dailydatewithgod

It is easy to get caught up in what we are thinking and doing.  Our mind is nonstop chatter with ideas and opinions about everything from the color of the sky to the outfit someone is wearing.  We can choose which of those thoughts to adhere to.  Sometimes our minds go into a loop and we cannot seem to let go of a particular thought or idea.  It seems to keep coming around as though it is haunting us.  The way I have found to deal with such thoughts is to bring them to my heart.  When I pause, take a breath, and connect with my heart, I can look from a different angle.  A moment of breath provides the opportunity to stop and question what is behind the thought that keeps looping through my mind.  What is it that is adhering to this thought?  What might this thought be trying to communicate to me?  Our thoughts are sometimes like children which just keep repeating themselves in a desire to be heard.  We push them away or discount them, not realizing they are actually asking us to adhere to our hearts. We could view the looping as annoying and pointless and sometimes it may be, but what if each incident of looping was an opportunity to connect deeper and with our hearts?  What if our hearts were able to make effective use of our annoying mind by extending an invitation of adherence to love?