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Slowing Down the "Hyperactive" Mind - Simple and Quick Relaxation Technique

 The "hyperactive mind" as Eckhart Tolle puts it, is a mind like mine - inner conversation that consists of meaningless rapid-fire thoughts.

Now how do you slow them down or get rid of them, so you can stay present at attentive to what you're doing?

Well first off, you don't want to be completely zoned-in - that's no better than being completely zoned-out (like me most all the time) - because then you won't know what's going on around you.

So when a kid fly kicks a soccer ball to your head, you'll know why.

You clearly need to balance the two - focused on the task at hand, yet alert enough to slap the soccer ball away over the neighbors fence, so that brat of a kid knows his place.

What Eckhart recommends is to calm the mind by "spacing the thoughts". He suggests you divert from your diarrhetic thoughts - and your level of concentration instantly increases, you relax and become apt to communicate with yourself through clearer perception.

So what happens when you deter from your thoughts? You direct it into the "liveliness of the body". Huh?

I mentioned in an earlier post the layman's-termed version - you quiet your drifting mind, focus on the present and something (like a thought, image, action) that instantly relaxes you.

Even doing this for five seconds helps.


 

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