It doctor Dave Today, I'm gonna go ahead
and give you a really simple
meditation that's gonna help you through depression and
anxiety and a lot more and you can
do this in your home. You can do
this in your office, your car, not while
you're driving but, do it in a place
this convenient and comfortable for you. It's... I'm
gonna keep it fairly short, but it's gonna
be really effective
at, meditating to combat.
Mental health issues, especially depression and anxiety. I'm
not gonna go into anything else today on
this episode I'm gonna cut keep it clean
after this break only the meditation, But keep
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right away.
Magic mushrooms
Okay. So today, we're gonna go on a
hike.
We're gonna go on a hike. Near my
home. At Salt Lake City,
Utah. It's called the living room, and it's
a really nice hike. And during this hike
when you and I hike together, we're gonna
talk.
And we're gonna talk through some
issues that we're gonna talk through how to
feel better every single day The good news
is you could just be sitting on your
sofa or laying in your bed or, you
know, in your office or wherever you might
would be some very... Comfortable west suggest you
should be something it's very comfortable. Lay back,
kickback back, close your eyes and let's hike
together. Comfortable So right now, it's a little
bit of a a hot day. It's approaching
92
degrees out,
and we're gonna hike up to the living
room. Is a really cool hike here in
Salt lake City. And
so let's make sure you have the right
shoes on, let's make sure you get some
hiking poles and let's just start off, which
really, really slowly because it's gonna be about
a mile and a half uphill,
and then we're gonna come down together. So
I'll just take it. Let's take our time,
make sure you have plenty of water with
you here. And as we start to hike,
we just feel the connection with the earth.
I'll and we feel that our feet are
firmly planted on the earth. 1 foot is
just simply going in front of the other,
and we're starting to walk. Very slowly uphill.
And as we hike together,
let's just keep things
really positive,
to think about your life and about all
the things that you have actually good going
on. That you might have some bad, but
let's focus on the good things today because
we're gonna really make this a super positive
hike.
And we just passed 2 people coming down
and they gave us a really wonderful smile,
and we just smile bag at them. And
that just kind of increased our
a little bit, whenever you connect with another
human being especially on a hiking trail, but
just feels really good. So I'm gonna say
to you as we hike together.
Let's make sure to make eye contact
trail and say hello to people, it just
smile doesn't have to be a conversation. But
just say hello it's smile, and if if
we have to move out of the way
or if they move over for us. Let's
just make sure again, we smile and say
thank you very much when appropriate.
So let's continue upper hike. It's definitely hot
out here. It's warm,
All but all we have to do is
put 1 foot in front of the other
and just keep walking at pace that's good
for us.
We don't have to go too fast
and that also is true when we're thinking
about
helping ourselves through depression and anxiety.
We don't have to do everything at once.
So many people wanna jump into,
a protocol and a routine where they're doing
everything at once, and it usually doesn't work
because too much too fast
just doesn't work. So let's just take it
slow today. It's just gonna again,
doesn't matter if you're in good shape in
bad shape. You can put 1 foot in
front of the other. Right. Let's just do
that on a very,
very slow pace.
And we're gonna make this work out.
It's gonna happen.
Okay. Now be careful because these rocks the
were. Know, stepping over,
are
they they can be treacherous
because if you take the wrong step,
you you could slip.
And even though we're not high up, you
could slip and you could fall, you could
you can break an ankle, you can spring
something you could get cut very badly. So
let's make sure we look out for all
of these
rocks
and
just
be very careful as we step, on them
and over them.
And that's also
It's also a metaphor for our lives
because as we're
stepping over these rocks that could symbolize,
we're dealing with
things in life that could be a little
bit difficult if we're not careful.
But if we just take our time,
and step carefully.
It generally
works out.
And what happens if we go too quickly
and step on the wrong rock or slip
on the rock.
That's right.
We're gonna fall down.
And even if we fall,
we can get up,
and get better
and resume
or sometimes we take a step back because
stepping on a rock and falling could be
symbol
a bad relationship or
a bad business decision We all make mistakes
and we step on those rocks,
and we slip.
But slipping on a rock is is never
permanent.
Sure. We might have to rest for a
while. We might have to. Again, take a
step back, but it's not it's not permanent
that we can always.
Regroup
and continue on the journey
to feeling better
every single day
Oh, we just
moved over off the trail for some hike
that were coming down 2 2 women, coming
down the trail. We just moved over for
them.
And I'm surprised,
you know, usually people say thank you
when you move off the trail or get
out of their way and allow them to
come by.
But these 2 women were
caught up in their world,
not noticing anything else around them, and they
didn't even have the courtesy to say,
thank you for moving over and allowing us
to come through. Thank you.
So what does that tell us?
Well, first of all,
every person you encounter on the trail and
in life
is not going to necessarily resonate with you
Some people are just caught up in their
own stuff, their own world, and they don't
even have
a second.
Or even the common courtesy to
acknowledge or say, hello or say thank you.
But no matter what we try to do
and help positive we are and the energy
that we ex exclude along this trail today.
That doesn't mean everybody else is gonna fit
into our energy.
And it's really interesting as we start as
we continue this hike along the trail.
We can just look at somebody and notice,
if they have
positive energy
that is ex exerting from them and positive
energy is contagious
or we can tell if they have more
negative energy.
