day or two, and then
continue. This is growth....it is good.

Just enjoy and grow.

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #10 on: November 16, 2009, 09:52:55 AM »
The feeling of sadness didn't last, but on the other side, "breakthrough" didn't come either...
I'm patient and will continue : at the time, last week in level 2.
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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2010, 08:57:45 AM »
 Started listening to level II yesterday. It was interesting. I liked it from the go.
 The bell or some gong sounds, loud ones, didn't bother me. In fact it help me getting on track. I might be thinking
something else and suddenly that loud gong sound appear out of nowhere and it sent vibrations down my spine
and all over the body. It was very soothing. Little bit of fogginess in my head this morning.
I don't remember listening to the whole session though, probably dozed off.

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2010, 02:02:05 AM »
Hi - I'm into my third day of Level 2.  Like quite a few people in this thread, the bells and gongs don't worry me, in fact the overlapping tones of those sounds are faintly pleasurable.  I've been feeling a bit weird in the head today.  I had a job interview this morning and really bombed out, couldn't focus properly.  After the interview, I started feeling depressed.  I didn't have these reactions during Level 1 at all (which I found to be personally inspiring and full of success stories).  I have decided to take the position that God/ the Universe doesn't want me to go down the career path associated with that job interview. Hopefully I will feel better about things tomorrow.

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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2010, 11:46:18 AM »
"I have decided to take the position that God/ the Universe doesn't want me to go down the career path associated with that job interview. Hopefully I will feel better about things tomorrow."

Good decision I think; A door doesn't close without another one opening, make lemonade from the lemons that life sometimes gives you, all that sort of stuff. Our expectations determine to a large degree our results and I'm expecting BrainEv to allow me to retrain my expectations (conditioned reflexes) in a conscious (aware) state.


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Re: Level 2 - feeling depressed
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2010, 10:44:39 PM »
After a week of Level 2, I wanted to report that the brain fog cleared up after a couple of days, but the feelings of depression (grief??) have persisted.  I have always been an unemotive kind of guy, but recently I have had the weird experience of crying/tearing-up while watching movies (fortunately I was by myself at the time and my kids didn't notice :-)  I have also been having turmoil at work from my supervisor, which for me is highly unusual.  The boss told me that I needed to 'tone down' when talking to the new staff arriving this week.  I told him that I didn't know what he was talking about but he said that I had the tendency to be over the top in some of my comments.  Still thinking about what all this means...

On the positive side, my thinking has been a lot sharper recently.  I went to a Trivia Night last night and really held my own by contributing several answers.  My table actually won the first prize (including cash, wine and chocolates).  I have never been on the winning table before - awesome!

All up, I would have to say that Level 2 has been much more of a challenge for me than Level 1.  It looks like I am being forced to confront some emotions, beliefs, behaviors and conditions that I thought I had left behind many years ago.  Looking forward to riding the rest of the roller-coaster...

 


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