How to Quickly Calm a Restless, Racing Mind

HJ: Sometimes it feels like our mind has a life and mind of its own and has no interest in calming down and playing by our rules despite out best intentions and efforts to get it to do so.  In these moments, it’s helpful to have a set of practices and techniques to help you ‘get things under control’.

The irony is that sometimes it’s that very attempt to control things that is the problem.  Fighting what is happening only perpetuates the frustration.  It is by detaching and practicing mindfulness that we can let go and watch the situation resolve itself…  In this way we paradoxically get things under control once and for all…

- Truth

How to Slow a Racing Mind

By Charles A. Francis | Mindfulness Meditation Institute

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Do you ever find it difficult to slow down your mind? For some of us, a racing mind is a serious problem. When we’re agitated, we have no control over our mind, and it becomes extremely difficult to meditate.

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