Does Meditation Improve Mental Health | Top 3 Steps

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Does it feel as though your mental health is suffering as of late? Has the relentless, accumulative coronavirus outbreak taken a toll on your overall mood and brain clarity? Do you think it is at all possible that quarantine has severely impacted various attributes of your mental health? Are you looking for a way to improve your mental health? Are you silently wondering, “I see your title so how exactly does meditation improve mental health?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you can definitely find some value, peace, and clarity from this article. You can find solace from your struggle as you better navigate the current known as your mental health. This post’s intent is to explain the process behind how does meditation improve mental health as you stream closer to the top 3 steps to recovery.

Getting Raw Like an Onion

The moment you begin to meditate, positive changes will begin to unfold all around you. Soon, you will see that the things that used to plague your mind late at night no longer have residence over you, or at least not as much as they used to up until now. Okay, let us back up a tad bit, shall we? You may not notice an immediate difference right off the cusp effective immediately, but with practice, time, and patience, you will live a new and improved life.

But how?

How can I fix my life if it is already so broken, dismantled, and lopsided?

How can I restore what was once mine?

Don’t worry. As a matter of fact, take a load off.

Sit down, let your shoulders down, uplift your chin, and take a few deep breaths.

Breathe in.

One. Two. Three.

Breathe out.

One. Two. Three.

Continue this process until you feel everything boiling inside of your soul and then begin the process of letting it all go. Nothing that you are experiencing at this moment will last forever. This too shall pass.

Be Healed

Yes. You are valid. Your emotions matter as does your experiences, quality of life, and mental life.

But you are not broken.

You are complete, divine, and whole.

You are not trying to fix yourself. Rather, you are trying to remember who you are.

You are on a journey of transcending your False Self.

It is not a matter of embracing the mountain in the valley times; it is a matter of getting raw with yourself to understand that you have and always will be the mountain unconditionally. This is your True Self!

Meanwhile, in the process, keep in mind (body & spirit!) that the only way out is through.

Be Real

You can lie to everyone until you are blue in the face, but at the very least it is in your best interest to be as honest as can be within your own company. Avenge yourself by feeling yourself. Avenge yourself by being yourself — all of it!

No matter what stage you are in of life, the last thing you need to do is gaslight, minimize, and deflect your emotions. You must embrace how you are feeling and allow yourself to be deeply, completely, unapologetically vulnerable.

Even if you have to use your own personal brand on onions, let yourself cry it all out if you must.

Whatever it takes to healthily release the emotions that have been stunting and harming your mental health.

Try not to be afraid of your emotions — I’d argue that they are even more afraid of you.

So how does this tie into meditation?

Providing yourself with an open, safe, and above all nonjudgmental space.

Unlike a great majority of the world, you deserve all those aforementioned virtues to enhance your mental health and restore the damage afflicting our heart.

Try not to judge the thoughts and emotions that arise to the surface; just let them flow through you and just be.

You are stronger, greater, and better not in spite of this but because of this. So, for the lack of better words…

Feel it to heal it!

Undo to Redo Mental Health

Yes, ogres have layers. Speaking of onions, why do you think you have to unpeel an onion to eat an onion? Because if you are going to take something back at least you are going to know how less is more.

That’s right. Meditation is a spiritually enriching experience that doesn’t add on to more of the same nor does it perpetuate the vicious cycle any further. Instead, meditation is the non-material essence of a new beginning in full throttle.

While it typically goes against conventional wisdom to not look at a glass-half-full favorably,

You cannot expect to get full of something beneficial if your cup is full of all that is detrimental, counterproductive, and harmful. You have to improvise and reverse the side effects and meditate on how you can empty your cup, so to speak, to succeed at this task.

For example, if you don’t understand why onions behave the way they do, you cannot keep on piling up on the enigma factor, on the encrypted data of tears. You have to decrypt the layers by unpeeling them and getting to the root of their peculiar suffering and by extension your own.

