It’s Only A Mind and its Job is to Think
02 Mar 2010 ~ Categories: blog • mind • wellness
Sometimes I want to stop my brain. Stop it from thinking. Stop it from thinking things I don’t want to think anymore. Just STOP already. But try as I might it just doesn’t stop. My mind just keeps on thinking and thinking and thinking.
Sound familiar?
It’s helpful to remember that it’s just a brain and it’s doing its job. In fact, when the mind is generating a lot of thoughts it’s actually doing it’s job really well. Kudos, mind, even though you are a pain in my brain a lot of the time. When the mind is at work it’s often trying to protect me as the operating system for my body. After all it’s with thought that this operating system works better than any other animal on the planet.
But we humans are well served to remember that we are so much more than a brain and the mind that is our constant companion. And it’s been providing me with relief lately when my mind is heavy and busy and feeling too full of thoughts, to use that very brain to remember…
It’s only a mind,
Amy
