Everyday Practices
Step Back From the Story
For Seeing Thoughts as Thoughts
Welcome. These practices are here for the moments a thought starts to feel like the truth. Start with whichever one speaks to you, and use the shorter versions when time is tight. Tap play to listen, or download any track to keep.
The Chessboard
For when you’re caught in a battle with your own thoughts. You picture a chessboard, with positive thoughts on one side and negative ones on the other. Every positive move brings a negative one straight back, so the battle can’t be won. So what if you were the board, holding every piece without taking a side? Then a letter to your mind, and the affirmation ‘I am the chessboard. I’m calm and I’m wide.’ The shorter versions are the letter and affirmation, or the chessboard and affirmation, on their own.
11 min · fullDownload
The Conveyor Belt of the Mind
For when the thoughts just keep coming. You picture a long, busy conveyor belt of thoughts heading towards you, each one in a box labelled helpful or unhelpful. Most of them say unhelpful, and that’s part of being human. Instead of grabbing every box or pushing it away, you watch the belt run and pick up the helpful ones. Then a letter to your mind, and the affirmation ‘I am the watcher observing in peace.’ The shorter version leaves out the letter.
11 min · fullDownload
I Don’t Mind My Mind
For when your mind tells you it’s just you. This is a spoken reflection in the first person. It begins with the mind saying everyone else ‘seems to have it all okay’, and answers it: all humans mind. It brings in the old saying that the mind is an amazing servant and a terrible master, then moves towards noticing thoughts as thoughts and choosing to give energy to the helpful ones. The micro version keeps the opening and the servant and master idea, and ends on ‘thoughts as thoughts’.
5 min · fullDownload
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