The mind that goes a hundred miles per minute

I often hear people saying they struggle with meditation because of their “never ending thoughts” or “their mind that won’t stop racing”. In my decade of experience with meditating and a few years of being a facilitator and teacher, this is normal and a crucial step in the breakthrough of your practice. I often guide my students or clients to not stop themselves from thinking, but to create space instead. To let it all unfurl while becoming an observer of those thoughts or images and all of that comes with it with little to no attachment for that moment being. To separate from the attachment that you hold in regards to your physical body, thoughts, and etc., and allowing yourself to surrender to the greater experience. And if there is attachment to it all, to become aware of that itself and to create space for it by surrendering to your breath and innate wisdom. If you find yourself having a lot of that fogginess or thoughts going rapidly, resistance or blockages, you may want to ease your process by clearing your channel and third-eye with my simple “going home meditation” — a simple meditation technique that allows you to retreat home within yourself. In that space of observing and breathing, you create space so you can just be, you can observe, and let come forward what needs to come forward, process what needs to be processed without adding any extra journeying or stimuli. If you want to journey and have deeper and greater experiences, you have to work on becoming a clearer channel so that you can really surrender to the experience. Therefore, before being able to surrender and reach cosmic consciousness, to be in the eternal now, or to travel to the upper world or lower world and have those different types of in and out of the body experiences, you have to practice on grounding and becoming a clear channel. That is done only by creating space and making space for yourself. As a whole. Including your shadow. Then the more you make and create space for yourself to be, the less your ego, thoughts, emotions, and old unseen wounds try to come out in different distorted ways simply wanting to be validated.

I highly encourage you to have compassion for yourself and to remind yourself that meditation is a practice and to my strong belief the best investment you can make in yourself.