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Simple Ways to get Out of Your Head
If you stay up there too long, you could miss your life
You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss
Do you get trapped in your head, replaying old hurts, remembering conversations and arguments and thinking of things you wish you had said?
Do you get trapped in a “trance of unworthiness” as Tara Brach calls it, and recite all the ways you have failed, shaming yourself for being human?
Do you think of worst case scenarios and play them out over and over in your mind, getting worked into a lather of anxiety?
Do you revisit the past and wish it were different?
These are all ways we can get stuck in our heads, enduring a never-ending feedback loop of ways that life, other people and, we ourselves, have disappointed us.
When we get caught up like this it is easy to miss the life that is right in front of us. Often we get so absorbed in our thoughts that we don’t even hear someone talking to us or see that our beloved pet is sitting at our feet waiting for us to pet them.
