We have all heard the expression 'Monkey brain' - in fact it is described as something that I sometimes refer to as 'busy head'. When you have Monkey brain, you can read an entire chapter of a book and when you get to the end, realize you haven't absorbed ANY of it and have to start again. Another example, is listening to the radio while you are in the car for the traffic report, only to glance at the clock and while you have been 'listening' for some time....the traffic report has come and gone and you have to now FOCUS and listen for the NEXT one!
Monkey brain can be really aggravating.
Another 'monkey' that can really get on our case - is 'the monkey on our back'. THIS is having something (or someone!) in your daily life or routine that you might have procrastinated on, something that you are avoiding altogether or just feeling overwhelmed with so many 'somethings/someones' --- that the Monkeys keep piling up and up and up and eventually you are just BOGGED DOWN with Monkeys - and THEY ALL want something from you!!
TODAY, we are making friends with our Monkeys.
TODAY, we are 'Becoming ONE .... with our Zen Monkey'
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Just like everything in life, it is how we PERCEIVE things and situations around us that make the difference.
Today, we can EMBRACE our Monkey brain, our 'busy head' Monkey and realize that our mind is whirring and spinning and otherwise preoccupied to give our Selves a rest! WE want to focus on a book, a traffic report, a report due for work but our mind is asking us to RETREAT. To spend more time daydreaming, thinking about 'nothing', taking a coffee down to the lake, time in meditation, doing yoga or being outside. When we indulge our Self in setting aside some time each day to BALANCE our minds between focused and 'unfocused' on busy life and to-do's......we are allowing our Monkey brain the time it needs to restore and replenish itself. When we set aside this time, our mind is less likely to pull itself away from what we are doing in this moment - when we are working and focusing
we are able to do so and when we have chosen to sit quietly in meditation or to read a book,
we are also able to relax into this time well spent - without being drawn away.
Make friends with you Monkey brain and see Zen monkey emerge!
The same holds true for the Monkeys on our back. One by one, reach around and grab each monkey and stand them in front of you - 'Monkeys reporting for duty!' Ask each of them what they stand for, what task or situation they represent. As they do so, place them in priority sequence. You get to decide this one, how to arrange them that is. You can do this anyway you like but REMEMBER, DO NOT take the easy way out and save all the really difficult ones to the end! This is how you got so many monkeys hanging around in the first place. I generally pick an easy one, then a more difficult/time consuming one etc.
Write each of the tasks down as you decide, #1 then #2 then #3 and so on and when all of the monkeys are accounted for - assign dates and times to each of the points listed. Go ahead and fill in your calendar! THEN STICK TO YOUR CALENDAR!
As you begin, you notice that JUST by making up your calendar, the monkeys are no longer on your back. They are still around you - actually ALL around you, running and playing and busying up the workspace but ... you can breathe again. In all of the 'busy-ness', you set about tackling #1. Easy, done. When you finish, as a reward you look over and see that one of your monkeys has settled into a meditation position and is completely Zen.....this monkey is sending waves of peace to you and also to the other monkeys. You like this and so do the other monkeys! They now want to join the first monkey and start to slow down their 'busy-busy' running around. You now feel more 'in control' of the monkeys and accomplishing the second task, while more time consuming, is easier still. As you complete it, you notice you now have 2 monkeys in meditation, more peace within and around you and as a result feel stronger and more clear about continuing your list.
You have made friends with the Monkeys on your back and before long all of your monkeys will be in meditation! Will more monkeys show up? YES! Of course, but before they have a chance to get on your back, you will see them enter the room and fit them onto your calendar so their 'running around time' will be limited also!
En - JOY making friends with your Monkeys!
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