racetrack mind
in situ setting for ‘transitions (passageways #6)’
Thank you for joining me here in this week's quiet little conversation...a place to reconnect with your center, to slow down, to welcome and encourage feelings of peace and serenity.
Have you ever experienced your brain getting amped up? The way it goes into a hyper problem solving state and then it’s hard to slow it down? When this happens to me, I think of it as racetrack mind and I find it helpful to use breathing techniques to restore calm in the brain and body.
Some yoga teachers and others teach the idea of letting the breath breathe you. It's a beautiful context shift to move from taking the breath, to the context of receiving the breath. The idea is to release the control of taking the breath, and allow the body to fall in to a natural pattern of receiving the breath. It's a simple yet powerfull way to easily shift out of the frenzied mind pattern.
The painting shown above is one of my favourites reminding me to allow the body to be breathed.
Below is a photo for you of the beach at Tin Wis to support you in the practice of being breathed (Tin Wis means calm waters and is located on the territories of the Tla-o-qui-aht)
And as always, I want to express my gratitude to be living and working on the ancestral & unceded territories of the hən̓̓qəmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples.I honour the incredible depths of grace, courage and perseverance of Indigenous Peoples.
until next time,
Mardell