(370) settle slowly down
close your eyes; cross-legged, on your bed, on the floor, let your mind settle from its racing thoughts; let each darting spinning moving-too-fast thought settle slowly into its riverbed laying down, at last, to rest.
let the thought’s content, its message, play out in that large cacophony, you don’t have to hide from the thoughts, or run from them; let them slowly, thousand by hundred by ten by one, lay down to rest; after squawking its tune or words.
they are only thoughts. do not follow them down to their riverhomes, where they lay down to rest. stay where you are; cross-legged, on your bed, on the floor, looking at the inside of your own eyelids.
if they are particularly turbulent, focus on your own breathing - in for a count of four, out for a count of four, repeat; in - two - three - four out - two - three - four
realize that the thoughts may come as snippets of word-thought, music, images, even smells and touch or taste they may come in familiar fears or excitements.
feel the anxiety in the physical part of the body that bears it, and let it pass, for it will this too shall pass and settle it down next to the thoughts like a lumbering bear beside silver-fish; until you, only, are -
breathing (in - two - three - four, out - two - three - four) only presiding, present in the moment, over resting fishes and bears; cross-legged, on your bed, on the floor, with your eyes closed.