When our mind won't stop churning ...

 

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If you watch a waterwheel as it turns, each step is covered in spray, and when it dips into the river again, it is still wet.  Our mind is like that when we can’t stop thinking about something.  It keeps turning the problem or argument over and over, watered by the stream of negative thought.

To become free of the perpetual motion we need to raise the waterwheel of our mind clear of the torrent, for it is only the spate of the river which has kept it churning until we feel we will never be rid of it.

It may be hard, not to say impossible at times, to control our repetitive thoughts.  "Thoughts occupy time and space and … if space is not created, no added light can enter,"~ Christine Morgan. 

But White Chestnut can help.  It lifts our mental wheel so that it can stop revolving.  In the silence that follows, there is a new space. Calmness and light flow in, restoring our peace.