For so long the thing that freighted so many creative people in the world is the fear of a blank mind aka “my mind just went blank” event. It’s the fear of us that create that somehow all of our ideas have abandoned us and now we have no idea how to get it back or how to rediscover it. However, for me though, in this world of every present tech and information, I’ve come to a point in my life that for the first time ever, I actually seek a Blank Mind. Yes, I welcome it and have started practicing it. I see the new Nirvana of this age, Peace through a blank mind. A mind that doesn’t sit around trying to work out what I did, what I didn’t do, and what I have to do soon. A mind that doesn’t sort out creative plots and twists in books, movies, and out forms of expression. Yes, for the first time in my life when the moments come where my mind is silent, I finally feel this is the place I want to be more than any other zone I might reach. I just believe that we have way too many options and distractions in our lives these days that our mind and even our soul never has time to recover and rest.
We are at a perpetual stress level that has become our new norm and most don’t even realize it. We now seek to be heighten, stimulated, and pulled in different directions in order to feel useful, creative, and or responsible. Its so bad that it is when there is no chaos in our lives that we feel the most stress because it’s such a alien state of mind or being these days that the mind has become addicted to it and when it doesn’t have this it stresses out. We all need to get back to the time alone where nothing is being thought of, nothing is being figured out, and nothing is being looked into (past or future). Just allow the mind to sit there in a White blank room with no agenda and no plan but to remain blank. And when you do this time seems to slow and you feel you have your moments back instead of looking up after hours have gone bye while you ran through your daily lives on auto pilot seeking the next stress high. And my tool to accomplish this is my IEMs with instrumental chill out music. They help silence everything around me and helps place my mind in a protective bubble. Yours may be different so you are going to have to find that out for yourself what your tool is and use it.
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