Huh? What's that?
I never heard of it before today when my boss told me. I was relaying to him how tired I was because last night when I was trying to sleep, I was obsessively worrying about something in my life that is causing me a lot of stress. It was driving me nuts trying to stop thinking about it, but I finally fell asleep from exhaustion.
My boss said, "That's Monkey Mind!" And he started telling me about Buddhists and Yoga and Monkey Mind (sometimes Monkey Brain).
I did a little searching on it and had a hard time finding much about it, but I found this interesting blog about 'Monkey Brain'. And how being like that can be a detriment to your brain! Well, doh, but it means physically detrimental.
Hmmmmm.
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No matter which form of meditation one practices, we all have experienced monkey mind. We sit down with the intention of focusing on the breath, or an image, or a mantra, and soon our mind is composing shopping lists, enumerating the ways we were slighted during the day, planning a vacation, or whatever else might arise. Yet the purpose of meditation is to learn to focus the mind, to get the monkey in its cage.
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We all like to believe we are free and at the same time we are aware that all too easily, it's our thoughts that also restrict our freedom.
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http://yourbrainonyoga.blogspot.com/
http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2006/3016.html
http://nomonkeymind.com/
No wonder I like the meditation CD I have from that wonderful lady in Colorado that I've raved about. I sent a copy to BMW and she likes it too.
Meditation sure is hard with a monkey mind.
Right, Curious?????
