How Meditation Can Help Overcome Your Black-And-White Thinking

This can be done anywhere and anytime. It is a way we can take a couple of minutes to relax and gain a little perspective:

Sit or lie down comfortably. Let your thoughts come and go for a minute. You will sense the different feelings that your thoughts engender. Now, turn your racing thoughts into a calm and still lake. Watch the lake and visualize it as quiet and placid as a mirror. You know that in the deep waters your emotions are stored. But, for the moment, you feel the calmness of the surface. If your mind starts to race, simply witness it as a third party without judgment. Notice how your feelings become calm and your stomach relaxes. As fear rises from the surface then let it float away on the surface of the lake until it becomes calm once more. Feel the beauty of the lake's surface. Feel the stillness in your soul.

This meditation need only be a few minutes long. It is a little sanctuary that's available to us any time we want. It is not meant to be an in-depth meditation but a tool to develop that will give us a bolt hole in the middle of the day, when we are sitting on the tube or on the loo when we have taken a break from a stressful meeting. It's one of those things that gets better the more we practice.

There are many fantastic books and tapes available to us for all types of meditation. There are complete programs devoted to teaching us how to integrate meditation into our lives and using it as a tool for combating stress. Whether we invest in one of these or use a simple technique like the one above, we will benefit by these techniques. Find a technique that works for you, and it will quiet your racing mind and help to stop your black-and-white thinking.

Whatever our preference, we must put in place a change in our thinking in order that we take on new thoughts. 'Racing thoughts' is an epidemic for those of us who are depressed. Our thinking numbs our spirit and it is important that we try new techniques to help combat our racing minds to help forge a space for healing. For those of us who have suffered from depression for a long time, we will probably always be susceptible to depression, and employing meditation will help us to change our habits to keep depression at bay. At its best, meditation can help us reach a state of joy that we never knew was possible.



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