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1 Simple Trick to Instantly Quiet Your Mind
I started meditating about two years ago.
While I could write an article about the unbelievable benefits I can now attest to as to how it can change your life, I won’t.
Instead, I want to share with you one awesome mental trick I created for myself based on a common meditation idea.
That common idea has to do with clouds. The concept is, as thoughts come into your head, to imagine them as clouds and watch them as they float by. In other words, tons of thoughts come into our heads every day. That’s called thinking. However, when you begin to hold on to some of those thoughts, especially ones that are stressful or anxiety inducing, they can quickly blow up into feeling like they are bigger problems then they really are.
If you laid your thoughts on a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being calm and 10 being full of stress and anxiety, here’s how thoughts tend to play out: if a thought comes into your head as a “1,” and you let it back out of our head, it won’t feel much bigger than a “1.” But, if a thought comes into your head as a “1,” and you hold on to it, playing the thought over and over and over in your mind, it begins to feel like a “5.” If you keep doing that without either letting the thought pass or taking action on it, it will start to feel like a “10.”
