GnomeCaptain |
03-07-2019 09:05 PM |
If you seek relief from incessant, compulsive thought consider any activity that allows you to focus on the process or surroundings.
Go out in nature, take a walk or hike or jog.
I see you like swimming, that's the best.
Or you can focus on your body itself, without thought. You can feel if your body is tense or not, if you're breathing is shallow or not.
Once you do this can you relieve the tense muscles, take deeper breaths.
This will calm you, and help silence the mind and rid it of polluting compulsive thought.
Find a cozy spot and engage in light 'meditation' by focusing on your inhalations and exhalations as you breathe deeply.
If the incessant thoughts come back, just return your attention to the physical sensations of breathing, or to the beauty of nature around you.
Or you can engage a 'mindless' task as a meditation. Clean up around the house, focus on doing it right, let it require no active thought.
What people today call 'yoga' is the warm-up for actual yoga. Engaging the body in such ways to ultimately quiet the mind-stuff. So consider doing 'yoga' stretches (you probably need it from sitting at eq) and then, the body primed, engage in meditation.
Perhaps this can be of help.
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