Why does your mind pick 3am? You have thirty to forty thoughts a minute and you asked for none of them. The mistake is deciding the goal is a blank, silent mind.
Set that as the target and the trains keep coming and you feel like you are failing at it. You are not. Here is the whole thing in one sentence. You are not the thought, you are the one listening to it. Because if you can hear it, you cannot only be it. There is a tiny space between the thought and the reaction, usually too small to notice, and that gap is the thing that changes everything.
One thing to try: Let one train in tonight and stay on the bench. You never had to empty the station.
In this episode
(0:00) Thirty to forty thoughts a minute, and 3am
(2:23) The mind does not care that you are tired. It has a list
(3:33) The whole episode in one sentence
(4:11) If you can hear the thought, you cannot only be the thought
(5:25) A thought pulls in, and you do not have to get on it
(7:17) At twenty he will still hand you the green sweet
(9:03) The tiny space, so small we do not know it is there
(13:09) You are the quiet one on the bench who watched every one
With gratitude to
Addie, Darren, Alice, Caroline and My Herb. And Sin, Annie, Laura, Adam, Dominique and Senga. A special thank you to Stuart, two years a monthly supporter.
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