“Maybe you can help me understand the process here.
I’ve recently started meditating twice daily 5 min practice and am finding it helps so much with removing the motivation to do behaviours that I know are bad for me.
I just don’t feel like it anymore, and so in that way meditation has become super healthy for my mental health.
But how?
Why does this work?”
When you are stressed your mind shifts to short-term instant gratification.
This explains behaviours such as unhealthy eating, doom scrolling, being inactive and a general lack of motivation.
Meditation gives your mind the time and space it needs to process and resolve the challenges you are facing in life which removes the stress.
When there is no stress you go back to being active, healthy and motivated.
The roots of why this happens to us is in evolution.
This stress related behaviour helped our distant ancestors survive difficult times by shifting their focus to the here and now, eating high energy foods and conserving energy.
In our modern world this legacy survival behaviour creates problems which increases our stress which re-enforces these survival behaviours and we find ourselves in an endless loop.
Meditation resolves stress and gets you out of that behaviour loop.
Edwin Leo 