By constantly watching the mind we start taking a distance from it, we don t identify with it anymore. Mind becomes like our hand, we use it when we need it and when not, it is resting. Whilst watching the mind we start building a direct connection to our perception, as we have glimpses of direct experience. Mind creates distortion between perception and experience. The more we are identified with rigid ideas, thicker is the mind and greater is the distortion.
Mental health depends on the thickness of the mind.
All kinds of nationalism and religious fundamentalism are creating such mental distortion that contact with consciousness is lost. Watching the mind is a safe method to dive into the individual and collective unconscious and clean it of rigid mental structures that prevent us from entering into contact with our consciousness. Watching is the function of consciousness. Once mind stops, consciousness can watch and recognise itself. Watching the mind is so evident that we do not need any proof for it, it is an individual self-healing and research method, which reaches beyond the mind and time into direct experiece of ourselves and of the universe.