What is Monkey Minded

                                                     

                                      Monkey Minded

Ever since we heard the word monkey mind what goes on everyone's mind is like some sort of monkeys chattering and moving around your mind. But it is the situation where you are not able to take the proper decisions in life.

According to the Buddhist terminology, it is the state where the mind is restless, unsettled, scared and not able to take the proper decisions.
As we all know that our mind is the biggest ocean of thoughts. It happens generally when we are dealing with more stress and other many more anxious feelings. We are not able to control some sort of arising thoughts and we land up into the anonymous troubles in daily life. In some cases due to overthinking we ruin our life.

In our daily life we are using this phrases for someone like " Body present and mind absent". During meetings, conversations, class and training sessions. This kind of anxiety feeling we always have. By this, our path is always get deviated by anxiety. You can't able to conclude the proper decisions for your life. We have gone through the failures that can be turned to success in any moment by some changes but sort of excess thinking we are not able to that.

Every person who is suffering from monkey minded kind of thinking have lots of doubts, and even they also can't solve the problems after getting good suggestions and mentors and people call them mad. At last, they have to spend their life on their own. They break away from every bond in life

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Daniel B.Smith is an American journalist and author of the 2012 memoir Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety. This books tells about his own story, you can also go through his personal interviews given to The Meme Gergees Show, and many more.

  Monks told that the only way to control our monkey mind is to meditate. It helps you to control your mind and you can develop new ideas.

Taming(controlling) your monkey mind will do all of the following for you:

• It will give you clarity of mind.
• It will allow you to focus on the present and on the task at hand.
• It will improve the quality of your sleep.
• It will increase your sense of calm and of well-being.
• It will make you happier.

So, let’s get to it! Below you’ll discover 10 ways to tame your monkey mind and stop the mental chatter

 1. You should know that your monkey mind can be tamed(controlled)

2. Talk to your monkey mind. (by meditation)

3. Establishing a journaling practice.

4. Meditate

5. Practice ABC technique(where A is"activating event", B is for "beliefs",C is for "consequences")

6. Stop assigning meaning.

7. Recite a mantra

8. Play a give of five (game which takes helps of  five senses)

9. Engage your mind

10. Kapalbhati(Kapalabhati, also called breath of fire, is an important Shatkarma, a purification in hatha yoga. The word kapalabhati is made up of two Sanskrit words: Kapal meaning 'skull', and bhati meaning 'shining, illuminating)

Or you can read the books to tame your monkey mind. You can easily find these books online there are many websites provides the books and ebooks on this topic.

Conclusion:

 Although calming your mind will take some practice, it can be done.