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In the course of a day, a person is said to average between 12,000 and 70,000 thoughts.
That is a range. Even at the lower number, is it possible that all 12,000 thoughts are true?
You do not have to give credence to every thought you have.
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Taming the Monkey Mind: Buddhist Techniques for Emotional Balance
In the bustling theatre of our minds, emotions often play the leading role, swinging from one thought branch to another like a restless monkey. This constant chatter, known as the "Monkey Mind," can disrupt our emotional equilibrium, leading to stress, anxiety, and discontent. Buddhist teachings offer profound insights and techniques to tame this restless mind, fostering emotional balance and inner tranquility. This article delves into the concept of the Monkey Mind within Buddhist spirituality and provides a practical toolkit to help you cultivate emotional balance in your daily life.
Understanding the Monkey Mind in Buddhist Spirituality
The Monkey Mind, or the restless, unsettled state of mind, is a universal experience characterized by constant mental chatter, distractions, and fluctuations of emotions. In Buddhist spirituality, this phenomenon is closely related to the concept of "Samsara," the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth driven by our attachments, desires, and ignorance.
The Monkey Mind thrives on attachment to outcomes, clinging to past regrets, and fearing future uncertainties. It feeds on judgment, comparison, and the endless pursuit of desires, creating a turbulent inner landscape that clouds our judgment and robs us of peace.
Buddhist Techniques for Taming the Monkey Mind
1. Mindfulness Meditation
What it is: Mindfulness meditation involves cultivating awareness of the present moment, observing thoughts, emotions, and sensations without judgment.
How to practice:
Find a quiet space and sit comfortably.
Close your eyes and focus on your breath.
When your mind wanders, gently bring your attention back to your breath, acknowledging the wandering thought without judgment.
Benefits: Mindfulness meditation enhances self-awareness, reduces stress, and cultivates emotional balance by allowing you to observe the Monkey Mind without getting entangled in its chatter.
2. Practicing Non-attachment
What it is: Non-attachment involves letting go of clinging to desires, outcomes, and expectations, embracing impermanence and accepting the transient nature of life.
How to practice:
Reflect on areas where attachment causes emotional turbulence.
Practice letting go by acknowledging impermanence and focusing on the present moment.
Benefits: Non-attachment fosters emotional resilience, reduces suffering caused by attachment, and promotes a more balanced and equanimous state of mind.
3. Loving-kindness Meditation (Metta)
What it is: Metta meditation focuses on cultivating feelings of love, compassion, and kindness towards oneself and others.
How to practice:
Sit comfortably and close your eyes.
Begin by directing loving-kindness towards yourself, silently repeating phrases like "May I be happy, may I be peaceful."
Extend these feelings towards loved ones, acquaintances, and even those with whom you have conflicts.
Benefits: Metta meditation fosters compassion, reduces negative emotions, and strengthens interpersonal connections, promoting emotional balance and harmony.
4. Mindful Breathing
What it is: Mindful breathing involves focusing on the sensations of breathing, anchoring you in the present moment and calming the Monkey Mind.
How to practice:
Throughout the day, pause and focus on your breath.
Notice the sensations of breathing in and out, allowing it to ground you in the present moment.
Benefits: Mindful breathing promotes relaxation, clarity, and emotional balance, helping you navigate through emotional storms with calmness and poise.
5. Cultivating Gratitude
What it is: Gratitude involves recognizing and appreciating the positive aspects of life, fostering contentment and reducing the Monkey Mind's tendency to focus on negativity.
How to practice:
Keep a gratitude journal and write down three things you are grateful for each day.
Reflect on these moments of gratitude, cultivating a mindset of appreciation and abundance.
Benefits: Cultivating gratitude enhances emotional well-being, shifts focus from lack to abundance, and nurtures a positive outlook, reducing the grip of the Monkey Mind on your emotions.
Food For Thought:
Taming the Monkey Mind is a transformative journey towards emotional balance, inner peace, and spiritual growth. By incorporating mindfulness meditation, non-attachment, loving-kindness meditation, mindful breathing, and cultivating gratitude into your daily routine, you can tame the restless chatter of the Monkey Mind, fostering a more balanced, resilient, and harmonious state of mind.
Embrace these Buddhist techniques with an open heart and a curious mind, and watch as they unravel the knots of emotional turmoil, guiding you towards a life of greater serenity, clarity, and emotional balance.
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Monkey Mind
Not a Blogging Sort of Day
This was a Professional Activity Day for schools so my little school bus didn’t have to leave the driveway. It was going to be a productive day for me to catch up on some things, take a deep breath and do some serious thinking about my business.
The reading for my compulsory five-year bus driver exam got done but little else. A look at my budget (or lack of same) put…
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Day 60: The Tide, regulation, well-being
Day 60: The Tide, regulation, well-being
My Biodynamic Meditation this morning started with 7 Bhastrikas, sukhasana, and radiance at my face.
Then, sensing the Tide, mixed with monkey mind, until stillness prevailed.
