Snow Globe Thoughts
Inhale then exhale.
You’re holding a snow globe. You peer inside. Mini snowflakes draw your attention. You pick up the globe and shake. You shake hard and fast to watch the snowflakes fly. The more you shake the more they fly, rebounding off the glass to eventually hover. Satisfied with the rhythm of flow you pause, to watch the flakes float towards the bottom of the globe. Once you place the globe back on a stable surface the flakes lay still on the bottom.
Our minds are much like a snow globe, a mystical sphere filled with millions of snow flake thoughts each unique, each with the power to capture your attention. When we are drawn in by our thoughts we engage with them. We pick up the globe and shake it around, the snow flakes fly through our minds, rebounding and circling again, the more we focus on the flakes, and engage with our thoughts the more the fly. When we take a moment to step back from our thoughts they begin to hover. Observing our thoughts without judgment, questions or comments is like placing the snow globe on a stable surface. In doing so, we gift our thoughts time to quiet down, time to slowly fall to the bottom of our mind, where they rest.
When your thoughts are too much, put down the globe. Allow yourself a moment to experience your thoughts as thoughts - not facts or predictions. Simply thoughts existing only within you. Thoughts that when placed on a stable surface, exist peacefully within the confines of your mind.
Just for a moment, imagine you are the stable surface. Just for a moment, use your breath to calm your body. Just for a moment, give your nervous system permission to embody safety. Once your feel safe your mind will drop out of fight or flight and you will notice your anxious thinking patterns decrease and or quiet down.
A steady, consistent and half paced breath stabilises the body who then soothes the mind so you can choose to distance yourself from it.
Just for a moment. That way you have time to make a choice about how you want to respond. Allowing you a moment to engage with your present from a place inspired by values rather than prompted by reaction.
Put down the globe and give yourself a moment of peace and quiet. Regardless of your situation, thoughts, stress or your feelings you deserve many moments of peace. A gift only you can give to yourself.