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title: "Intermittent Antidepressive Meditation: Do drugs or THIS for 80 seconds daily… - Limitless Mindset"
description: One mindfulness lifehack that anybody can do anytime is intermittent antidepressant meditation and it is effective at improving your mood.
author: Jonathan Roseland
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# Intermittent Antidepressive Meditation: Do drugs or THIS for 80 seconds daily…

Ⓒ By **Jonathan Roseland**

Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur, and Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest - spanning three continents - to find real-life "NZT-48."

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## *Winter is coming…*

In the cold season, which a lot of people find depressing, you’ll notice your motivation and mood are lagging, you’ll sleep more, and maybe gain some weight. This has a very apt name — **seasonal affective disorder**.

There are a lot of Biohacks for beating **S.A.D.,** but one mindfulness lifehack that anybody can do anytime is intermittent antidepressant meditation, and it is effective at improving your mood. It also goes by the name loving-kindness meditation, which I think is a really bad name! It makes it sound like a girly, wimpy thing, and it’s not! It’s quite an effective tool for managing your thoughts and emotions.

## **Loving Kindness Meditation**

This is something I learned about in [*Tools of Titans* by Tim Ferriss](http://amzn.to/2n75URb)...

> to increase your happiness, all you have to do is randomly wish for somebody else to be happy. (p. 158)
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> I tend to do a single 3- to 5-minute session at night, thinking of three people I want to be happy, often two current friends and one old friend I havent seen in years. (p. 159)

One woman reported

> Happiest day in 7 years. And what did it take to achieve that? It took 10 seconds of secretly wishing for two other people to be happy for 8 repetitions, a total of 80 seconds of thinking. (p. 158)

This is an intermittent meditation method; you do it for just seconds every hour, and it has a real antidepressant effect. You can spend a few minutes in the evening doing it, but I find it’s most effective if I aim to spend 10 seconds every hour, which may sound difficult to remember to do. **My reminder is just to do it every time I go to the bathroom,** which is about once an hour, because I drink a lot of water and tea — there’s a lifehack!

![bathroom hack](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/images/stories/blog/bathroom_tantric_sex-750.png?time=1)

If I do this consistently, I find it interesting that its effect is akin to the enigmatic antidepressant Nootropic [Tianeptine](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/nootropic-ingredients/318-tianeptine).

A [2017 European study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28842274) got together a group of long-term meditation practitioners, and it concluded:

> These preliminary cross-sectional findings motivate future longitudinal work studying brain plasticity following the regular practice of skills aiming at enhancing human altruism and prosocial motivation.

Loving-kindness meditation is NOT a metaphysical thing — it’s just a way of firing up your mirror neurons.

Please give that a try!

## **Finally**...

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