Silencing The Chatter
Taming Monkey Mind In Meditation

It's been called the monkey mind - the endless chattering in your head as you jump in your mind from thought to thought while you daydream, analyze your relationships, or worry over the future. Eventually, you start to feel like your thoughts are spinning in circles and you're left totally confused......(there's more to the article about meditation..but it is very lengthly)

I've been experiencing "the monkey mind" lately. I'm having a personal crisis and it really does cause a lot of endless chattering in my head. I am sure that it has been affecting my sleep patterns, fatigue and my appetite. I have come to the conclusion that I have to take control of the chatter.

I will not let what is going on with me define me as a person. I am no longer going to worry about other's reactions. I am going to address my responses as each change occurs and then detach from it and move on. I'm not going to whine and I am not going to *****. There are situations, in all of our lives, that involve change and questions.....I have to access and decide which changes and questions that I can or cannot deal with. Sometimes, I'll have to make adjustments in my ideas of what I can do and what I can do. The trivial stuff is going to have to fall by the wayside.

I've had two good counseling sessions with two different women. I know what I have to do. I am moving and I think that is going to help. No geographical cures but I think it will help a lot.

There are no magical "cures" for any of our problems. Whether we are dealing with our children, our pets or something that is really serious. I'm sucking it up and I thank you for your caring and your listening abilities. Having an online family really, really rocks! But not more than Van Morrison, Charles Barkley, William Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, J.J. Cale, Willie and Waylon, All My Children , having my own darkroom again, (at last)coconut cream pie, (during crisis management)becoming a bonafide Texan and going back to my "hippy/willie/ways".......

Just kidding about the rocking!! xoxo Pat