How I Beat Depression & the Real Kriya Yoga

[@supersonic2511978]

„The wound is the place, where the light enters you“ - Rumi. This really seems to be a universal truth. Thanks for the great video!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! What a perfect quote! 🤩🤩🙏☃️🎄

[@supersonic2511978]

Forrest Knutson - Every Friday I am looking forward to your video... and to the quote you put at the end of it. Always so wise and witty, always makes me smile! 🙏🏻 btw., there is a beautiful book called „the way of zen“ by Alan Watts. And guess what, already in the introduction he stresses the importance of the periphal vision of the eyes... same great principles everywhere. :) merry xmas to you and your loved ones☃️ ☃️🙏🏻❤️

[@victorsaitta5692]

Dearest guruji! This reminds me of Pandora’s Box. The last thing to emerge from Pandora’s Box was Hope. Sit with all of the emotions and you will get to the love and hope. I’ve used the technic of OMing into the emotions or problems and it never cease to amazing me how fast the situation disappears.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Oh wow! That's so perfect; thank you Victor! 🙏

[@naarad0911]

Dear Shrī Knutson, seeing the energy on your face, I doubt if you ever have faced prolonged depression!? 😂😂 Jokes apart, I have been living alone for past 30 years and thanks to the Divine, none of the depressions has lasted a month. The easiest way to life is to be a minimalist, have minimal expectations from others and start loving your own self without being selfish. My praṇaama to you. 🙏🏽

[@robbentvelzen6807]

This does way more than just make sense. It is very recognisable. When I ran into the last question (why me? , I'll spare you its origins.) I found out that only a shift in paradigma could provide answer, so it really was the last question of my old life. Thus my spiritual development kicked off. I guess people are right when they say that the truly important things are done alone. Facing oneself does open doors (and eyes) By the way, I caught myself using your most powerful words: It is allright, it is aaallright. Grazie.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful Rob! What a fantastic testimony! 🤩🙏

[@333Eriana]

Wow - you did it again. i just looked at the date and realized that you published this today. i've been falling into a depression that seems to have no bottom this year, it got bad this week. - my birthday was on Dec 1. and i burst into tears talking to a sales rep on the phone. This is hard to listen to when one is depressed - but i kept moving it back and hearing your words repeated. it makes so much sense. i've cancelled plans with a friend today because i know i need to be with myself and figure this out. Thankyou so much for this. out to the pine trees i go.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wow Eri! I so understand. Try out the OM Japa and the Timeline Therapy Walkthrough on my channel when you get a chance! 🙏🙏

[@loueu]

This was the most profound, thank you so very much ❤

[@iggyreyes2652]

Ty so much for your stories .. they always make things easier to grasp and make it tangible in daily life 🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Perfect Iggy! Thank you so much!

[@manjunathgangadhargangadha4364]

Beautiful word "embrace' this the key to all suffering. Once one embrace, love is inevitable... But never stuck with love, it it good but not the ultimate... Just embrace the love then see you... 🙏

[@tumareyoga9041]

This is such important understanding that you are sharing with us, thank you. Immediately, I thought about a few people who suffer from a depression and need to see this video 🙏🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much! I hope it helps them, when you send it to them maybe emphasize the OM Japa in the chakras. 🙏

[@violinwithRosemary]

Gosh this was so helpful 🤎 Loving Fridays with Forrest 🤎 Thank you so much!!🙂

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you so much! 🤩🙏

[@freds4814]

WOW! What Grace to have come across this beautiful description of how to get out of story and dissolve difficult emotions! Yes! Mantra through with OM! There are so many Kriya techniques ..this feels so right!

[@innerbliss108]

Forrest this is so profoundly incredible. I think its one of the greatest videos of yours I've seen. Just amazing. Thanks for sharing your story and caring! You are the light for so many others. Edit: this video is an aum bomb, the mother of all aum bombs!

[@ForrestKnutson]

I'm so glad to hear that! It's such a profound understanding of negative emotions, that they need not destroy us and we do have the ability to overcome them. I'm so glad you loved it! AUM BOMB! LOL! 🤩🥰🤗🙏

[@gurudra]

The mind is a loyal servant but also the most dangerous master🙏🌺🌿

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly right! 🙏☃️🎄

[@withluvdee1046]

Wow. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I have tried breathing into tension/pain in your body repeating loving mantras and watched as the tension built, almost unbearable, then left but popped up in different areas in my body until at the end it disappeared. It took about 30 min the first time. I believe your technique could help so many people and I will try it myself. 🙏🏻

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful, Dee! Yes, give it a whirl with the OM Japa in each chakra, or the Timeline Therapy, and see how it goes for you. I have Walkthroughs on Timeline Therapy on my channel.

