ALLOW THE MONKEY TO SIT IN YOUR LAP
For me a core part of well-being and living a happy life is attaining a calm mind through the practice of mindfulness.
When I was learning how to reach a state of mindfulness and bring loving awareness to my thoughts, I was taught how ‘to let the monkey sit in your lap’. This is a great metaphor and really works for me…
Think of your negative thoughts as monkeys and your life as a long trapeze wire. The monkeys are running and swinging along the wire – into the future and back into the past.
If left alone they could easily get out of control and constantly annoy you. For days, weeks, months, even years!
By working through these negative thoughts, anxieties, fears using the RAIN method… Recognise they are there; Allow them to be there; Investigating them; and Nurturing them, the monkeys will jump down and rest in your lap, in the present.
They are no longer annoying you. You have understood them and befriended them. Released them.
My book, Walking Back To Happiness: The Secret To Alcohol-Free Living & Well-Being and my coaching course Reroot Yourself shows how you can massively improve your mental and physical well-being, through re-connecting with the natural world, walking outdoors, watching sunrises, forest bathing and being more mindful about the changes in nature that are happening all around you.
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