Sometimes, the mind is like an overheated machine that just won’t shut down.
Even when the night is deep and the body is exhausted, your mind keeps spinning—thoughts about tomorrow’s meeting, your child’s grades, or the uncertainty of the future. keep running.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche saysteaches that anxiety is not a mistake—it’s is simply a natural reaction of the mind.
The real issue is notn’t whether we feel anxiousanxiety arises, but whether we are aware that we’re anxious of it.
Meditation invites us to do something simple yet powerful: to pause, and notice our experience in the presentfeel our breath in this moment. There’s no need to fight the thoughts; just gently return to the present, and stay with each breath.
When you do this, anxiety might not vanish immediately, but you’ll realize—
you are no longer the one being dragged around by thoughts; you become the one quietly observing. Rinpoche says, “"The sky doesn’t run with the clouds. Awareness itself is freedom.”"
So, when your mind won’t stop,
don’t blame yourself, and don’t force yourself to be calmstillness. Just stay with yourSimply accompany yourself with each breath, and your heart will slowly find its way home.