Meditation and Mental Health

Blogging away lightly about meditation might make it seem an ordinary everyday thing but really it is the ordinary everyday thing which makes each day extraordinary and more importantly it evens out our mental conditions.

Image of Christ from Monastery Church an icon of faith

Everybody knows that holidays are good, they stop the machinery of our lives and give us a chance to change the programming, to stop the mechanical charging about achieving this and that.  They recharge our batteries.  In the longer term, we need more of this stopping to keep us healthy, we need to clear out the accrued mental and emotional rubbish regularly and meditation is just the discipline for this.  Everything else is short term but meditation is the real deal, it provides us with space.  It is like cleaning and sorting out a room on a daily basis, allowing the day to start freshly.  It puts us in touch with our deepest possibilities, our object of faith if we want that.  It allows the angels or the gods or whatever powers are believed to come in and help us as individuals.  It helps us to move forward cleanly and it allows us to put our doubts and concerns down which is the greatest possible help to our mental state.
Take it one step further too, if our mental state is clear, that will surely help others we meet, for we are much more likely to be able to hear them and respond to their needs cleanly.