The Busy Mind

3am again and the mind literally has “a mind of its own.”  For years, a few hours of restless sleep followed by a thinking mind at 3am – why always the same cycle?

Sound familiar?

It seemed to never stop.  The idea of being still was so foreign, it was a nice goal for those monks and other deeply spiritual folk, but who has time to sit still and even if there were a moment of stillness – this thing inside me was always thinking, no “It” was always obsessing over everything without end.

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