{"id":150658,"date":"2023-07-08T20:56:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T00:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/?p=150658"},"modified":"2023-07-08T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T17:14:48","slug":"how-do-you-stop-the-minds-chatter-sadhguru-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150658","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Stop the Mind’s Chatter? – Sadhguru"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How Do You Stop the Mind&#039;s Chatter? - Sadhguru\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LNyJgNjCDuU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nQuestioner: Sadhguru, I wanted to know that when we are silent, still we feel that mind chattering, which always bothers us. And our thought always shifts back to past and future imaginations, which will not be any of the output. How to get rid of it? Sadhguru: There’s a whole lot of thought about this thoughtlessness. Thoughtlessness, no mind, these kinds of terms have been propagated all over the place, and these terms have been badly misunderstood and made into all kinds of things, and people are striving “how to stop my mind.” It took millions of years of evolution to get a mind of this kind of capability.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHmm? Isn\u2019t it? Millions of years of the tremendous amount of nature\u2019s work that today you have a mind of this kind of scope. And now, you want to stop it. [Chuckles] Why is it that you want to stop it? If your mind was constantly producing absolute pleasantness for you, would you think about how to stop this mind? Would you? No. It’s producing a lot of unpleasantness, and that\u2019s why you\u2019re thinking of how to stop the mind. This is the first thing, wherever you go in the world, this has gone so much into people\u2019s minds; if you tell them, “You meditate,” they say, “But Sadhguru, I’m not able to stop my mind.” I said, “That will happen only after you stop your kidneys, liver, heart…\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n[Laughter] If you stop all these things, then the mind will also stop. Do you want it to stop?” “No.” Then why do you want the mind to stop? Why do you have such a horrible prejudice against the mind? You don\u2019t mind if your heart is beating, you can meditate. You don\u2019t mind if your liver is working, you can meditate. Your kidneys are functioning, you can meditate. If your brain functions, you can’t meditate. What is the problem? You seem to have something against intelligence, isn’t it? [Laughs] This is the conspiracy of the stupid against human intelligence, that to meditate means your brain must be frozen. No. You don\u2019t have to freeze your brain. We were looking at this yesterday itself. We will initiate you into Shambhavi \u2013 it’s a simple process. There are many ways to do it, this is one simple way, but it’s a powerful process. If you sit here, you will see, your body is here, your mind is somewhere, and who you are is somewhere else.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nOnce there is space between you and the mind, then what the mind is not doing, what the mind is doing, is not even an issue. It is like you\u2019re stuck in a traffic jam; you know, you\u2019re struggling through the traffic \u2013 that\u2019s one experience. Suppose you are either standing on Chamundi Hill, or you are floating in a hot air balloon, and looking down at all the traffic. Very peacefully, “Traffic.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/6963054\/pexels-photo-6963054.jpeg?auto=compress&amp;cs=tinysrgb&amp;h=650&amp;w=940\" \/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nHmm…” [Laughter] Why? Because of distance, isn’t it? When you\u2019re in it, traffic is a different experience. From really high up there, sitting in a hot air balloon, you look down, and you can’t even hear the sounds, looks wonderful traffic, isn’t it? Yes, or no? Participants: Yes. Sadhguru: Because there\u2019s a distance. So, once there\u2019s a distance between you and your mind\u2019s activity, the mind is not a problem \u2013 the mind is a miracle, it is not a problem. And anyway, if thoughts are going continuously, if you\u2019re having mental diarrhea, [Laughter] you ate some bad food, isn’t it? Yes? If you\u2019re having physical diarrhea, you ate some bad food, isn’t it? If you\u2019re having mental diarrhea, you consumed something wrong. What this wrong thing could be is, the moment you identify yourself with something that you’re not, then you\u2019re finished \u2013 your mind is a continuous run. There is no other way. Do what you want, and try as hard as you want, it is not going to stop.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIf you do not identify yourself with anything that you are not, you know how to be with everything, you know how to use everything, but you\u2019re not identified with it, then you will see, if you sit here, simply, the mind will be like this; [Gestures] if you want to use it you can use it, otherwise, it\u2019ll be like this. Right now your hands are like this; oh, you\u2019re holding it tied up because it\u2019ll go all over, is it? No, you can keep it like this. You can keep it like this, you can keep it like this. [Gestures] When you want to use it, you can use it. So, it’s a useful instrument. Suppose your hands become like this. [Gestures] You know, some people have become like this? Yes, or no? [Gestures] If it becomes like this, you will become ridiculous, isn’t it? If it happens to your mind, also you\u2019re equally ridiculous. It is just that you are living in the comfort that nobody else can see it.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nBut people can see it; if they watch you closely enough, they can see it, isn’t it? And whether they can see it or not, that\u2019s not the point; the point is, the most important faculty of your life is out of control. It doesn\u2019t matter whether they can see it or not, that\u2019s not the issue; the issue is, the most important faculty in your life is out of control, doing its rubbish all the time, not doing what you want it to do. So, if you have to be freed from this ailment, you should stop eating bad food. Wrong food, or bad food means, you are identifying yourself with things that you’re not. If you sit here, if you’re not identified with this, and with this, [Gestures] then you will see, everything is just fine. Then your mind will do what you want it to do; otherwise, it\u2019ll simply hang there, and that\u2019s how it should be. The mind should not be telling its own stories all the time; it should tell the story that you want it to tell, isn’t it? Otherwise, it’s quite a nuisance.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LNyJgNjCDuU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As found on YouTube<\/a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.4brain.hop.clickbank.net\/\">Brain Booster | Blue Heron Health News<\/a> \u21dd I was losing my memory, focus \u2013 and mind! And then\u2026 I got it all back again. Case study: Brian Thompson There\u2019s nothing more terrifying than watching your brain health fail. You can feel it\u2026 but you can\u2019t stop it. Over and over I asked myself, where is this going to end? What am I going to end up like? And nobody could tell me. Doesn\u2019t matter now. I\u2019m over it. Completely well. This is how I did it!\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flywait.4brain.hop.clickbank.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ibb.co\/zNwJx2Q\/OIP-73.jpg\" alt=\"OIP-73\" width=\"237\" height=\"237\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Questioner: Sadhguru, I wanted to know that when we are silent, still we feel that mind chattering, which always bothers us. And our thought always shifts back to past and future imaginations, which will not be any of the output. How to get rid of it? Sadhguru: There’s a whole lot of thought about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/150658\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Do You Stop the Mind’s Chatter? – Sadhguru<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":150657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[169,409,446],"tags":[52822,40553,38497,52815,43750,1857,52816,52817,43744,43751,43756,43749,1861,43755,519,52821,36672,52823,36670,52819,52818,43752,43753,43745,43754,34651,52824,52820,34172],"class_list":["post-150658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-health","category-parents","tag-apr-2011","tag-enlightenment","tag-guru","tag-how-to-control-your-mind","tag-how-to-do-yoga","tag-how-to-meditate","tag-how-to-stop-mind","tag-how-to-stop-mind-chatter","tag-isha-foundation","tag-learn-meditation","tag-learn-to-meditate","tag-learn-yoga","tag-meditation","tag-meditation-for-health","tag-mind","tag-mysore","tag-mysticism","tag-no-mind","tag-sadhguru-person","tag-shambavi-mahamudra","tag-shambhavi-mahamudra","tag-spiritual-advice","tag-spiritual-journey","tag-spiritual-path","tag-spiritual-teacher","tag-spirituality","tag-thoughtlessness","tag-volunteers-meet","tag-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/htmlF_IMG_64a95da554a50.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150712,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150658\/revisions\/150712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}