To establish something, I ask you, or rather I challenge you to think of a blue polar bear for a whole day. The moment you wake up start thinking and don't stop until you have at least been awake for 8-12 hours only thinking about a blue polar bear.
I say you can't do it. Your mind wanders off to somewhere else. It gets bored chewing on that same thought, much like your sense of smell gets used to a recurring odor in the air. Or like something loses taste if you have it too often.
Now that we've established that, the next thing I point out is that when you live through your daily life, you always think of something. When you walk on the street and see a dog or an attractive person, it produces a thought like "Oh that reminds me, I gotta change my tires" or whatever. The mind always finds something to think about. There is always something on your mind, something being processed, something to worry about. A mental load. Right?
Okay, so imagine that you were locked in a dark room, with only your thoughts. You'd eventually run out of things to think about. You exhaust your existing thoughts, you process them to their end, finishing them so to say and since there is no [interesting] sensory stimulus, you have nothing old nor new to think about. When you run out of thoughts, what will happen?
And that's how I view meditation, it's a form of clearing out the mental workspace, finishing up incomplete thoughts, unloading the mental load. It's about emptying your mind from all the clutter. It's a moment where the mind finally has nothing to stress or worry about. It's a moment that you give yourself; your moment.* It's a moment that you don't use thinking about something else. It's a break from the constant grinding of your mental gears. It's about getting a peace of mind. So the mind may rest.
*Thoughts are either about the past or of the future, you can't think about the exact present moment.
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