What Makes a Good Day? Get to Know Your Mind
Sometimes we have bad days, and sometimes we have good ones. But what makes a good day, really?
It’s probably different for all of us, but I’m going to share with you what I’ve noticed on myself.
On bad days, my mind is like a cluttered desk–full of trash, old and new. It’s hard to do anything, because my mind keeps nagging me, easily making me anxious.
On my good days, on the other hand, my mind is empty. It lets me live freely, without thought. Everything I do is easy, because thoughts don’t keep weighing me down. It’s like life has lost all of its weight.
When we have a clear mind, everything we do is just so much easier. Because what do thoughts do, really? They complicate things. If our mind is empty, we can simply do what we are doing. Without being exhausted by thoughts in the process.
If we haven’t spent time familiarizing ourselves with our mind, we might not even notice. I know that I was once a person who didn’t even realize how important our thoughts were. I never really studied them, because you don’t often hear that that’s something you should be doing.
Today, I know how important it is, and my life has changed since I got to know my mind and the habitual thoughts it circulates like a washing machine.
Tranquilizers do the same thing–they empty your mind. And as I’ve said before, the same effect can be reached naturally, by learning how to empty the mind.
Concentrate On What’s Real (Hint: Your Thoughts Are Not)
What is real is always just the present moment. Nothing else. So, rather than the delusions of the mind, concentrate your attention on reality, which is the present moment.
Now that you’ve established that what your thoughts portray are not real or important in the present moment, you can let them go with ease and lose yourself in what you are doing without thought. Read the rest>>
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