Seems pretty useless to meditate much (aiming for real results) if one is very anxious or depressed. Sort of like running with mononucleosis.
I've spent months in a rut, and now that I'm slowly just feeling better in general, my baseline keeps improving with minimal effort.
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For me it helps when anxious (“slow down, deep breaths, you’re okay”) but I can’t imagine it helping when depressed. In my (narrow, limited, personal) experience depression is a lockdown that needs to be broken with screaming and crying, triggered by appropriate stimuli
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I’ve found it enormously helpful personally.
Maybe simply by giving me the patience to wait it out.
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Glad if it's been helpful for you. The (aiming for real results) was really the key bit, and "much".
Meditating a bit was good. I found that trying to meditate more just made me frustrated. But, YMMV.
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The greatest help tho is not the meditation I do whilst depressed, it’s all the accumulated meditation I’d already done by that point.
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Yes, the accumulated work counts for the most.
One time I spent two weeks almost too depressed to do anything that wasn't going to get me punished if I didn't.
It ended when I got a strong urge to buy some new jeans. Just accomplishing something so minor felt like a huge win.
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