[@withluvdee1046]

@@ForrestKnutson Thank you Forest. I will try them and have seen your timeline videos. They are great. Question - would you Om in the area of the tension only or move from the root up? Thanks again for always providing great information. 🙏🏻

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@withluvdee1046 Both in the area, and from the root, as some emotions are held in several chakras at once. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@withluvdee1046]

@@ForrestKnutson thank you so much for your response. You’re wonderful. 🙏🏻

[@subhaarthanari9323]

Beautifully spoken, thanks so much Guruji, I definitely need this right now, thanks again Namaste

[@cathlicyogi]

Your wonderful story brought back a memory and with it, an understanding. When my daughter was very young, she was prone to tantrums. Absolutely beautiful tantrums with tears and various physical outbursts. When she would do this at home, I would sit with her and just watch. I would sometimes hug her, or lend a few words of understanding, if she would let me, but mostly I would just be present for her. I did not know why I did this, I just felt to just watch and be a peaceful presence for her. Oddly, a time or two I took a photo of her in this state. In time, her energy would run its course, and a happy peace would reveal itself once again from this beautiful soul. Now, as I go within, I do the same with my emotional energy. I give it an Om and watch. These teachings have such a mysterious loveliness to them. I cannot comprehend their depth with thought, yet, it seems, that awareness, stillness, heals. Blessings brother and thank you.

[@ForrestKnutson]

What a gorgeous story! Thank you so much for sharing this and it's confirmation, brother! What a gift to your daughter! 🤩🤩🙏🙏

[@cathlicyogi]

Yes. My daughter has become a person that I deeply admire.

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@cathlicyogi that's incredibly beautiful. 🥰

[@vimaladominic]

Love your experience explanation with full of emotion sir..it really touches the heart..OMG

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Vimala! I'm so glad to hear that!

[@supreethkurthukoti9851]

Thank you so much for this. I suffer from MDD and am currently going through an episode. This was very helpful for me.

[@ForrestKnutson]

I'm so glad to hear that! Know that you are not alone! 🤗🙏

[@margaretstewart4125]

Another great video. Thank you so much. I love your clear, direct and practical teachings. I just got your App and it has made a huge difference to my practice. The only thing is that when I meditate now I see your smiling face and I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. It does make me smile though. I feel very fortunate to come across your channel you take the WuWu out of spirituality and make it real.

[@hrushikeshjoshi4751]

Your advice is exactly what i desperately needed . Thank you so much

[@fhoniemcphonsen8987]

Thanks for sharing your personal stories and all of the tips and tricks. 😁

[@pavneetkaur4545]

Absolutely wonderful! have you been reading my mind? It seems you have clarified what I was encountering yesterday. I literally stayed with my emotion and it dissipated. However, I have not gone deep enough as it dissipated quickly before my reaching at the bottom of it. Perhaps, that's the reason I couldn't see the light coming up. I just felt lighter and ok after that emotion passed away. As you say, the stories we tell ourselves never bring any respite. Thanks you for clarifying it beautifully. Ever so grateful! 💖💖🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

So wonderful and well done! It isn't necessary that you see or feel the same light that I saw, but you found that the emotion dissipated, which is perfect. You can test to see if you can still find the negative emotion, and if you can't find it, then it's gone. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@pavneetkaur4545]

@@ForrestKnutson Wonderful! Thank you! A question arises here. I addressed the emotion when it came up by being with it and feeling it completely. However, the same emotion will come up again after some days or months and it can be the same emotion. As you said that we don't address the emotion properly as it comes up again. The question is how to go deeply into it step by step so that you reach the bottom of it? 🙏🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@pavneetkaur4545 in that case, we're not getting to the deepest root, and TLT can be really helpful in this regard. It asks for the very first instance, so using the timeline, we are getting before the very beginning of the gestalt. That's what makes the difference. Great question! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@pavneetkaur4545]

@@ForrestKnutson Amazing! Many thanks for addressing this.🙏🙏💖💖

[@bc927]

Yes! I loved it!!

[@williamcranstoun9566]

This is incredible!!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you William! 🤩🙏🤩

[@dasi_is_dasi]

oh my god this video is absolutely fantastic

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Amber! 🤩🙏

[@charlesrae3793]

I am getting therapy for my anxiety, and my counsellor keeps saying that I need to expose myself to stressful situations full-on, but altho' I can do so to an extent, I am still resisting the full-on aspect. What you say resonates with what he is saying, in a therapeutic and non-spiritual manner.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful Charles! 🌹 🤗🙏

[@saiswarupmishra5707]

So Beautiful of you sir....thank you for sharing this teaching ...🌹🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Sai! 🌹🔥🙏

[@Sassieone1]

Thank you so much for your brightful Insights 💜

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you! 🤩

[@CarolBlaneyPhD]

wow awesome lesson thank you!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Thank you Carol!

