Your mind is a gift, a remarkable work of nature. But like a best friend or a spouse, it can get pretty pesky. Especially when it won't stop thinking negative thoughts.
Have you ever tried to stop yourself from thinking? It's harder than it sounds. The only time I ever fully achieve this is when I watch reality TV, in which case my brain actually begins to atrophy.
In order to find inner peace, we must also find inner silence. Silence is often underated and almost impossible to find in this day and age. There are many ways to go about this, either through meditation, visualization, or other means.
I found this 4-step guide a very good way to cleanse your mind and think more positively. It even comes with a wallet size print out you can keep to remind yourself in times of doubt or negativity. The 4 steps are discussed in detail and make a lot of sense.
Are there other methods you use to quie your mind? If so, drop us a comment and share with the community.
How to Quiet Your Mind
By Tina Su
Do you regularly feel at ease and at peace? Are you continuously overflowing with Joy and Bliss on a daily basis, such that you seem free of problems and emotional pain? If so, go directly to the comment section and share with us your secrets.
If you’re still reading, you are amongst the vast majority of us striving for a better life, yearning for a more peaceful and joyful existence. Yet, it seems like an impossible challenge, where we end up mentally punishing ourselves for failing, concluding that “I’m just not made to live in peace.”
You see, it’s not us, it’s just that we’ve become so easily distracted by the hurrying demands of modern life, that we’ve temporarily lost touch with our natural state of being. But there is a way, if we seek it.
The purpose of this article is to share a simple technique to bring more peace, joy and clarity into your life. Would you like that?
Why It’s Hard to Find Peace and Joy?
If you observe our problems, you will notice that most problems are rooted in the mind. The basic premise is the same: some external event happens, we choose to see only one side of the story, and then interpret the situation such that it causes some form of mental conflict, resulting in some form of emotional suffering.
While it is easy to simply say, “drop your problems”, you and I both know that it is not that simple. We all have had years and years of conditioning in attracting problems and conflicts. So much so, that the simple concept of ’stop thinking about problems’ will not be so effective on us. We need tools that strike at the problem’s root.
Let’s now try something. Close your eyes for about a minute (or 5 minutes), and during this minute, send out the intention that you want silence and stillness, and you do not want to be pulled away from this silence by thoughts. (Pause your reading and go do this.)
Okay, so what happened? You probably noticed that the moment you become silent, thoughts started popping up - random and unrelated thoughts. These thoughts become a form of distraction, pulling us away from our inner silence.
This was only an experiment where we consciously observed our mind and tried to become still, but could not. Imagine the state of our inner space, while we are going about our day, unaware of the polluting in-coming thoughts.
As a result, our inner space becomes cluttered with useless information, with thoughts that are not conducive to our wellbeing, with garbage. Because our inner space is cluttered, our inner clarity and in-born wisdom becomes distant and foggy. And essentially, we loose touch with that part of our inner selves that is sacred, and wise, and peaceful, and eternal.
In the early 1970's I was diagnosed a "Manic Depressive" To make a long story short, my counselor told me "Some people are afraid of success" I believe that fit me to a "T" A close friend and I went to a FREE seminar and ended up taking a 48 hour class from the Mind Control Institute in January, 1973. This article brought back memories. You see one of my worst enemies is procrastination. To avoid doing things I need to do, I'll drop everything I'm doing to help someone else, yet, I fail to TAKE CARE OF ME properly. I've been retired since 2002 and am so busy I need a 48 hour day to do the things most people do in a 24 hour day. Why? PROCRASTINATION.
What impressed me most about this article was:
"if we are not careful, we can easily rush through life, while spending our precious time on this planet focused on that which does not matter - and then wonder where did my life go? Why do I feel unsettled and easily irritated? Why do I feel unfulfilled and incomplete? And then we die wondering.
If you are here, breathing and reading this right now, then you have been blessed with this day, to wake up! Wake up and take control of your destiny, starting with what you focus on and allow into your life (regardless of your age)."
Their is an old saying "The truth is the light". Trust me, I see it, I know it, and as of this day, July 4, 2009 I am making a determination to do something about it.
Thanks so much Tina Su for writing this article!