Affirmation Walking
“Mindfulness” never worked for me, so I leveraged this technique to gain control over my thoughts at a time when I felt I had very little.
At the start of my self-development journey, I felt I had little control over my thoughts.
I had always heard that quieting your mind had its benefits.
I knew that having a calm, quiet mind gave you more focus and made you more centered, could reduce fearfulness and anxiety.
But it seemed so far out of reach that I wrote it off as something I could never have.
I always felt like those people must not have had as much to think about as I did.
In some ways, I thought that all my mental activity somehow made me more intelligent than people who weren’t analyzing and re-analyzing… and analyzing how much they analyzed… like I was.
But in reality, it was not intelligent at all.
Most of it was a waste of time and energy, forcing me to glimpse life from a distance, through heavy filters of negative interpretations and expectations.
Allowing my mind to run wild came at the expense of not being able to experience life in the present moment.
