Not sadness. Absence.
Depression is not feeling too much. It is feeling nothing where feeling should be. MTP™ works at the level where the disconnection began.
The hardest part of depression is not the pain — it is the flatness. The absence of the very energy needed to seek help. You are not lazy. You are not weak. You are running a system where the signal for aliveness has been suppressed — often for a very long time.
Depression is not a character flaw or a chemical imbalance to be corrected from outside. It is a learned pattern of disconnection from the ground state — the happiness that is the actual baseline of human experience, obscured by conditioning, not constitutionally absent.
Absence of pleasure in things that once mattered
Exhaustion that sleep does not fix
A sense of watching life from behind glass
Difficulty making decisions, concentrating, starting anything
A persistent inner critic that cannot be silenced
Functioning on the surface while hollowed underneath
The MTP™ approach to depression begins with one premise: happiness is not something to be achieved. It is the ground state. Depression is not the absence of happiness — it is the presence of conditioning that covers it.
Meditation restores contact with the ground state directly. Trance works on the subconscious patterns — the self-critical loops, the learned helplessness, the emotional suppression — that maintain the depression below cognitive awareness. Psychotherapy addresses the original experiences and relational patterns that initiated the disconnection.
Peer-reviewed evidence supporting MTP-aligned interventions for Depression.
"Cognitive hypnotherapy was superior to CBT alone in reducing depressive symptoms, anxiety, and hopelessness at 16 weeks and at 6- and 12-month follow-ups in a randomised controlled trial."
Alladin & Alibhai, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2007"Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduced relapse rates by 43% in patients with three or more previous depressive episodes compared to treatment as usual."
Teasdale et al., Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology"A systematic review of hypnotherapy for major depressive disorder found evidence supporting its recommendation as an effective treatment modality."
medrxiv systematic review, 2024MTP™ is a complementary intervention. It does not replace medical assessment or treatment. Dr. Maruti Sharma works collaboratively with medical professionals where appropriate.
Good fit
Depression that persists despite medication or previous therapy
Recurrent depressive episodes — the pattern keeps returning
Depression with a clear experiential origin — loss, trauma, relational
Functional depression — appearing fine on the outside, empty inside
Genuine desire to understand and dissolve the pattern, not just manage symptoms
Not the right fit
Active suicidal ideation requiring immediate psychiatric intervention
Severe depressive episode with complete inability to function
Bipolar depression — requires careful adaptation and medical coordination
Can MTP™ replace antidepressants? +
MTP™ is not positioned as a replacement for medication. Many clients work alongside their prescriber while doing MTP™ work. Over time, some find medication reduction becomes possible — but this is a medical decision, not a therapeutic one.
What if I have had depression for many years? +
Duration of depression does not determine outcome. What matters is the nature of the conditioning that maintains it and the client's genuine engagement with the work. Decades-long patterns have resolved in months. There are no guarantees — but the duration alone is not the limiting factor.
How is this different from regular psychotherapy for depression? +
Standard psychotherapy works at the cognitive and relational level. MTP™ adds the trance component — which accesses the subconscious patterns that maintain depression below the level of insight. Knowing why you are depressed is different from dissolving the conditioning that produces it.
Happiness is not something to find. It is something to return to.
Every engagement begins with a conversation. No commitment. No pressure. Just an honest exchange to understand whether this is right for you.
Dr. Maruti Sharma · RCI Reg. A100310 · Clinical Psychologist · 25+ years · 100+ countries