And unfortunately, unfortunately negative energy is contagious as
well,
So what we're going to do is we're
gonna try to stay away from
the people on this trail today that have
the negative energy.
It doesn't mean we're gonna bump into Denver,
push them over the side or anything like
that, but we're just gonna
say a hello and continue to move on.
Whereas sometimes on the trail, if you come
across somebody with real positive energy,
they throw you a compliment. It's very common
I get. Compliments because people say I love
your hat or they smiling. And it's okay
to stop and and chat for a few
minutes and and take a little break in
and
No, find out what other positive people are
doing
in their lives. There's nothing wrong with that.
Because the more
positivity.
You have
in your life and surrounding it. Even if
it's for a brief moment, somebody that you
meet,
in line somewhere,
somebody you meet on a trail,
and you love their smile,
tell them that.
I know these days we're always afraid to
say things because, you know, you have to
worry whether things are politically correct and if
you're gonna offend somebody, but I don't think
telling somebody that they have a beautiful smile
or you like their hat or something like
that,
or even like you're... You seem like you're
a really good hike.
You must hike a lot because you you
really know what you're doing. Those kind of
things
their positive
energy.
And the more positive faults we can
think about
and the more positive compliments we can give
out during the day.
It's really interesting, but I swear to you
the depression and anxiety, they do start to
melt away.
So remember,
Even after we leave this trail shortly.
When you encounter other people,
don't look the other way,
Even if it's just like a a head
nod or a smile,
it goes a long way.
And when you keep having this positivity
every day,
all day.
I promise you things start to change in
your life.
It won't happen overnight.
No. You won't be doing this hike with
me, and then tomorrow morning,
you're all of a sudden feeling better and
everything's perfect. No. That's not gonna happen.
But if you listen to this meditation,
once a week, even or few times a
week,
and you really take it seriously and you
incorporate a little
ideas and symbols that
we've talked about here on this hike into
your life.
You will start to feel better.
This 100 percent works.
100 percent.
Now we're getting close to the top and
we're sweating
It's difficult.
We've been drinking our water,
staying hydrated, staying safe,
being very careful with every step.
And we're almost at the top now. So
when we get to the top, we're gonna
take a little break.
We're gonna take some pictures of the beautiful
landscape and the beautiful view from the top.
And we're gonna think about
this beautiful day,
and looking down the great Salt Lake,
and Salt Lake City from this beautiful vantage
point
above.
We can just see things and start to
think
about the beauty
wherever we are.
So go ahead, let's take a few pictures
And let's take a few pictures of each
other, and we can keep these in our
albums and on our phone, and always think
about this hike that we're doing today.
And now we're gonna start down.
Downhill will lot people think is easier than
uphill.
The all life I have to do is
walk downhill and it's so easy.
That's not necessarily true.
Walking downhill, hiking downhill connect should be sometimes
more treacherous because it's I think it's much
easier to trip on the downhill.
So what does that mean to you to
Think about that for a second.
It appears easy.
It appears easier.
But it's actually much easier to stumble and
fall.
I want you to think about that 1
for
just a moment or so.
Think about what that means.
When it seems easy,
sometimes it's
more common
to stumble
and fall and
maybe even hurt yourself.
Think about it.
I mean, I'm sure you've heard the expression
when things seem like they're so good and
so easy then
there's
oftentimes danger nearby.
So always be careful always
be alert.
Be positive.
Would always be alert because I don't wanna
see you get into something that's
difficult for you just because it seem easy.
Be very careful.
I'm really enjoying hiking with you today. We
should really do this more often. And you're
you're pretty darn good at hiking. I can
tell.
You're confident now.
1 is downhill, you seem
a lot more relaxed now than you were
with me on the uphill.
Only the uphill you a little bit tentative,
not sure what to expect.
But now that we've gotten to the toughest
part, the top and then now we're heading
down, other than being careful that we don't
stumble.
You're doing really well.
I wanna congratulate you because I think
on some level just from
hiking with me today.
You're feeling a little bit better.
Do you feel it?
And again, I'm not saying after 1 hike
with me together. I'm not saying that you're
gonna be cured of everything. No. It doesn't
things don't work that way. Just think how
long it took for you to get.
I'm depressed or anxious or whatever whenever you're
go going through just feeling the blank. Think
Hell, it doesn't happen overnight.
It's something that just happens
little little by little,
over a long period of time
and then all of a sudden,
you realized that something's not right.
So as we finish this hike today.
You should feel
more positive for sure.
But it's not the end. It's not the
cure. It's not we're not finished. We have
a lot of work to do together.
And if you like this, let me know
what I can do more hikes with you
or more more activities are in a in
way of a meditation for sure. I I
would love to.
But as we finish this hike I want
you to drink water,
hydrate,
the water is like the
you know, our bodies are what, I don't
know what I can't remember 80 percent to
90 percent water or something like that 90
some percent water, I don't remember exactly. But,
it's life.
It's like all the water is not living
itself.
It's crucial for life, so I want you
to drink plenty of water today after this
hike.
And I want you to think about what
we did and what we talked about
and how your life is
going to get better right now.
If 1 step at a time.
Okay. Let me know how you like this
hike and how... If you want future meditations.
And even if you have ideas where we
can go out together and meditate
just like this.
I'll see you in the next episode. I'm
Doctor Dave.
This is Micah here.