A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax

Author:Ruby Wax
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241972076
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Again, this week, try doing the three-minute mindfulness breathing exercise twice a day.

WEEK FIVE:

Mindfulness of Thought

Just as with emotions, your thoughts can become habit-forming and obsessive. At times, they can be a waste of head space; at other times, they’re a tiny bit useful because they give us poetry, art, literature, language, communication, civilization … to name a few. I’ll keep saying it: when they’re good, they’re very, very good; and when they’re bad they’re evil. Our mission is to pick and choose to use them, and not to have them use us. So it’s back to mindfulness, which is all about shifting the paradigm of your relationship to your thoughts: learning to sit back and choose when to grab a thought and when to let it go.

If you’re observing your thoughts with a clearer, more settled mind, it goes without saying that some gems might arise from the darkness in the form of a great/ funny/ creative/ original thought.

Sometimes when I’m practising mindfulness, a fantastic idea bubbles out of the darkness to the surface and I sit there like an insane person, laughing out loud. As soon as I’m done, I grab a pen to get it down fast before it sinks back into the murk. Mindfulness isn’t about sitting like a dead, frozen fish, you’re there observing your thoughts, and with time it should become easier to discriminate between which thoughts are winners and which are dross to be flushed out on arrival. It’s said that most creative thinking takes place when you’re not striving for it; this is why people have epiphanies in the shower. It’s probably similar for people who pan for gold; suddenly, they notice something sparkling there in the mud. This is how it feels when I occasionally notice a great line lying there in the murk.

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