Out of your mind, into your body

Our minds are incredible tools, but they are horrible leaders. We listen to the chatter in our minds like it's fact. Instead, we need to view it all as suggestions. We listen to everything it says, even it if it contradicts itself in a split second.

One of my favorite books is "The Untethered Soul", and it teaches you to view your mind chatter as an anxious, risk-averse roommate always trying to keep you safe. They have your best interest in mind, or at least they think you do, but if you ended up listening to everything they told you, you'd probably end up never leaving the apartment because it's "safer". This is what happens when we become depressed or paralyzed by fear, we don't want to do anything but sulk in our feelings, eat take-out, and watch The Office for the 9th time through.

This isn't a David Goggins, "fuck your feelings" motivational speech to stay hard and fuck your depression. We're human, we are going to experience bad days. The problem is when we let them turn into bad weeks or months or even years. We must remind ourselves that these feelings we're experiencing are normal, and better yet, they actually trying to help us. Emotions are the language of the body, so how do we communicate with these emotions to ask them what they're trying to help us with? The breath. The breath is the portal between the thinking mind and the feeling body. When we focus on our breath, we're forced to stop listening to our mind makeup stories about the emotions we're feeling and just pay attention to the breath. I don't care what anyone tells you, but there's no such thing as multitasking. There's only rapid task switching.

So when we pay attention to our breath, we are politely asking our talkative roommate for a moment of peace. They might even keep talking for a while and throwing out suggestions for you to think about, but it's important to keep asking them nicely for a moment to yourself no matter how many times they keep knocking on your door. They will understand and you will be better off for it.

This is what coming into your body looks like; paying attention to your breath, noticing where in your body your breath is going towards or getting stuck, and then to continuing to rest into your body and the sensations coming up. These sensations will tell you things, things you need to address in your life, things you've been holding back or covering up for a while, or even things that you need to start going toward and taking action on.

God works in mysterious ways. We all have god working inside us because we are all god incarnated in human form. Rest into the fact that your heart beats without conscious thought and your lungs breath to keep you alive even when you're sleeping. Rest into the beautiful energy of life itself and see what it has for you in this moment. This is getting out of our heads and into our hearts.