Long story short, if you want an epic do-over, you need an epic to undo to redo scenario to materialize.

How do I do that?

Don’t worry about it.

What? Now you are telling me not to worry? 

Know Thyself

Well, that is fine. Do the best that you can. What I mean is that worrying only perpetuates the cycle of afflicted, deteriorated mental health. One of the best things you can do, first and foremost, is to attain the awareness of “Why do I feel this way? Why do I feel so worried about something I’ve never tried?”

Awareness is key. Awareness helps you to peel back the layers and free yourself of weight.

You are doing great. You are greatly improved.

Meditation helps you to raise your vibration, elevate the collective consciousness, and ascend to your Higher Self while in physical incarnation — it is a euphoric and orgasmic experience. If you want to improve your mental health and feel the benefits immensely, this is one of the best, most effective methods to get there.

Just imagine sitting on top of a throne at the end of a lighthouse by the shore as you stand in awe of how far you’ve come.

All you need to do is take time to let go of what’s been weighing you down and gradually fly to the spirits of improved mental health.

Your serotonin levels will burst through the roof.

Onions have not layers; onions have wings (pun intended).

Be an Ogre For Mental Health

Yes, you’ve guessed it. Even ogres like Shrek have emotions and need to set aside the time necessary to meditate and boost mental health. Breaking down to breakthrough is the cycle of life and is essential for any being to welcome in the new.

No, this is not the same thing as lashing out and being reckless. Even though society goes above and beyond to stigmatize negative emotions (and mental health for that matter; the underlying point of this article), it is perfectly okay to have a piece of your mind and eat it too, especially if that’s what it takes to liberate.

Okedoke!

If you have to scream, shout, and/or pout to release the anchor weighing day in and day out on your brain, be my guest. There is certainly a time and a place for that as well. But the struggle isn’t the act; it is stopping the inaction.

No pressure. All progress.

It is never too late to meditate on all that is going to help improve your mental health. Today is the day to begin to make amends deep within.

You have a right to your emotions, thoughts, and experiences. You have full, unlimited access to your greatest version.

All it takes is one step in the right direction. You’ll be amazed by how little can do much.

To accentuate is to eliminate.

Allow yourself to get muddy, messy, and mad. Feel the rage boiling over. Let the emotions pass through you like a tsunami. Scream until your voice peaks.

And then release. Release the years and years of institutionalized pain, trauma, and suffering. Release the need for attachment and all that is decreasing the solidarity of your mental health.

Increase the release.

And if it makes you feel any better, let the world know that you matter and that your voice deserves equal recognition & treatment. Meditate on letting go of what no longer positively serves you to be of positive service.

So like I said earlier if you have to roar like Shrek for not being like the ogre you used to be, then go ahead. I am not going to stop you. And frankly, no one, unless of course, you account for yourself as being the most reticent of them all.

You’re happily ever is a breath away. Roar when it comes to stay.

Do the roar.

If nothing at all, ogres are brutally honest. You are more than deserving to embrace your “inner ogre” to conquer the challenges present within and around. You do this through awareness, self-compassion, and a fiery pit of authenticity.

If an ogre can do it, so can you.

Meditation Forever After

Does meditation improve mental health?

YES.

If you ever had any doubts about this, you are now in the clear.

Doubt-free.

Another one bites the dust.

In conclusion, the end is just the beginning. This is always the case.

No matter what is happening in your life or how out of control you think it’s gotten, taking care of your mental health is arguably the most important thing you must do.

Again, it’s easier said than done, but it can be done.

So to recap, remember to be like an onion, peel back those layers, and embrace your inner ogre.

My sincerest heart desire is that something in this article resonated with you inspired you, and encouraged you to consider meditation as a complement to your mental health.

You are human, strong, incredibly capable, and unconditionally resilient.

Meditate on those words with your eyes closed.

Let me know if you have any thoughts, comments, questions, insights, or concerns and I’ll be more than happy to be of service to you.

Elijah@mymiraclemeditations.com

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