At some point in your day when you’re driving your car, sitting at your desk at work, washing dishes or vacuuming at home, do you ever find yourself deep in thought?

You know those times when you go into automatic pilot or you seem to complete a task subconsciously. What are you thinking about? What is preoccupying your mind?

Our daily interactions and life experiences sometimes make us feel like we’re caught in a whirlwind of thoughts, emotions and reactions.

What effect does that ‘whirlwind’ have on you and your quality of life moment-to-moment, day-to-day, week to week… at home and at work? If you decide that you “want out” of that whirlwind, what could you do to help yourself?

Notice and acknowledge what you’re thinking about and how you feel. Example, are you thinking about a conversation you had with your spouse, a co-worker or an issue that arose in the past? Notice what is going on in your mind.

• Are you reviewing, replaying and analyzing, making assumptions, drawing conclusions…? 
• How is it making you feel emotionally? 
• Hurt?
• Disappointed?
• Disrespected?
• Angry?
• Annoyed?
• Anxious?

What is happening to you physically? Are you tensing, do you feel your blood pressure rising, are you moving faster and throwing things around, breathing fast or are you frozen? Acknowledge how you’re feeling.

Now, ask yourself how much control you have over the situation you’re thinking about and also, what you’re choosing to think. If you were to let go of the things you can’t control, how would you feel?

• Who is in control of your thoughts?
• How do you want to feel?
• What parts of what you’re thinking about do you have control over?
• What do you want to do about it?
• What’s the next step you want to take?

If it’s true that your thoughts create your reality, ask yourself, what do you want your reality to look like? How is what you’re thinking conducive to what you want?

Another thing that you can do when your mind gets caught in a whirlwind and you “want out”, is find something that makes you smile. It gives you an immediate “feel good feeling” and may sometimes give you just enough of a break from your thoughts that changes how you feel and see things.

On that note, what would you get if you crossed a comedian and a spiritualist? A happy medium

I wish you happy thoughts today and everyday.

~ Lesia