Calm the Monkey Mind
Is your mind like a monkey? Jumping from branch to branch, from thought to thought? Now don’t get frustrated if your mind doesn’t stop monkeying around, and don’t force it to be still. Instead, harness the playfulness of the monkey mind to think creatively and constructively.
When your mind gets fidgety, reminding you of this and that, make a note of it so that your monkey mind doesn’t need to think about it any longer. When it starts making a fuss about what others did or didn’t do, tell your monkey mind not to worry about what others are doing.
When the monkey mind becomes unruly, give it a few minutes to run wild, and then take your mind to different locations. Let it swing in a hammock, under a palm tree on a tropical island…. And hopefully it’ll calm down.
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