Just Thinking, Sweetie: Working With Busy Mind

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of 'busy mind' during meditation and offers techniques to calm the mind and body.

Often during our meditation practice, we encounter a state known as "busy mind," which is when there's a kind of ongoing flow of anxious or repetitive mental chatter that tends to keep us locked in the realm of the past or the future, and therefore, mostly distracted from the reality of the present moment, or … the life we're actually living. This talk explores how this particular mind state is created, and how we can use our mediation practice to mindfully observe and slow down the flow of thoughts, and in turn calm both the mind and body. It includes a meditation at the end.

Topics covered

• busy mind
• meditation
• mindfulness
• mental health

Keywords

• anxiety
• repetitive thoughts
• present moment
• meditation practice

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