There is something about slowing down or stopping that freaks the shite out of me!
Afraid of the quiet mind.. Perhaps true.. Fearful of not being productive Fear of stopping & sitting still.. Perhaps all very true..
Sitting quietly is foreign to me. I have managed to find a stretch practice to help slow me down. I ice-dip intermittently which takes a certain amount of mental focus & discipline. Short burst of being quiet or finding stillness is easier for me. Longer stretches of stillness have me feeling decidedly uncomfortable.
If you ever wonder if you have a conversation running in the background of your mind, that can push the body into overdrive, sit still & alone for a few minutes with nothing to distract you. You will surely realise you have lots & lots of thoughts and therefore will have plenty of reasons you want to get up & allow yourself to be distracted.. The mind chatter can push us at times when we need to stop.
Again, that is so easy to write but truly hard to do in the every day..
I have thoughts that pop up around being unproductive. And what often has happened is that I run around doing so many things I can’t actually get back to the first job I started, or something burns on the stove because I got distracted. Then I’m flustered & get down on myself. Not good. Not productive. Somewhere along my journey I allowed myself to be sucked in by the ‘need to be busy’ as it is seemingly productive.. Wrong!
Just sayin that being ‘busy’ is not always the best option nor does it reflect the true needs of the day & learning a different approach could be the balance the mind & body needs..
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