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Most of us entertain almost the same thoughts most of the time. Before we fall asleep we think of the same problems, worries, ideas, plans, etc. as when we wake up. Meditation allows you to break this vicious cycle.
During a usual practice, you try to focus on one thing, like your breath, emotions, sensations, mantra, etc. As distractions – i.e., thoughts other than your one thing like worries, plans, ideas, etc. – enter your mind, you accept them without judgment and immediately try to return to your point of focus.
After a while, the number of distractions lessens, and your mind becomes clearer.
When performed correctly, after the meditation, your mind is like a blank slate.Â
What happens is through meditation you break the chain of thoughts that may have haunted you for days and leave you with an uncluttered mind.
Here are a couple of benefits of meditation.
Firstly, you reduce the negativity in your life because the repeating and often negative thoughts and emotions subside.
Secondly, and more importantly, you acquire more mental space to fill with brand new thoughts! This in turn increases your creativity because you create an environment for serendipity.
Thirdly, related to the second point, due to a clearer mind, you gain room for reflection, which helps you increase self-awareness.
In sum, meditation is like a mind vacuum cleaner. It will leave you less stressed and with a clearer mind to fill with new and more productive thoughts. When performed consistently, meditation may lead you to a longer life (due to less stress), more creativity (due to more room for new ideas to appear and mix with each other), and a more integrated personality (due to greater introspection). In the long term, it will change you dramatically, both emotionally and rationally.
Relevant notes:
P: NSD: No Synthetic Dopamine: NSD is another method to declutter your brain. More, you can use meditation to help you adapt to a less dopamine rich lifestyle.
You'll get overwhelmed by too much stimuli and crack into depression (PN: Meditation cleans up your brain)
Yet, most of us are victims of the trap of thinking. We do it constantly, consciously or not, mostly repeating dull, unhealthy, and unproductive patterns of thoughts which lead to an unhappy and paradoxically unconscious life (Meditation can help you clean your brain from such thoughts).
Second, train your focus muscle during daily tasks through productive meditation. Make sure you're avoiding shallow activities and multi-tasking. Whenever you do something, do it with purpose and full attention. This rule also refers to breaks. Choose activities where you can truly relax your brain and enable it to connect the dots in the background. [3]