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Meditation Works as Well as Medication to Beat Depression

By Mike Adams, December 8, 2008 | Key concepts: Meditation, Depression and Antidepressants

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A study just published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology reveals that meditation is just as good as medication for treating depression, even serious depression.

In other words, you can drop the drugs, pull up a yoga mat, and just meditate your way to happy times instead of popping pills.

The meditation approach also has the advantage of not causing you to kill yourself or others around you -- those are behavioral side effects well known to be related to conventional antidepressant drugs.

Of course, meditation takes more time than popping a pill, which makes it less appealing to many consumers, but it does have the benefit of being essentially free.

Perhaps we'll see a new bumper sticker that says, "Don't Medicate. Meditate!"

Personally, I think meditation and other self-actualization arts are very valuable, but don't forget your basic nutrition, too. I've met plenty of people who meditate, do yoga, practice energy healing and still have health problems. You know why? They're vitamin D deficient and don't get enough sunshine.

Your best strategy? Meditate under the sun. It's also known as sunbathing.

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