Do you overthink everything like I do?

[_Blixa]

Ok. Just remember you thought Sex in the City Samantha was too old...

[_Bond...James Bond]

Ok. Just remember you thought Sex in the City Samantha was too old...

I was talking about doing sit ups or pushups or something.....what'd you think I was talking about? ;)

[_truth dancer]

Hey Bond...

Jason seems to share a trait with me.....we ponder and nitpick stuff. We try to figure out things. Are you like this?

Not me!

Never once has anyone told me I think too much.

I don't analyze, ponder, contemplate, or come up with theories.

I do not obsess with a topic until I'm dizzy.

I am not curious at all which is why I never think.

I'm easily satisfied with any answer.

And, I never wonder about anything at all.

Sorry I can't help you!

:-)

Seriously... yoga and meditation is what gets me though life! I have learned to quiet my mind, find stillness, and enter into the silence! Fabulous soothing music, soft candles, the fountain in my pond, working in my garden, my inside table fountain are also helpful! ;-)

~dancer~

[_Bond...James Bond]

Seriously... yoga and meditation is what gets me though life! I have learned to quiet my mind, find stillness, and enter into the silence! Fabulous soothing music, soft candles, the fountain in my pond, working in my garden, my inside table fountain are also helpful! ;-)

~dancer~

That's what it is....I need to work on my Crouching Assassin and my Lame Duckling (I don't know if those are yoga positions or not, but they all have weird names like that). I've actually tried yoga, and I find it more painful than relaxing (and I find that meditating is always interrupted by my thinking).

[_Sam Harris]

Recently Jason B. relayed a message from his daughter who said "You think too much!".

Jason seems to share a trait with me.....we ponder and nitpick stuff. We try to figure out things. Are you like this?

I sure as heck am......I've pondered and nitpicked myself outta organized religion, and I seem to be pondering and thinking myself into a state of doubt in everything. Are you like this?

Do you chew things over in your mind until everything is gone, including your saliva? I sure as heck am.....I get a bee in my bonnet about something and ponder it to death. To paraphrase Jason Bourne's daughter: I think too much! Are you like this?

Anyone got any ideas on how to stop being like this?

I used to be like that until I got into a situation that thinking couldn't get me out of. My mind couldn't heal my body, and my mind couldn't see my way out of the situation I was in as far as my work situation, life, etc. I finally got tired and got still. And I see things coming right again, but I'm not the one making things right. I feel that to be God's doing. Even when people mean to do me harm, things turn out for good. Example: get fired from one job, only to spend all of 24-hours unemployed. You find out that the place you left has so many problems, it's a good thing you left, and the place you were sent to is a place very familiar to you in a good way.

I used to think a lot, and my brother said that to me too, that I thought too much. I think I stressed myself into that stroke I had, and the clot's still on my brain. But I'm more at peace now, because I'm determined to be so, and I sleep better, I have less pain (well, so long as the MDs leave me alone), and I feel like I can move forward with my life.

I do not know what I would do with myself if I were to nitpick away my faith. I have nothing else in life but that and my integrity....outside of the judgemental passersby, that is.

Bond, you have to get tired enough of your status quo to want to be still in your circumstances, my friend.

[_truth dancer]

Hi Bond,

That's what it is....I need to work on my Crouching Assassin and my Lame Duckling

LOL!

I've actually tried yoga, and I find it more painful than relaxing (and I find that meditating is always interrupted by my thinking).

Meditation takes practice... it is not easy to still the mind! :-)

And, if yoga has been painful then it is not yoga! ;-) Seriously, it should never be painful. Unless one is doing power yoga (which is fabulous by the way), yoga is more about letting go, releasing, giving in than it is about working, pushing, etc. etc.

Maybe you need a different teacher? :-)

~dancer~

[_Jersey Girl]

Bond would you consider yourself an introvert?

[_Bond...James Bond]

Bond would you consider yourself an introvert?

Yes....when I'm not talking to people in real life ;P

Yeah, I have a slight tendency to be withdrawn and passive in real life (I know it's hard to believe given my online persona).

[_Bond...James Bond]

And, if yoga has been painful then it is not yoga! ;-) Seriously, it should never be painful. Unless one is doing power yoga (which is fabulous by the way), yoga is more about letting go, releasing, giving in than it is about working, pushing, etc. etc.

Maybe you need a different teacher? :-)

~dancer~

Well when are you going to reach Godhood and start teaching a yoga class? It's just not the same with Scratch teaching it.

:P

But seriously I'm trying to get better at meditation. It's a work in progress.

[_Jersey Girl]

Bond would you consider yourself an introvert?

Yes....when I'm not talking to people in real life ;P

Yeah, I have a slight tendency to be withdrawn and passive in real life (I know it's hard to believe given my online persona).

Uh, I think you need to study up on introversion. I'm an introvert and there's no person on the face of the planet that'd describe me as "passive". Have you ever taken a Myers Briggs?