To be honest, I did it but I was unable to do it every day. It is just so hard in this busy world to take a break. This week I want to encourage you to continue to try to find peace, but I want you to expand your idea of what that looks like.
When you settled down to find peace, did you find that a million thoughts went rushing through your head? That's what happened to me. I thought about my to do list, the fight that I had with my husband, the Christmas shopping that I wanted to get a jump start on, and what was going to be on TV that night. I thought about so many things that sometimes it was hard to find any peace at all.
This week I want you to continue to take a break but this time I want you to practice eliminating all of the distractions that race through your mind through a technique called Quiet Mind.
Here is how you do it:
- Find a safe quiet place to rest your mind
- Allow all the thoughts that clutter your mind to come racing through
- Reject each thought one by one until your mind is in a clear, quiet place
- Chose to refocus on one thought
Before you enter Quiet Mind, choose the one thought that you want to focus on. You could focus on a task at work, a relationship, or just focus on being at peace. Whatever you do, force yourself to stay focused on that one thing for at least a minute or two, rejecting all other thoughts that creep back into your thoughts. Once you are finished with your "break" get back to whatever you need to do with a sense of peace and clarity.
Quiet Mind is a tool that you can use at any time to allow yourself to become focused on the task at hand. If you need to focus on work, go to Quiet Mind, focus on what you need to accomplish at work, and then get back to work. When you get home from work, take a moment to go to a quiet mind before you enter the house so that you can leave work behind and focus on time with your family.
Give Quiet Mind a try. I think you will find that it will help you in all that you do.
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