Meditation as Non-Religious Discipline

Meditation can be a non-religious discipline that only does one thing: shut your brain up. It is medically therapeutic to do so. In high school, I was trying to integrate meditation into my daily routine but my family found this controversial, strange. I was also studying energy work and magick. But hey, these habits were even worse. Meditation is supposed to shut your brain chatter off, since it teaches you how to clear your mind. Meditation is a spiritual discipline, sure but it also has to do with becoming a physical body discipline rooted in that physicality. Meditation is one way to calm yourself down in addition to settling your brain’s anxiety. Breathing helps soothe anxiety while being still helps mania.