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Well, you certainly aren’t alone on that. Quite often I find myself frantically switching from thought to thought to thought. It sure drains a person. I wish sometimes that I could just shut off my mind and spend a few minutes thinking of nothing at all. Nothing.
Peaceful and grateful. Both beautiful things to be- though not easy to achieve. I had such a hard time falling asleep through school that my parents bought me a tape recorder so i wouldn’t have to turn on a light to write things down.
Mediation totally escapes me, but then again I’m not sure I would really want a silent mind. I wish I could have a checklist that allows me to check things that I DON’T want to think about….
Mmmm, what gets me all the time isn’t rethinking old conversations so much as imagining potential ones. There are some people I’ve had more imaginary conversations with than real ones, I think; sometimes it’s about anticipating a confrontation, other times it’s wishful thinking, other times it’s just blather.
Whatever it is, I don’t know how to shut it off either.
Go to a yoga class. A good instructor starts the class by reminding you that for the next 60 – 90 minutes there is no need to be anywhere else or to be thinking about anything but what your body is doing. It took me a while to get used to it and for the first few classes I had to constantly remind myself to shut it all off but I find it easier now and I soooo look forward to that time!
So often we are both on the same wavelength. It’s scary really.
I echo Coralynn’s advice. Yoga helps quiet the inner hubbub tremendously. So does meditation or tai chi.
They might seem like very hippy-dippy New Agey things to do but the truth is, they offer tremendous mental and physical benefits.
(The spiritual benefits are simply an added bonus. ;-)
Hummingbirds are never peaceful. So I guess that’s that for me :(
I think you can be peaceful :) I hope so anyways!
A lot of this resonated with me. Now, I’m the least new-agey person you could imagine, but I’ve found that any form of structured, scheduled (and preferably witnessed?) relaxation exercise can yield benefits. In my case, it was having regular reiki sessions with a trainee practitioner. Now, I don’t really *believe* all that guff about balancing chakras – but I freely *chose* to buy into it, and bury my doubts – and I have to say that the sessions really did tune down the static in my brain, quite remarkably so.