We all have a reactive mind. It is that voice that chatters every moment
you are awake. It is okay to have
negative thoughts and the important thing is to know that that is not who you
are at your very core. Yes, it is a part
of you but those thoughts are fleeting.
Those thoughts can swirl within you and acknowledging them and letting
them go is how you quiet them.
It is said that we have up to fifty thousand plus
thoughts a day (40 thoughts a minute) and those thoughts are the ones you are
conscious of. There are unconscious
thoughts.
It pays to take note of your thoughts. I know, somehow, I learned to control those
negative thoughts. In part, my thoughts
are mostly list making. My doctor said
that that is a sign of OCD and I agree with him. I am not wont to change that. It is when I get my ‘lists’ done that there
is space for the negative thoughts and those usually come at night when
everything is still around me. I learned
not to let them generate. I simply force
the thoughts to something else, usually something I am grateful for or something
spiritual. I am a wolf spirit and I
often turn my negative thoughts into traditional/cultural thoughts of the wolf
and all its symbolic meanings.
Sometimes my thoughts can wear me out. No matter what I am doing, my thoughts are
roaming around like a lost sheep or a cow caught on the wrong side of the
fence. They can go a hundred miles a
minute and my body reacts to that. I
wills top doing whatever I am doing and give my thoughts some thought.
Validating that the thought is there, reasoning with
it/them helps to dissipate them. It is,
when lost in some painting I am doing helps me get lost in creative space. That is the moments I find peace from that
chattering mind of mine.
How do you quiet your mind?
©Carol Desjarlais 6.30.20
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