[@HMALDANA]

Fridays with Forrest, eh? :P And yeah, the black dog is no joke. I've been dealing with depression for over thirty years now, but it has become more manageable by means of body work. Dr. van der Kolk, the author of The Body Keeps the Score, states you cannot overcome trauma if you don't help your nervous system get back to normal. Not surprisingly, he's a big advocate of Heart Rate Variability Resonance Breathing. The practices you share are part of my self-care routine. Om Yapa has been particularly useful. I thank you for that. Blessings and blissings to you and your loved ones!

[@ForrestKnutson]

So perfect! I once watched a Russian practicing Systema beat out some chronic stuckness out of one of his students. I had watched the student intermittently for the week-long training, and the gentleman was wound up to the breaking point. The teacher struck him in a nerve plexus over and over again until he was literally on the ground, and when he got up you could see the clearing of his face and mind. It was one of the most incredible demonstrations I've ever seen. So yes, I absolutely agree, and I'm so happy to hear that my tools are helping you as well brother. 🤩🙏☃️🎄

[@sureshshankarakrishnan9713]

Thank you Forrest ji !!!!!

[@arobersonable]

SO TRUE. I run to "Om" all throughout the day- it's magic. Don't know how it works exactly- don't have time-don't care- it works!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yeah! So wonderful Amy! No wonder you've done so well with this meditative system!

[@vimaladominic]

Atma namaste sir heartfelt gratitude God bless much love from India 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

[@vimaladominic]

Very true sir ..i see many many of them cry so much when i do psychotherapy healing..in 20 minutes they feel so fresh lite and filled with peace and happiness after the cleansing meditation..its a wonderful amazing experience. Love you sooo much sir 🙏🙏🙏🙏❤

[@ForrestKnutson]

Beautiful Vimala! Atma namaste! Blessings and blissings to you and your loved ones! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🌞

[@vimaladominic]

@@ForrestKnutson Thank you so much for your kind reply sir..love to my little angel and ma'am..blessings for her healing as well 🙏🙏🙏❤

[@OctoBox]

Friday's with Forestji!!!

[@ForrestKnutson]

😂😂🤩🔥🔥🔥🙏 We should meet up and do an interview when you have some time!

[@congamike1]

Oh wow! Thanks. I will use this to help my wife.

[@ForrestKnutson]

Wonderful Mike!

[@raamkumar1979]

Great brother….🙏🙏🙏

[@Scott-Ramseva]

I’ve been practicing sitting with emotions for years and years (mostly via Thich Naht Hanh’s and other Buddhist teachers). But when I practice om-ing into them it feels like I’m fighting them/trying to push them away. Even when I’m trying to make an effort to sit with them while om-ing it still seems to fight with it. It does dissolve but I feel unsure of if it is actually working itself out or just being bypassed.

[@ForrestKnutson]

What resolves the negative emotion in timeline therapy is the learning. So we do the work and we go before the very first instance and that is where we get the learning. And the learning preserves the transformation. I wouldn't hold it as if you are fighting the emotion. Do it with the assurance that a nuclear bomb causes annihilation. Drop the ohm and then see what happens. The way that it works in this case is we wipe out the emotion and that's when we get clarity. That's when the learning can suddenly appear to us concerning that particular emotion. We may get the learning consciously or subconsciously, and when that takes place that's what again causes the transformation and the lasting change.

[@andrevandenheever6740]

Soooo, kriya can help us with the everyday lows too! Great! 😄

[@ForrestKnutson]

Exactly, Andre! :D

[@LVXBum]

OM all day!!! 🔥

[@ForrestKnutson]

Yes! 🔥🤩🔥

[@innerbliss108]

Forrest if you'd like, I encourage you to write a short book or whatever you'd like, about this sort of subject. Blissings guruji!

[@anandkesar2462]

no one is perfect even our ideals

[@ForrestKnutson]

That's right, Anand!

[@julie7002]

Dear Forrest I like your channel and delightful personality along with your fluidity of mind. The question that comes to my mind is if one is at work and something triggers a negative emotion in a busy public place how does one do Oming into that negative emotion right then a there in an inner secret private way. Hope this makes sense

[@ForrestKnutson]

Absolutely Julie, great question! Once you are used to finding the chakras with your mind easily, then you just mentally ask yourself where is this coming from? For example jealousy would come from the second chakra, anger and fear and sadness originated from the third chakra, heartache from the heart, and wanting to swallow our words or wanting to yell at somebody comes from the throat. After doing this a few times it becomes routine and it's very quick and easy. You might need to hide away at first in order to do this but eventually you can do it in the moment. Place your mind on the chakra and mentally imagine the sound of OM is vibrating and dropping into that chakra. Then place another and another OM until the emotion dissipates. You can also try practicing the Rescue Breathing. That video is on my channel. Try it by itself or with this OM practice.

