Do more whether you think less or not
I’m starting to realize that a lot of this work is less about thinking and more about doing.
I can understand mindfulness.
I can understand my patterns.
I can understand why my brain reacts the way it does.
But at some point, I actually have to practice having a different relationship with what’s happening in my head.
Because my mind is going to think.
It’s going to judge sometimes.
It’s going to replay things.
It’s going to predict what might happen.
It’s going to throw up alarm bells when something feels familiar.
I don’t think the goal is to make all of that disappear.
I think part of the practice is getting comfortable letting my mind think in the background without automatically attaching myself to everything it says.
And THAT takes repetition.
Especially when my brain is sounding an alarm and my body is reacting like something needs my immediate attention.
Instead of trying to think my way out of it, I’m practicing noticing:
There’s the thought.
There’s the emotion.
There’s what I’m feeling in my body.
There might even be something here that I need.
But then there’s another piece I’m learning to leave room for:
What am I choosing to do with it?
The thought can exist without becoming a whole story.
The feeling can exist without becoming something I have to fix immediately.
My body can give me information without every sensation automatically meaning something is wrong.
I can let all of those things be part of the conversation without handing any one of them the steering wheel.
And I think that’s where repetition matters so much.
The alarm goes off.
I notice it.
I don’t have to fight it.
I don’t have to follow it.
I stay here.
And little by little, I’m giving myself a different experience.
Maybe the practice isn’t getting my mind to finally be quiet.
Maybe it’s realizing it can make all the noise it needs to in the background…
and I can still choose what I attach myself to. 🌱
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Do more whether you think less or not
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