This is a short post because I’m exhausted. It is Tuesday morning as I write this and I am still utterly exhausted from a long, alcohol fueled weekend.
Whenever I am exhausted and I really, mindfully examine how I am feeling, I always wish I could feel this way all the time. At this point in my life, exhaustion is the only time that my monkey-mind is quite. Rather than having to listen to it chatter away about past regrets and future worries, I am able to sit and be; to exist wholly and completely in the moment. I refer to it as hitting the baseline. On the baseline, there are no longer ups or downs, just a constant state of being.
You know what? Even when I am exhausted and unable to obsess over the past or worry over the future, my life continues just fine. I think this shows the uselessness of regret and worry. Inevitably, I “recover” from the bliss of exhaustion and my monkey-mind fires up again!
Perhaps a fun experiment is for you to get completely exhausted. Pay attention to how you feel. Does your monkey-mind quite? Do you hit the baseline? I would love to know what you experience.
(Art via Heather Gorham)
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