I want to understand if meditation is scientific. Also, can meditation work for a person like me who can’t turn off their brain?
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There really isn’t any need for the question whether meditation is scientific. That’d be like asking whether vizualizing things in your mind’s eye is scientific.
There’s nothing special, let alone supernatural, to it. It’s simply a way in which you can train and use your own mind. It’s no more extraordinary than calculating in your head, or remembering numbers, or whatever else.
Expanding on what others have said (“meditation is exactly FOR people who can’t turn their brain off”), I’d like to point out that meditation isn’t really about turning your thoughts off. It’s about becoming aware of your mental processes without judging, analyzing or otherwise engaging with them. You don’t so much stop your thoughts as disengage from them and do your best to become a neutral observer, robbing the chaos of your thinking mind of its power over you.
Again, this is not something that you just do. It’s something that requires practice, and patience with yourself.
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