30/03/2022
“FILE UNDER : None of My Beeswax” Mindful 🍯🧘🏼♂️🐝
The brain is an impressive machine, designed to calculate fight-or-flight reactions in mere nano seconds. 🧠
Great when you’re trying to fight off or run from a bear or a dinosaur. 🐻 🦖 Not so great at 3AM when you’re trying to sleep. ⏰
And the thoughts keep buzzing in your noggin like a swarm of agitated bees. 🐝🐝🐝
The brain, like any machine (especially printers 🖨), often gets stuck — especially on thoughts outside of our locus of control. Like how other people behave. (Which you simply can’t control, you can only *choose* to respond. Facts.)
What is beautiful about the brain, however, is that it elegantly functions on multiple operating systems simultaneously. 📲
So you can (with practice) switch an active thought into a deactivated memory 💾 — or decide to make it a passing thought that does not even get saved at all.
For thoughts that about people/places/things you can’t control, try filing it under “None of My Business.” 🗂🗄 Or toss it. 🗑 [Empty Trash]
Then see if you can move onto the next thought… which I promise, is already on its way. (At least 70k of them.) ✨✨✨
If it’s a stubborn unpleasant thought, that’s okay. Keep practice filing it. Maybe write it down, if necessary, to run it through the “Is this even true?” processor. (Many of the thoughts and beliefs we pick up in our lifetimes often don’t even belong to Us.)
Practice until it becomes a habit, until it gets easier to identify and categorize (also called ‘Noting’) one’s thoughts.
This brain-remapping meditation helps one go from a “busybody” to a calm body. 🧘🏻♀️🧘🏼♂️
(*In some cases, one may require additional professional help — but it’s good to see if a simple restart can get your system back to smooth operations.)
Treat your mind like someone you love. 💖🧠
And nourish it with better, kinder thoughts that are sweet as honey. Now THAT is your beeswax.
💛🍯✨