Why Meditation Is Important

Meditation is a good mental health check-up
to detect any problems/attitudes.

Meditation allows consciousness to observe the mind, letting it to come to rest. We, consciousness, must look after our mind as well as our body. When consciousness is realised, it is experienced as the source of life, before we intellectualise and start to look elsewhere.

We will never know what drives our psychological make-up unless we can still our mind, and watch how it drifts into memories, and makes up stories. Meditation is inner peace, free from all the daily mental chatter.

How does meditation help in daily life?

We become familiar with not reacting, being carried away by our mind’s memories. It is through meditation that we grow up, evolve and transcend our routine behaviour. We stop being caught up in our and others’ confusion, which brings an end to suffering.

Do we have to meditate for many hours a day? This depends on whom we talk to. Once we get the essence of meditation, which is clarity, then there is no reason not to be clear all the time.

Personally, I find that the best time to meditate
is when listening to others,
not being captured by their stories and our reactions.
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This is neither accepting nor rejecting.

When listening to others, we see how they’re caught up in their own thoughts – it’s a reminder to see whether we’re doing the same thing.

If no one listens to us, we can become despondent and depressed. The world is full of chatter, and there is pressure on us to do the same, but we can feel inadequate.

We just have to be clear about what’s going on in our mind, and why.

Depression: a mental condition characterised by feelings of severe despondency, dejection, inadequacy and guilt, often accompanied by lack of energy, and disturbance of appetite and sleep.