The Tide seems to be a fundamental part of our well-being.
It’s so close, yet most of us don’t know about it until someone tells us, and even then it takes motivation to deepen our perception and discover it in…
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Meditation and ADHD
1, 2, 3 Let’s do this Day 3.
Start from 100 and count backwards
Look up with your eyes closed
whoa, that feels weird, where is up why can’t I keep looking up
Don’t open your eyes
Oh yea, I am supposed to be counting
100, 99, 98, 97
okay this is going well.. look up
96, 95, that feels so weird to look up
94, 93, look up
that’s a weird blue hand, why am i thinking about blue hands, I wonder if I will go to L.A. my cat is attacking my foot, if you move your foot she will pounce....don’t open eyes
96, 95, oh wait I already did these numbers
95, 94, 93 look up, wow that really feels weird
94, 93, 92, 91, yeah I made it to the end of the 90s today
89, 88 How long have i been here I really need this exercise, my mind is all over the place
92, oh wait, 88, 87,86, 85 doing good I hope my friend is okay. That really is some sad news she told me, i need water, 87, 86, 85, look up
why does that feel so weird?
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A drawing a day thing.
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maybe if i play a ridiculous amount of notes fast enough you wont notice that almost everything im playing in this video is bullshit LOL
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Monkeyland
Oh for far-off monkeyland,
ripe monkeybread on baobabs,
and the wind strums out monkeytunes
from monkeywindow monkeybars.
Monkeyheroes rise and fight
in monkeyfield and monkeysquare,
And monkeysanatoriums
have monkeypatients crying there.
Monkeygirl monkeytaught
masters monkeyalphabet,
evil monkey pounds his thrawn
feet in monkeyprison yet.
Monkeymill is nearly made,
miles of monkeymayonnaise,
winningly unwinnable
winning monkeymind wins praise.
Monkeyking on monkeypole
harangues the crowd in monkeytongue,
monkeyheaven comes to some,
monkeyhell for those undone.
Macaque, gorilla, chimpanzee,
baboon, orangutan, each beast
reads his monkeynewssheet at
the end of each twilight repast.
With monkeysupper memories
the monkeyouthouse rumbles, hums,
monkeyswaddies start to march,
right turn, left turn, shoulder arms-
monkeymilitary fright
reflected in each monkeyface,
with monkeygun in monkeyfist
the monkeys' world the world we face.
SANDOR WEORES
From the Hungarian (trans. Edwin Morgan)
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Me and my monkey
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We students of control addiction quickly come to realize that a monkeytrap is not really a trap at all.
It’s an invitation to trap yourself.
It succeeds because of a part of the human personality I call the inner monkey.
This is the part dominated by monkeymind, the addicted part, the compulsive part.
It’s the part that grabs on and won’t let go.
I once invited my own inner monkey — whom…
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My Biodynamic Meditation this morning started with 7 Bhastrikas, sukhasana, and radiance at my face. Then, sensing the Tide, mixed with monkey mind, until stillness prevailed. The Tide seems to be a fundamental part of our well-being. It’s so close, yet most of us don’t know about it until someone tells us, and even then it takes motivation to perceive it within to discover it in ourselves. There’s no science on it (yet), but it seems clear that something so regular is actually regulating something. It doesn’t work with any particular system of the body, although it seems probable it’s related to the movement of cerebrospinal fluid within the membranes that surround our brains and spinal cords, that moves up and down. In Craniosacral Biodynamics, there are multiple tides. In Biodynamic Meditation, it doesn’t matter which one you perceive. There’s just Tide. Our bodies have many systems: circulatory, digestive, endocrine, lymphatic, nervous, immune, reproductive, skeletal, etc. The Tide touches them all. Can you even imagine the coordination it takes for all these systems to work together harmoniously inside each of our bodies? Perhaps the Tide is the unifier, the coordinator, the director. It seems to be made of life force energy. This is why, when people feel “off”, like their systems are out of whack and well-being is not happening, they come get Craniosacral Biodynamics sessions. After following the motions of the Tide, it settled in my pelvis and did some healing work there. Art by Lucy Campbell, www.lupiart.com. #biodynamicmeditation #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #craniosacral #tide #bhastrika #sukhasana #radianceatmyface #stillness #monkeymind #wellbeing #motivation #perception #discovery #regulation #cerebrospinalfluid #regulation #coordination #harmony #lifeforce #healing (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnHnlqtu2_g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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He makes you dress in lace
act grace
make no mistakes
and then
there is the one
the one
that makes you want to get
high, drunk, drown,
all at once
at the same time
dancing with the devil
waking up, running out
freaking out
dancing with the devil
monkeymind takes me underground
monkeymind takes me underground
basement downstairs
elevator -1, 2, let´s pretend
who cares
drown me
drown me
won’t wait to see
won’t wait to see
went on vaycays
delayed my days
everyday
went on vaycays
delayed my days
everyday
went on vaycays
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