Monday Musings: For When Your Mind Is Glitching
My mind has been all over the place recently because of some changes in my life and I'm having trouble keeping track of where I am. Obviously I know where my body is physically, but I feel like I'm in a constant state of flux where I can't just sit down and think. Too much stimuli is coming at me and I don’t have enough time to process everything. I play tennis, I go to the gym, but this just stops my mind from running for the time being.
Luckily I came across this post on Substack, and I found it so helpful I thought of sharing it here too. It goes:
Best mental reset I’ve learned:
If your mind is loud — Write.
If your mind is empty — Read.
If your mind is racing — Walk.
If your mind is tired — Sleep.
If your mind is sharp — Build.
Most problems are just mismatched energy. Get the inputs right, the rest follows.
This is such a useful cheat sheet! I definitely haven’t been as writing as much as I used to, not even in my journal. Writing takes too much time and energy, I tell myself, and for what? Just so I can listen to myself yet again? I’m sick of hearing myself think! But you know what, I’ve never once regretted writing anything down. Something about it is calming, and draining in a good way. You know when you’re exhausted after an intense work out, but in the process you’ve ironed through some stiff places in your body? It’s similar. Writing irons out the knots in my head.
I have been reading a lot lately though, I like that books can keep me company when I feel empty. I usually read through audiobooks so I can do that even when I’m washing the dishes or sewing something. I just finished The Wedding People by Alison Espach and I loved it. This quote somehow stuck with me:
“There are some people in this world who remind you of exactly how you like to speak. She hasn’t met a person like this in a long time, not since she met her husband, which was why it was so painful when she started to forget how to speak to her husband. When she looked at him, she was too often reminded of what not to say, what never to mention, like ovulation, or depression, or anything that might carry a hint of sadness.
I hope this never happens to me, ever. But the most striking part of the quote is the first line because yes, there are people in this world that you speak to in the way that you like to speak and be spoken to. Do you know what I mean? It’s just easy. You’re not trying to be interesting, but they’re interested. I think it’s beautiful and quite rare.
I walk three kilometers a day, easy, so I have that covered. I’ve been having trouble sleeping though so I’m working on that! I am working on building something too so that’s a going concern.
Anyway, that’s it for today’s ramble.
