How Do You Make The Mind Go Quiet?

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Our minds can be a noisy chatterbox from hell. It can keep yapping away and driving us nuts. Is it possible to experience a state of mental silence, the same type of silence we can experience when sitting back in awestruck wonder of a beautiful sunrise? Can we experience the mental stillness of a cool winter morning?

When we’re feeling really stressed out and want to change it, we’re often suggested to sit down and calm our minds and think good thoughts to replace the bad ones. Have a positive outlook. Be an optimist. Look on the bright side.

This can certainly help us replace bad feeling thoughts with good feeling thoughts and change the direction of our life. Absolutely.

However, there are even higher levels of being in the world.

It is possible to experience a lasting sense of inner peace and quietness without having to escape the incessant mind by going to sleep or engaging in various distracting activities.

Is there an effective technique to experience extended periods of mental tranquility?

What does it take to experience a sense of continuous peacefulness within, regardless of what’s happening without?

In order for your mind to quiet, all you have to do, all you ever have to do is to abide, to accept without resistance.

It means to simply allow things to be as they already are.

Completely and totally.

Next time you’re feeling like an emotional wreck, instead of trying to change it or hate the fact that you’re feeling like a miserable wreck, allow yourself to completely and totally experience the experience even though that sounds like the last thing you’d want to do.

What you’ll find is that when you allow your current emotional state to be just as it is, that underneath the emotional turbulence you’ll experience a profound sense of peace, a liberating sense of freedom, and a wide spaciousness around this moment.

Any time you’re not feeling peace, it’s a sign that you’re struggling and not allowing everything be as it is.

This sounds counter-intuitive to the mind, but what you resist persists and what you look at disappears.

As soon as you start to allow things to be just as they are, you’ll start to experience the breathing room around the situation, the peace, the freedom.

What’s awesome is that this sense of peace does NOT depend on the negative emotions actually leaving you or on your external situation actually being fixed. The negative emotions and situation can still be there and still be experienced, but by allowing them to be, you’ll experience a yourself abiding in a greater context that totally allows the emotion to be and without insisting that it leaves.

The cool part is that once you let go of pushing against the negative feelings, you’ll be able to see the situation more clearly and open up to receiving and discovering solutions to your problems that you would have otherwise been too mentally clouded over to realize.

As soon as you allow what is to be as it is, whatever that thing is that was so terrible will actually point right towards your own mental and emotional freedom.

What freedom? Well why not explore the lifestyle of letting go and find out for yourself?