Mindfulness: I Have So Much On My Mind

Lately I’ve been very busy. Busy building a business, maintaining two jobs, spending time with family, spending time with friends and staying on top of my responsibilities. One thing that I notice when I become this busy is that my mind tends to race a lot. I become concerned about what I have to do next all of the time. I also become concerned with whether or not I handled certain situations correctly or incorrectly. I wake up in the morning and my mind immediately starts to recollect what I have to get done that day. When this happens I know that even though I may or may not be in a good place in my life, I am not in a peaceful place. One thing that I learned a couple of years ago is that when we spend our time thinking about what has happened it can cause depression over things we cannot change. When we spend our time thinking about what will happen in the future it can cause anxiety over what will happen. I found my most peaceful time was when I spent most of it staying in the present. Staying in the present simply means focusing on and enjoying what is going on at the moment. I heard hip hop mogul Russell Simmons say that when we get in a zone or when something happens to us like we get in a car accident or we see something happen that captures all of our attention that things can appear to go in slow motion, but they don’t. The slow motion time is the speed things actually happen around us, it’s just that in that moment our brain is so focused on that one thing that our brains slow down to that speed keeping us present and in that moment.  What do you do when you find your thoughts are constantly racing? How do you slow down your thoughts? Do you feel the need to?