Taming The Monkey Mind

If you struggle with an overactive monkey mind, these soothing words can help. You can simply allow Andrea to speak directly to your busy mind or you can feel your wise, compassionate heart speaking to your monkey mind anytime it starts doing its monkey minding!

Music by Chris Collins.

Transcript

Welcome.

The term monkey mind is a Buddhist concept that describes a state of restlessness and an inability to control our thoughts.

In today's practice,

I will be speaking directly to the monkey mind.

You can try to absorb my words or you can imagine that your own compassionate heart and wise mind are speaking to that busy monkey mind.

Feel free to sit or lie down in a comfortable position or you can listen to these words any time.

Let's begin with a couple of slow,

Deep breaths.

Dear monkey mind,

You move so fast from one thought to another,

Trying to get it all figured out ahead of time.

Such a busy,

Overworked mind.

I know you're just trying to make sure everything gets done and get everything figured out.

The world is moving at such an unnaturally fast pace and you've gotten caught up in all the busyness,

Trying to keep up,

Comparing,

Competing.

You try so hard,

Dear monkey mind,

But here's what I want you to know.

When you bounce around from one stressful thought to another,

It leads this body to feel overstimulated,

Overactivated,

And unsafe.

This pumps out stress hormones and they don't feel good.

What also happens when you stay so busy and overactivated doing your monkey mind business is that you drown out the wisdom of the heart,

The soft inner whisper of wisdom that knows what we need in any given moment.

This heart knows if we need more fresh air,

More nature,

More meditating,

More deep breaths,

More water,

More support,

More comfort,

Quiet,

Fresh food,

Rest,

Music,

Dancing,

Or compassionate welcoming of emotions.

Or maybe our heart will let us know that we need less of something,

Less screen time,

Less news,

Less late nights,

Less rushing,

Less multitasking.

So would you be willing to work with me,

Dear monkey mind?

We are in this together.

I do need my wise mind to help with decisions and actions,

But I don't need you overthinking,

Rehashing,

And future tripping all the time.

It's not how our mind was designed.

I understand that you're only trying to help,

And you're responding to stressful things that have happened and to the unnatural pace of life,

But we do have a natural system in place.

Our wise mind and heartfelt intuition can take care of it all,

And you can rest more.

Can we work together on this?

Can you settle down and take more rest breaks?

And I will get better at tuning inside more and listening to what we need.

I will take more deep breaths,

And I will listen to the soft inner knowing of the compassionate heart and wise mind.

And you can settle down and slow down and know that heart and wisdom have things covered.

Let's try it now.

Can you let go of all the topics you've been juggling,

Dear monkey mind?

Can you release it all and rest,

And we can take some slow,

Deep breaths?

Let's feel the safety of this moment and let life unfold.

Reviews

Thank you for creating this chat with the monkey mind. This may be a daily listen for me.

Thank you for speaking to my monkey mine this morning. It needed to hear all the things that you had to say with your calm and soothing voice. This one I will need to come back to.

I loved this, thank you!

I truly appreciate the wisdom contained within this meditation as I try to become more centered and present. Thank you!

Another very helpful short meditation thanks Andrea 😊
As always Andrea, your meditations for anxiety and busyness are a real balm. Thank you.
This continues to be a valuable circuit breaker thsns Andrea.🙏🫶

Very nice. Clear and soothing

Andrea very beautifully unfolded the Monkey Mind & its consequences. I think detail course on the taming of monkey mind is very much needed. Thanks!!

Wonderful soothing meditation; I'll return to this often . Thank you!🙏🩷

Very interesting, I felt as if you were talking directly to me, calming and understanding. Thank you for this practice. Yes interesting

My wise mind really appreciated your intervention!

Thank you! 🙏🏽

Just what I needed, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

These words resonated with me more than any others. Thank you. I needed this. This was life changing for me. 🙏

Brilliant!

I laughed when you said you would talk directly to my Monkey Mind, but believe me, it needed a good talking-to!
Thank you! What a delightful and helpful meditation!
Namaste, Andrea!
Donna

Andrea tells me exactly what I need to hear every time! The absolute best!

Much needed today 🙏💜

Very gentle scolding of the monkey mind. More of “you’re not needed here, we’ve got this”. Made me realize how very harsh I am to myself. Time for this better approach.