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Practice becoming unglued
Posted by Pat on April 24, 2016 in Uncategorized | ∞
Thinking doesn’t always serve us!
When we rely on our mind to tell how things are, we are asking for trouble!
Our brain…
- selects from vast amounts of incoming information,
- weaves fragments of information into creative fantasies,
- fills gaps with assumptions and beliefs, with rules, wishes, fears.
Our awareness becomes glued to our thoughts, and our thoughts to our feelings and then our actions.
So how do we become “unglued?”
- Lose interest in our thoughts and
see them as passing through. We don’t have to stop them or change them. That would just take too much energy to sustain. - Become the Witness: “I told myself not to worry.”
- Know that thoughts don’t essentially mean anything-UNLESS you believe them.
- Just change your channel for different vibrations (don’t like the news station, then go to the classical music station!)
My sister and I have a routine we enjoy to keep us from being glued to being right. When one of us shares a possible thought as an explanation for something, we also add
“I made that up, but it might be true!”
After all, most folks used to think the world was flat. And that’s a good example of the “ungluing” that we can do… and probably need to do more of! (think of current political beliefs!)
Don’t let your random thoughts unravel your life… You can just let them go!
Use the gift we all have: CHOICE:
- use your freedom to choose,
- allow your thoughts to be fluid,
- unglue yourself from those thoughts that no longer serve you.
8 Comments
Wow! I think you wrote this just for me. Because of all my medical problems lately, I have been overthinking. Sometimes to the point of wanting to slap myself in the face or pull my hair out. Although I do know better, I get caught up. So thank you for the permission to stop thinking, change the channel or make things up that please me (like kids do).
I think that we create our own limitations by believing in them. And so we need to “be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed” as I read in a quote from Audrey Hepburn.
I will try this. Thank You
Glad to hear from you Barbara! Trying something one more time, trying something new for the first time- both give us a chance to choose and/or change.
Thanks again Pat! My brain was absolutely whirling with thoughts (dumb ones at that!!) when I read this and so I am giving myself permission to let them float on by! Deep breaths……….
Very well-said Pat.
I needed your comments…..and those deep breathes do help. I think “a day at a time….works too”
I know I’m not the only one going through this trauma but….they all say “it will get better in time….some times I hardly believe this but…..I know people are right!!
Joyce, I know that each of us grieves in our own way and timeframe, and the path is sometimes convoluted! When Bob died last fall, I too wondered how I would manage. The hospice grief support group was a great help, yet seeing a light at the end of the tunnel is not the same thing as getting out of the tunnel. Allowing, letting, releasing-all are important words in my life right now. Know my thoughts and prayers are with you.