A Chance to Relect and Choose – Which do you listen to more?
Your Monkey Mind or Your Core Essence?
In Chapter 2, of Cultivate Contentment: Using Ancient Wisdom to Thrive in Today’s World, I introduce distinctions to have you realize when you are listening to the negative chatter of your Monkey Mind and when you are tuning in to the inner wisdom of your Core Self. This Chapter, Silencing the Monkey Mind, offers ways to get in touch with and silence the chatter of your automatic, babbling mind.
This Chapter contains a multi-faceted meditation strategy for calming the mind and breathing in trust, compassion and peace. First, it guides you to scan thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations, then invites you to release all that you have been holding. This technique has been proven very successful for quieting the Monkey Mind by countless clients I have helped learn to meditate. Below is the Monkey Mind chart excerpted from Chapter 2, included here with the invitation that you compare and contrast the nature of your Monkey Mind and your Core Essence and look into shifting when your Monkey Mind is dominating.
Which do you spend more time focusing on?
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| YOUR MONKEY MIND |
YOUR CORE ESSENCE |
- your ego
- outward-looking
- seeks approval from others
- creates separation (me vs them)
- competes
- likes conflict
- makes judgmental comparisons
- takes everything personally
- reacts, often without thinking
- doubtful, insecure, defensive
- holds blame and resentment
- stresses reasons why not
- contracted, closed
- scarcity perspective
- needs to control things
- grievance oriented
- missing, wanting something
- resists the flow of events
- focuses on the past and future
- scattered attention
- generates suffering
- motto – “Not good enough”
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- your higher self
- inward-looking
- trusts in self-approval
- sees connectedness, oneness
- cooperates
- seeks harmony
- appreciates differences
- witnesses with detachment
- mindful of speech and actions
- confident, secure
- allows and forgives
- sees great possibility
- expanded, open
- abundance consciousness
- accepts things as they are
- solution oriented
- contented and grateful
- trusts the universal flow
- focuses on the present moment
- centered awareness
- cultivates contentment
- motto – “It’s all good”
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Copyright 2009, Johanna Mosca, PhD, Cultivate Contentment: Using Ancient Wisdom to Thrive in Today’s World |
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