Heavy thoughts interfere with work, make it difficult to have pleasant communication, steal a good mood from you, and prevent you from living happily. It is quite possible to master thoughts. Moreover, if you do it regularly, then no thoughts can dominate you, life will become more beautiful and happier.
Instructions
Step 1
Bear in mind that it is impossible to stop thoughts. Directing them in the other direction is also not an option, since they will still return to the source of concern. You can calm them down by chatting with friends, watching an interesting movie or loud music, but there is a better way. The most humane method of calming thoughts is meditation. A technique that humanity has known for hundreds of thousands of years.
Step 2
You can meditate in the forest, by the fire, on the bus, at home, and even in the office. Watching a live fire, river flow, sunset or sunrise will noticeably calm your thoughts. Sometimes it takes only 15-20 minutes. This is visual meditation.
Step 3
To calm very difficult thoughts, try meditating in silence with your eyes closed. Ask loved ones not to bother you for about an hour, remove sources of sounds: phones, laptops, iPods. Sit in a comfortable position with the lights off or in the dim light. Close your eyes and take a deep breath.
Step 4
Continue to breathe in and out, watching them steadily. Before long, you will notice how thoughts begin to come to you. Do not try to stop or extinguish them. On the contrary, watch how the thought came and then disappeared. Let them be, let them come and go like white clouds flying past you.
Step 5
It may not be so easy for you to focus on your breathing all the time in the beginning, but you will get used to it with practice. If you have gone for a thought and distracted from meditation, do not reproach yourself for it. Move your gaze to the breath and keep watching.
Step 6
Once you've learned to watch your breath, try watching what happens in the moment between thoughts. Here a thought has come, here it is, here it is leaving. Then there are a few moments before the next thought comes. Watch them. Once you're good at it, you will find this practice very interesting.
