"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."
~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~
Some days it's exhausting just to be in the company of our own thoughts. All of our combined doubts, judgments, fears, and self-consciousness can be completely overwhelming. This is the "busy mind" state. We are obsessive and at work mentally- never at rest.
Conversely, having a quiet mind is relaxing and peaceful. We are appreciative and aware of all that is good, and we are happy simply to be. The need to knaw at our problems leaves us and we are at ease and serene.
And sometimes we can shift ourselves from the first mindset to the second through breathing and meditation, and sometimes we simply cannot. In the latter case, we just have to wait for time to shift us, which, happily, it always does.
I deeply appreciate my mind when it is not obsessively thinking and fixating, and I can be compassionate with myself when it is.
