When meditating it is possible to acheive a state where you switch off the mind. This state will help you find a new energy and a new view of the World around you Your mind works constantly and never rests. So if you can achieve a state of rest for your mind it will be refreshed and come alive witt fresh ideas and a zest for life. The way I have started to achieve this is to listen to my breathing. Others may wish to learn more formal approaches such as Transcendental Meditation. The best way may be for you to invent your own method of achieving a mind at rest.
We have been told by many moral leaders that we should fight the things of darkness. However the more spiritual teachers of the world say you cannot do anything with darkness you can only bring light to a situation. If you think about physical darkness it is there and the sun makes it go away take away the sun and darkness returns. So it is with our imperfections bring light into a situation and the darkness melts away without any fighting. If you fight then you strengthen the darkness it fights back gaining in strength until your resolve weakens and you circum to the darkness once again bring light to the darkness and the darkness has gone no fighting.
How do bring light to a situation? Well first of all you understand the darkness then you love the problem, and then you concentrate on the light itself. What is Light? Light is love. what you do is let out your love and bring it to the situation and the world. In this way your love can dispel your darkness. It is rather like the story of the lost sheep. The Shepard left those sheep who were safe and brought those who were lost back into the fold. Your darkness is like a lost sheep go find it bring it back with the love you have and it will blend in the light and become love itself.