Do You Get Stuck in Your Own Head, Too?
Sometimes being the only one in your head can be infuriating
Thinky-thoughts can insinuate themselves into a strange place between your conscious and subconscious minds. But it’s a place both right in front of you and hard to reach.
When there are a lot of things happening all at once – both inside and outside of yourself – overwhelm can hit hard and fast. Before you know it, you find yourself flustered and frustrated. Then you start asking negative-leaning questions.
Getting out of your own head can be incredibly challenging. But why?
Your head is like a buried treasure chest
How? Because you have items stored in your “treasure chest” that have been lost, forgotten, and buried for who-knows-how-long?
Because the mind is made up of both a conscious and subconscious aspect, there are two sometimes opposed possibilities for everything. Any information you get now is subjected to conscious and subconscious thinking.
Mindfulness is active conscious awareness
Mindfulness is active use of conscious awareness. That’s because mindfulness involves questioning your inner mindset/headspace/psyche self.
It’s simple questions such as,
· What am I thinking?
· What am I feeling?
· How am I feeling?
· What do I intend here?
· What am I doing?
Each of the above questions can only be answered here, and now. That’s an active act of conscious awareness. And that’s what mindfulness is.
Your own head isn’t just your headspace
When you find yourself stuck in your own head, that often involves more than your subconscious and conscious mind.
Thinky-thoughts aren’t always thoughts. They can also be impressions made from the body and soul.
Work on being here now
When it comes to getting out of your head – or doing anything to take control of your life – being here, now, is necessary.
The best way to do this is via active conscious awareness. Mindfulness.
Getting out of your own head is never a one-and-done process. That’s because thought, feeling, and all else change due to circumstances, happenstance, choices, environment, and tons of other factors.
This week’s Applied Guidance for Mindfulness Tool:
This week’s tool might look familiar. Before you start the steps to use this tool, find and/or create 5 minutes for yourself, alone, in a safe and comfortable space. Make sure you have a timer and some means for writing, digital or otherwise.
Step 1: For 2 minutes, practice deep breathing to calm and center yourself.
Step 2: After that, ask yourself, aloud, the following questions (and write them down):
· What am I thinking?
· What am I feeling?
· How am I feeling?
· What do I intend here?
Step 3: Once you have made yourself mindful, is there something that’s been nagging at you or otherwise bothering you? Now that you’re actively, consciously aware, can you identify what it is?
Step 4: Write it down. Then, write down what it will take to release and free yourself from this.
Step 5: Take another minute of deep breathing to recenter yourself.
This can evoke an odd state of being because you’re going into your head to work with something you’ve been having a difficult time working with. Don’t allow negative feelings about this to dominate – forgive yourself for being human.
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