Because our mind is exhausted. We are stuck in our minds all the time due to our habitual tendency of always being engaged in some form of mental activity or other. Even when we are not actually studying or working or interacting with others in the world around us. Our mind is always tired due to this constant activity. We don’t even know how to find out when our mind is tired because mental tiredness is different from physical tiredness. In such a situation, additionally telling ourselves something or trying to motivate ourselves everyday is actually ineffective.
I choose to step out of my thinking mind and be with my body awareness. My thinking mind is resting quietly and my Aware mind is alert, awake and aware of the aliveness in my body as a felt sensation in real time not as a thought. This state of being is deeply rejuvenating and healing. My mind returns back to fresh energetic aliveness and my body heals. I find myself with a high level of motivation and drive when this happens.
Read the following article to find out if you are mentally tired and also to find out how to rest the mind.
Selvan Srinivasan · 1y
Are you mentally tired or not?
I think the question probably is – “Are you always mentally tired or not?” I used to be always mentally tired probably for almost twenty years up until five years ago. And I realise that it was mental exhaustion only now after learning to rest my mind and going through an unbelievable life transformation as a result of that. When we are professionally engaged with our work, our mind is busy with mental activity which includes planning, working, calculating, computing, watching something (videos) listening to something (such as podcasts), reading, studying, focusing, concentrating, paying attention, etc. When we relax from doing any of the above work, we take rest by keeping our mind busy with other mental activity. These include the monologues in our mind with ourselves, the dialogues we carry out mentally with an imaginary person, the voices of others in our mind telling us what not to do, memories of past events, worries about the future, fantasising, imagining, dreaming, etc. We are habituated to this and so it seems to be happening effortlessly and automatically, although we are doing it. We don’t know how to stop it. This leads to mental tiredness and eventually to perennial mental exhaustion. Sleep doesn’t seem to rest our mind completely probably because we continue our mental activity in the form of restless dreams. In my opinion, based on my personal life experience of completely healing myself and several others from supposedly incurable illness, mental exhaustion is the root cause for all the chronic lifestyle disease afflicting humanity in modern times. I have written extensively about how to find out if we are mentally tired and how to completely rest our mind to allow our bodies to heal holistically. You can find all these information and free tools such as videos for physical movements and audios for guided meditation in my website to help release the mental restlessness and enjoy wholesome rest. This will help you experience active, energetic life all the time instead of feeling tired all the time.
Read the following article to find out a few simple practices that we can add to our daily routine to keep our mind positive and highly motivated all the time.
Humanity “THE BEST RELIGION” · November 20, 2022
How can we train our minds to be Positive?
The greatest positive attitude is the attitude of gratitude. The core nature of our mind is that of gratitude. As little babies, all of us were always in our place of joy and gratitude within. Our home within is our happy place and the energy of gratitude is available in limitless quantities there. We have simply got lost and forgotten our way back home to the grounded place within us. How did we get lost and where did we get lost? We got lost in our thinking mind by getting engaged with the non-stop mental activity in it. The following article explains this. Is it normal to experience uncontrollable self-talk ? Simply pause for a minute and practice with the following experiment and see how you feel. What are some breathing exercises for beginners who struggle with focusing on their breath while meditating? What is gratitude and how to return back to our natural state of gratitude is explained in the following article. After reading this, I suggest a sitting practice of gratitude meditation with the guided meditation audio link shared below. Selvans Guided Meditation – Opening the flow of Gratitude: Selvans Guided Meditation – Opening the flow of Gratitude For learning energy movements and other guided meditation resources please explore my website linked below.