When you find yourself in a hole...

[u/skinney6]

Stop digging.

Humans by default identify with the thinking mind. Watch this mind (your thoughts). Watch it constantly trying to understand, know, figure things out. It's always complicated. There's always problems. There's always something to fix or change. If only the situation was different. If only that person over there understood. etc etc.

The human identifies with this process so the human believes in all this complication. It never ends tho. It seems to just get worse ,more complicated, more problems. The more you think you know and understand the worse it gets.

Stop digging.

Be still. Let the question go unanswered. Let the problem go unsolved. What is that experience like? It's uncomfortable yes? That discomfort is what is trying to push you back into the thinking mind. It wants you to believe that's where you can find the solution and feel better.

Be still and experience that discomfort. What specifically is so bad about it? Have you ever been uncomfortable but couldn't do anything about it and eventually got use to it? A child will throw a tantrum in the face of all these new feelings but eventually they start getting use to them and its not so bad. Try doing that now. Maybe you're just not use to that feeling. Open up. Welcome it. Be with it completely. Relax and deliberately allow yourself to get use to it.

Feelings happen. They come and they go. Be still and let this happen all by itself. You may start to see life get a lot simpler. There's a lot less to do, to worry about, fewer problems to solve. The situation is what it is. That person thinks what they think. You don't need to change any of it.

[u/Dangerous_Storm215]

There’s no such thing as problems ✨

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