Stilling the mind
What do you do when your mind gets stuck in a track, running round and round in a repetitive, fruitless worrying at something you can do nothing about? It doesn't happen to me often. I don't think of myself as an anxious person at all. I am naturally quite calm and even tempered, cheerful by default, inclined to have a good time whenever I can with family and friends, good company, a glass of wine and good food. So it always surprises me when one of the inevitable anxieties of life somehow gets a hold of me and I find my mind running round and round with it, like a hamster on a wheel. Sometimes gardening helps but it didn't today. I was weeding down in the native tree bed. The mindless, repetitive nature of pulling weeds can be calm and soothing, the sun on my back, almost like a meditation. But today all that mindless repetition just seemed to allow me to run round and round in my mindless nagging worry. I tried all the stuff abou...