My mind is a marvelous tool. It dissects and analyzes ideas and issues with speed and precision. It slices through layers of pretense and premise to reveal the core threads of a story.
Then it weaves those threads into luxurious tapestries — richly colored ideas and stories. Although sometimes it spins the threads into sticky webs.
It’s constantly working. Psychologist Eric Masiel writes in his book Why Smart People Hurt that the mind doesn’t come with an off switch.
And it’s exhausting.
The hyper vigilance that flows from awareness drains my energy. The constant intuiting what others feel and think can leave me separated from my own experience.
It’s too much.
One way I work with this is to create an “off switch” through various modalities, including exercise, sound healing, Breathwork, and yoga nidra.
Most important: I try to let go of ideas. Not everything needs to be dissected and explored. I don’t need to be a part of every conversation.
It’s ok to let things go.
welcome to your mind
always churning never off
unless you let go
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