Depression Tip #9: Breathe!💙

Depression tip number nine, breathe.

You often hear about this in relation to anxiety. People will say the way to calm down from anxiety is to take control of your breath, but it applies equally well to depression because whereas anxiety is thoughts about the future and anxiety about future events, depression is ruminating thoughts on the past.

What breathing does is it gives you an immediate sense of calmness, which is great, because it also then gives you space away from the anxiety or away from the depression, away from the thoughts that are really, your mind has latched onto and won't let go. 💙

You can take a moment, focus on your breathing, longer breaths in and a pause out and a pause and repeat. And then you can use that space that you've created to decide what to do about those thoughts. 💙

So you're going to indulge in that ruminative pattern again. Are you going to indulge in that worry about the future? Or are you going to focus on what's in front of you right now? 💙

https://www.epicentering.com/blog/depression-tip-9-breathe