Letting my monkey mind crawlThe “Monkey Mind,” originally a Buddhist term meaning “unsettled/restless,” has really fascinated me as of late. Particularly, I am…
The “Monkey Mind,” originally a Buddhist term meaning “unsettled/restless,” has really fascinated me as of late. Particularly, I am interested in understanding how this instinctive mind lives within all of us. Better yet, I would love to understand how to best tame / train my monkey mind into being a cooperative part of my existence.
It sounds deep and philosophical but I find a lot if quite rational. The idea is simple. We are all animals at our core. In our brains, there is a bit of wild left in us in the form of this “monkey mind.”
For many of us, this monkey mind can take over our lives.
Facebook/Social media broadly abuse this monkey mind into going wild.
Money does the same thing.
Taming it is very challenging and I see it as a continual challenge.
I saw this tweet that I thought was interesting:
Give your monkey brain a pen and paper to write down thoughts and it stops running in loops.
— Muneeb Ali (@muneeb) January 1, 2018
It effectively summarized one of the major reasons I write. Writing is a tool I use to let my monkey mind crawl. I give it space to go out and do it’s thing on a plain canvas.
This exercise, over hundreds and hundreds of days, have proven to be very valuable for me internally.
Originally published at gonen.blog.
By jordangonen on January 2, 2018.
Exported from Medium on February 17, 2018.