Your Next Thought

Instructions for "Your Next Thought":

• Set a reminder on your phone for several random times during the day.
• When the alarm goes, ask yourself "What my next thought will be?"
• Watch what happens...

This super simple exercise helps you interrupt your thinking patterns and give you control over your mind, even if only briefly.
I heard this while listening to a talk on meditation, and I was blown away by the effect it had. It created a bit of space from the usual clamour of thoughts in my mind, it felt a bit like the sun breaking through cloud on the horizon. When I asked myself "What my next thought will be?", I realised it could be whatever I wanted, I could pick and choose, or just not have any at all!
​Nice to know I don't always have to listen to the negative things my thoughts sometimes tell me! 
Try it for yourself and let me know how you get on. :)

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"When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

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