Today, I will talk about how to calm your thoughts – those restless ones that never stop searching, doubting, spinning scenarios, and keeping you awake long after your body is begging for rest.
Thoughts can be our allies or noise that drowns out everything else. Sometimes I think that my inner world talks too much – and too often at the same time. The body sits, the heart waits, the soul wants to breathe – but the head is still searching for answers, even where there are none.
That is why I am increasingly drawn to the path of calming. Not as a compulsion, but as an invitation. As if to say to myself: “You don't have to solve everything today.” And then space is created. Air. Silence.
For me, calming my thoughts does not begin with thinking, but with feeling. Sometimes it is enough to go outside, among the trees. Sometimes I wash my face with cold water. Other times, I write down what is bothering me. And often only then do I notice how many thoughts were inside me that weren't even mine. I just picked them up along the way – from people, from memories, from a world that doesn't know how to be quiet.
An article about nine ways to calm restless thoughts helped me a lot. In it, I felt confirmation: that I can give myself permission not to solve everything in my head. I can just be. I can remember that I am a being, not the savior of the whole world. That sometimes the greatest wisdom is to gently observe my thoughts, rather than blindly follow them.
And when I feel too scattered, I return to my body. To my breathing. To touching something real—my hand on my heart, my feet on the ground, my gaze on the sky. And in that moment, I remember: I am not my thoughts. I am something quieter, deeper, and much gentler.
If these thoughts haunt you, don't be afraid of them. You don't need to silence them. Just listen to them as you would listen to a frightened child. And then make space. Gently. Without force. For yourself, in a safe place.
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Hugs,
Eva.
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