Is Your Mind Running You…or Are You Running Your Mind?

Have you ever felt times when:

Even deciding what to cook for dinner feels like too much
Your to-do list makes your brain feel like mush
You second-guess every decision you make

When you try to figure out what’s next, your mind spins,

Like a hamster endlessly on a running wheel 

Like a ping pong ball smacked back and forth at lighting speed

Like that circle going round and round when the screen freezes

It’s exhausting.

Imagine running a marathon — mile after mile, kilometre after kilometre.

You approach the finish line, but instead of stopping, you keep going (like Forrest Gump)...

…and going

…and going.

That’s what it’s like for our mental body when we think and worry non-stop.

Thoughts are energy.

And when we live in our heads, we drain our bodies dry. Our tank empties out.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

You can refill your tank:
Grounding brings you back into your body.
Breathing nourishes your mental body.
Moving gets you ‘unstuck’ from the overthinking pattern.

Imagine…
Saving your time and energy because decisions come with ease.
Feeling light and confident instead of dazed and confused.
Living in the aliveness that clarity brings.

I can hear the echo of the voice from my early training days – the voice of a short, stern man with a strong Chinese accent,

“Mindfulness, mindfulness, agh…mindEMPTYness…that’s what we need.