Stopping the chatter
September 16, 2009
I did a mentoring session with a client to find a way for her to appreciate every moment.
Her initial complaint was that she wanted to stop her mind chatter. I came up with a few steps to help her achieve that.
1. You physically stop what you are doing and you tell yourself that you are stopping.
2. You decide what’s important in this moment. Get the sense of choosing what’s important … what is now … what is the priority for you.
3. You consciously change the place where you are thinking from.
Historically, the default setting for our thinking has been to see everything in personal terms. That we are separate from each other, living our own version of what life is about. In that world view everything has to conform to certain lines of thought. Your communications are confined to you and dare not be shared.
The new place of thinking is expansive, timeless, appreciative, all-encompassing and awesome. It’s more natural. It’s the place that is concerned with allowing you/us to really connect and to enjoy our connectiveness.
It’s not about rushing around trying to achieve things, trying to get things done for the sake of it, or allowing yourself to be distracted by non-important stuff. It’s about allowing everything to drop away that is no longer important and to communicate only what is important right now.
You change the place where you think from by taking the time to explore and learn what is important to you. Taking the time to feel the joy of every moment. That helps you to be more alive, more present, and more sustaining. It increases your depth of vision (inner and outer) because you actually discover things that you were too busy to notice before – and you have the time now to explore with your senses.
Perhaps the most wonderful thing to discover is that all of life is talking to you. As you become more conscious of that then your consciousness reaches out to everything and engages with it – and the mind chatter miraculously stops!