When you notice your brain is bouncing from one thought to the next, or emotions rise up such as anxiety, fear, anger and overwhelm and … do you notice what you do?
For me, I used to distract myself with entertainment or find solice in smoking, alcohol and icecream. For others it was cleaning house, going on a shopping spree, making soup and donuts!
Numbing our stress is a strategy that most of us can relate to. Yet there is an other approach worth considering. Instead of beating ourselves up, can we let the mind be the mind, and begin to explore the stillness and peace below the surface.
When we become aware of our habitual patterns and behaviors to avoid our feelings, it’s often the first step to find our Middle Ground.
Donna Faulds poem inspires me here:
LET THE MIND BE THE MIND
Let the mind be the mind.
behind its restless activity,
just one layer deeper
is stillness, and beneath
even that, is an ocean
of mystery and truth.
Swim in this eternal sea
until you know yourself
to be infinity, and bring
that knwing back into
your day. Why struggle
to be what you are already?
Let the mind be the mind,
but dont bind yourself
to its limited reality.
Trust your experience of
vastness. Trust the truth
that never loses potency
of disappears in fear.
Let the mind be the mind
and identify not with
thought, but silence.
~ Danna Faulds taken from “Limitless New Poems and Other Writings”
Find Your Middle Ground 
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