[@julie7002]

@@ForrestKnutson thanks for responding. This is all very helpful.

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@julie7002 wonderful!

[@carpenterfamily6198]

Tell us a story Forrest ! ❤️

[@epicether373]

How many times a day should I do the hrv technique? and what time of day is best? One last question, should I swallow the saliva as is building up or wait to the end? It's hard to keep doing the exercise while my mouth is getting watery lol just wondering

[@lrodriguez5545]

OMG I did that procedure (but was kind of instinctively) the last time I was having a very confusing time. Even I wrote a poem. It's in Spanish of course, but exactly I started my introduction to it with that statement of the Gordian Knot😅 Yo se que los peores días, son esos en los que no puedes producir ni un solo sentimiento de amor hacia ti mismo. Pobrecito el murciélago Y la única forma de sentir, se logra, con un dolor auto-infligido, físico o mental. Hoy no fue intencional mirar la forma descarnada en los procederes de algunas almas sin alma, y dirigirme a misma ese mirar. Como no fue intencional el curry :curry: enchilado que castigó al Nudo Gordiano que contenía el dique de la garganta. Hasta arrancarle el mar Después… Aunque no muy tarde me acordé del circuito de recompensa y las locuras que hice por exceso de amor. A los helados y azucarados Y conecto las sustancias placenteras en mi desequilibrio momentáneo. Sonrío y se me pasa. ¡De ser… los alimentos y lo que alimenta el alma! Dicen que… Esa noche hubo rayos, tormentas y miel en Oriente. Baidyabati, Octubre 19, 2021 por Lisbeth Kumar

[@an_anishinaabe_son]

Forrest, "how" does one just "sit with it"?

[@BlaCK_HaT.]

For a long time I am feeling a strong sensation on my Agya chakra/Third eye . I don't know what to do next plz help 🙏🏼

[@ForrestKnutson]

Please search my channel for Lahiri Mahasaya and the 3 Knots. You're experiencing the first knot.

[@ail2470]

I'm not sure what would it be like (what practical way) digging into bottom of depressed feeling in a practical sense. Would it not make us depressed more if keep digging into the feeling of depression? I'd love to know how to do this in practical way.

[@nataliebutler]

For the technique to work it's important to witness the feelings I.e. to be able to feel them fully but simultaneously have a certain distance created by observing them neutrally. Otherwise the feelings can be reinforced which may make the situation worse. Done correctly though, the feelings will dissolve.

[@ail2470]

@@nataliebutler Right. I'm keep forgetting that there are no built in meaning to anything that are happening in our lives. Thanks for the reminder.

[@krishnadixit247]

Dear Forrest, can you help me with, from whom of the lineage of Shri Panchanan Bhattacharyaji can I get Kriya Yog Diksha from, in India?

[@ForrestKnutson]

Do a search for Maheshwari Dubeyji and Kriya Yoga. Then follow your heart. 🙏

[@krishnadixit247]

@@ForrestKnutson Thanks a ton 🙏

[@sulmez1]

I like you as a person. I find your experiences deep and unique. Your title got me in. But i hope you represent your main idea again without exgusting with many introductions and stories. I tried very hard but I felt lost with your stories. Where is the solution to the depression!!!????

[@Vanderful_life]

Sulmez please consider watching video again Let go of story, every negative emotion will turn into love if you will sit with it

[@_Ram.352]

Om sri gurubhyo namah

[@ForrestKnutson]

🤩🙏⭐🔥

[@intotheoverlap]

Leaning into the pain is something I've been playing with, but mostly with physical pain and I've felt some relief from chronic issues like muscle tightness. Have you had any experience using om japa or the other techniques for physical discomfort?

[@ForrestKnutson]

I made a video a little while back on breath work for pain relief. Also, you might like to watch the video on the magnesium foot soak. It makes a huge difference.

[@intotheoverlap]

@@ForrestKnutson I'll go back and check them out, thank you!

[@ForrestKnutson]

@@intotheoverlap perfect! 🌞🙏

[@derrickdavis9895]

It's hard to imagine you being mad

[@aloksahu7208]

Om 🙏

[@ForrestKnutson]

🙏⭐🔥🤩

[@jannareindel6263]

💜💙💜

[@dakotahsimonson631]

Its ok to om all day?

[@ForrestKnutson]

Absolutely 🤩

[@dakotahsimonson631]

I om really long with every breath 🕉💖💖💖

[@googleshitsyt5557]

Do you have 5min for a conversation?

[@katharina6865]

Letting SATURN-Energy do its work....