Meditation and serontonin production

Hi,

In my desperate fights to beat SAD I have tried combining loads of things. I have tried meditation and self-hypnosis.

I found meditation can really help overcome the 'despair' factor and by counteracting depressive thoughts and sort-of resetting your brain, you can avoid the downward spirals when one upsetting symptom causes another. I still find the sun and St John's Wort the most powerful solutions though.

Yep I meditate with eyes closed and have a meditation bench that is so shaped if I go to nod off I fall flat on my face so I aviod nodding off.

Overall I find it very relaxing in that all the usual symptons like depression can be controlled and of course the deeper you go you get to the stage of the little things that where bugging you don't seem so bad after looking at them in a very clear mind.

In full winter I will meditate in morning and night just after light box in morning so at least im awake and not libel to hit face on floor..

A good reading on starting meditation is on:

http://users.erols.com/peterbb/

Hello,
well my indian spirit guide (could be guru Ananda Yogi!) says I should start learning meditation (in a recent reading by a medium). I will be taking two days off a week from september (kids going to primary school and reducing my hours at work) for the first time in four years so will have the time available to do it. Who knows though I get put off easily................. :roll:

Depends what you're meditating on guys?