Wednesday Pause: Watching The Mind

Happy 2022! How do we practice disengaging and discernment so that we don't end up exhausting ourselves unnecessarily? In this mindfulness meditation, we watch our thoughts, coming and going as they are as we are a third party, not judging, not needing to react to every single thing the mind tells us to do. Here we are just sitting quietly and watching.

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Thank you so much. I wanted to share the thoughts that arose in my mind during this wonderful meditation:

There is a discomfort in the body when it is experiencing a thought that provokes action.
Before the action can be complete - the discomfort gets stronger and stronger - like an itch - to the point of pain until it can be relieved.

Consuming information that angers us that we can’t do anything about keeps the body in this state - and we create pain in ourselves just with our attention.

An itch can be relieved if we can move our attention away.

Most of the time, all our actions are governed by this pain. The slightest discomfort drives us into action.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.
We don’t have to only be moved by pain.
We can choose our movements.
We can break into our free will.
With some mental discipline and patience.