For your practice today.
Either a comfortable seated position or laying down.
Practice is on letting go of fixing.
When there is discontentment,
Natural habit is to correct it.
The mind goes into fix it mode.
This often results in overthinking and trying to solve a problem.
Although reflection and goal setting are useful,
The obsession with fixing is often not.
This exercise offers a technique to work with this fix it thinking.
You can use it in this meditation practice but also return to this way of thinking at any time during your day when you notice the mind is stuck on a loop of problem solving.
So start by taking a few deep breaths energizing your body with that breath in and begin to tune into your thoughts.
What problem are you working on to solve at the moment?
Is there something specific you want to figure out or fix?
Notice the issue itself not your thoughts about it.
Try to clearly see what the problem is rather than focusing on the solution.
With the problem in your mind notice any discomfort you feel around it.
It may be some fear of the unknown,
Insecurity or a desire to plan something.
Whatever you experience look at the issue with tender awareness.
There's no need to judge yourself,
Beat yourself up or jump right into fixing.
Just be with the discomfort for a moment as you rest in the awareness of the problem to be solved.
Begin tuning into your mind and your body.
Is there tension in your body?
Notice where it is.
Recognize when the mind jumps in the desire to fix the discomfort by saying to yourself fixing.
Labeling what is happening with the attention of meeting your experience with patience.
Offer yourself a few phrases in full care.
I see this discomfort.
My mind wants to fix it.
May I be with this problem.
Now just take a minute to yourself and ask yourself what can be done.
You don't need to come up with a clear step by step plan.
Just offer yourself the simplest solution possible.
Allow a basic solution to arise.
Diving too deeply into the story around it.
Simple solution,
Overthinking it.
Back into awareness of your body,
Feeling your breath,
Feeling your mind now has some clarity and clearness to it to flow into your day.
