When my niece was 3 or 4 years old she was sitting quietly
in the backseat of the car Dad was driving and he asked her “What are you
doing?” She answered “I am
thinking. It’s very nice. You should try it some time.”
When Dad asked his Mom a complicated sort of question she
would say “I don’t want to burden my brain with that.”
Mom’s teacher would tell her students “If you can add, you
can think.”
When life or work got too hectic or I had too much on my
mind I would say “I wish I could take my head off to rest it for a while.”
Mom will sometimes sit in a dark room and when I ask her
what she is doing she will say “Thinking.”
Thinking is a blessing and a curse, as Mr. Monk would
say. Sometimes our brains can get
overrun with our thoughts which can be exhausting. The trick to staying calm is to take a
timeout which can be done in various ways.
Getting away from your desk or whatever you are doing and taking a quiet
little walk is one way. Just going into
another part of the house or office where you can be alone for a few minutes
can also do it. Once alone just breathe.
The trouble with today is that we have become multitaskers;
we don’t feel we are effective if we aren’t doing more than one task at a
time. We are also in love with speed. Both these beliefs are think killers. We go into autopilot and actually don’t even
think.
Start the day on a quiet note and try not to get distracted
by another task while doing the first one.
Remember that your sanity is important!
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that
everything in this life has a purpose.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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