By constantly watching the mind we start taking a distance from it, we don t identify with it anymore. Mind becomes like our hand, when we need it we use it, when not, the mind is resting. While watching the mind we start building a direct connection with our perception, as we have glimpses of direct experience. Discussion Mind creates distortion between perception and experience. The more we are identified with some rigid ideas, the thicker is the mind and the bigger is distortion.
Mental health depends on the thickness of the mind.
Unless someone can watch mind he cannot go insane because watching is the function of the consciousness. The person that has lost his capacity to watch the mind, has lost his mental health. All kinds of nationalism and religious fundamentalism are creating such mental distortion that the contact with consciousness is gone. Watching the mind is a safe method to dive into the individual and collective unconscious and clean it of all social and religious rigid mental structures that does not allow us to enter into contact with the consciousness. By watching the mind we become aware of the space that mind is lying into it.