Everybody has so many thoughts, right? Actually our brain is wired to think on several different levels all at the same time. When you think about it, you're often considering things that are very mundane. You know, “I need to stop at the store today on my way home,” you're thinking about what you have to do for work. You're thinking about loved ones, friends—what social plans are for the weekend. You're thinking about “how do I get through my class? I don't know how to study this.” Whatever you're doing.

And then on top of that, you're often thinking about, you know, world events, things that are happening in the country, around the world, things that are difficult, things you agree with and disagree with.

And all of that very often happens at the same time. And what any form of meditation does for you is that it helps you to begin to let go of those thoughts. It's not that we're trying to suppress thought or repress ideas or feelings, or anything like that. In fact, you have to acknowledge whatever it is that is going through your mind. But then you have to let go of it. If you don't do that acknowledgement part, you're not gonna have a good “sit” as it were.

I want to encourage you strongly, the more you think your brain never shuts off, the better this practice is for you. Again, our spiritual guides at Contemplative Underground can help you with that. Maybe even more important than that, our community of people who are gathered together on Contemplative Underground, all struggling with the same thing, but trying to get themselves to listen more deeply to that quiet little murmur in your heart that is the love of God spreading out into the world.