Just stop

I attended a retreat a couple of weeks ago called "Come Home to Your Heart."

The greatest takeaway for me was a simple method for calming the mind when it is engaged in its inevitable mind chatter, ruminating about the past and worrying about the future.

This comes from Gangaji:  STOP.  Tell the Truth. Be Still.  This comes from me: lather, rinse, repeat and repeat and repeat.

It sounds so simple, and it is, and it isn't.  Give it a shot.  My mind has been running wild lately with worries about money and the future and the unknown and the past and the "woulda coulda shoulda."  Enough to make anyone feel blunted, blue, anxious, edgy.


I started STOP (sometimes "yelling" it at myself in my head).  Deep breath, Tell the Truth (usually looks like:  "I'm scared." "I'm sad" "I'm tired" "I'm lonely").  Be Still: breathe, be with the truth.  Be you, now.

It's helping.