{"id":19632,"date":"2018-01-09T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/?p=19632"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:44:45","slug":"mental-health-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/mental-health-for-all\/","title":"Mental Health for All","content":{"rendered":"<p>On days when things are going really badly, it feels as if nothing you\u2019d looked forward to is panning out and new problems keep emerging from around the corner. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/why-you-need-a-self-care-plan\/\">You didn\u2019t plan on missing the bus<\/a>, and then the strap on your backpack broke, and just then your sister called to say she had some worrisome test results. And right about then, a friend tells you to \u201cJust relax!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How annoying is that?<\/p>\n<p>Relaxation is distinctly <em>not<\/em> something you can just command yourself to do. It needs to come over you and perhaps, ultimately, to overcome you. That\u2019s one of the reasons so many of us grow to appreciate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/take-a-mindful-moment-5-simple-practices-for-daily-life\/\">mindfulness practice<\/a>. It sneaks up on stress from the side. It lulls us into letting go of obsessively grasping for a permanent security blanket. But we\u2019re not instructed to \u201cjust relax.\u201d We\u2019re instructed to pay attention to something that can\u2019t help but be in the present: the breath, the body, sensations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Paradoxically, as our attention and focus increase, our excess <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/how-to-manage-stress-with-mindfulness-and-meditation\/\">stress decreases<\/a>. We become, for a time at least, a well-tuned instrument.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We all crave\u2014and need\u2014this relief so much that it\u2019s tempting to stop there. Mindfulness practice relaxed us (maybe even better than sleep), end of story. This notion persists in the popular media: The point of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/how-to-meditate\/\">meditation<\/a> is to escape to your own private bliss-island, to get away from it all.<\/p>\n<p>But that would be a waste of all that relaxation.<\/p>\n<p>The point of the relaxation is not to get away from it all; it\u2019s to get into it all. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/meditation\/mindfulness-getting-started\/\">Mindfulness<\/a> doesn\u2019t end at relaxation. It begins there. The relaxation gives you just enough stability to see what\u2019s happening in your mind and to gently inquire, investigate. What you see may start to upset you, but you have a chance to see patterns form in your mind and to detect firsthand the formation and continuation of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/simple-way-break-bad-habit\/\"> habits that drive your actions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It can be tough stuff, so at that point, you just notice it and come back to the anchor in your practice, such as your breath. Encountering what\u2019s lurking in your mind\u2014the good, the bad, and the ugly\u2014may inspire you to develop more relaxation, so you can go diving and exploring again and see more.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/the-science-of-mindfulness\/\">mindfulness is a practice for mental health<\/a>\u2026for everyone\u2019s mental health, which is the motivation behind the work of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindfulnessstudies.com\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInK7u_8m82AIVELnACh0o1wVFEAAYASAAEgI9wfD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Mindfulness Studies<\/a>, in Toronto (full disclosure: I serve on the board of directors). Among its many offerings, the Centre trains mental health professionals in mindfulness so they can first reduce their own stress, then help their clients with mindfulness- based skills to resiliently work with the mental challenges of their daily lives. The Centre\u2019s community work, carried out in partnership with social service agencies, has a peer-to-peer component, whereby the clients themselves draw on their own lived experience and personal mindfulness skills to help other clients develop resilience and self-care. This practice of sharing can lessen the need for one-on-one therapy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great example of how far mindfulness can go when we don\u2019t stop at relief, but instead move on to real insight and habit change.<\/p>\n<h6>This article appeared in the February 2018 issue of Mindful magazine.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor in Chief Barry Boyce on why meditation shows promise for your mental health. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19764,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1216,17600,17617],"tags":[17107],"departments":[1274],"issues":[1229,1254],"coauthors":[749],"class_list":["post-19632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","category-learn","category-research-science","tag-mental-health","departments-departments","issues-1229","issues-02-2018"],"acf":[],"site_id":1,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mental Health for All - Mindful<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Editor in Chief Barry Boyce on why meditation shows promise for your mental health.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/mental-health-for-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mental Health for All\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editor in Chief Barry Boyce on why meditation shows promise for your mental health.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/mental-health-for-all\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mindful\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mindfulorg\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-09T06:00:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-31T15:44:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.mindful.org\/content\/uploads\/boyce-mentalhealth-feb18.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"740\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"357\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Barry Boyce\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Shihnode\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MindfulOnline\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Barry Boyce\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mindful.org\\\/mental-health-for-all\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mindful.org\\\/mental-health-for-all\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Barry Boyce\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mindful.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/70a73cbad70fe4de01a92517cebd72a3\"},\"headline\":\"Mental Health for All\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-01-09T06:00:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-31T15:44:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mindful.org\\\/mental-health-for-all\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":561,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mindful.org\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mindful.org\\\/mental-health-for-all\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.mindful.org\\\/content\\\/uploads\\\/boyce-mentalhealth-feb18.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mental Health\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Expert Interviews\",\"Learn\",\"Research &amp; 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