Vata active mind runs in high Vatas and imbalanced Vatas.
The mind overruns when we want to be done with our thoughts and the turmoil emotions that anxious, stressed, or worry thoughts can create in the mind-body connection.
This article is about how to deal with a Vata active mind that isn’t serving us.
When we’re confronted with ingested stress turmoil, we want to run from our mind especially when our ego dials up high fear trying to protect us from the world and our repeated hurt past experiences that have semblances in our current situation.
It’s not that severe, but our minds can overreact if we allow it to.
Because the ego serves us repeated warnings that can grow into anxiousness from our fearful thoughts.
The problem grows and can fester when our fear and associated negative thoughts have no where to go unless we successfully get them to take a hike and that satisfies our mind… or we get the feelings from I got this!
Otherwise we ride the trapped ego wave with our evolved human heads spinning in a brain fog cloud until exacerbated ego goes away or some other message distraction comes along to switch up what’s important.
We want to change our channel that can stubbornly stick around on its own.
The default is: we allow our ego to build drama in our lives until we exercise our right to put away the anxious thoughts.
We don’t have to delay our balance for more than a day or more than a few moments. We can practice shutting down our ego and getting better at our practice.
I didn’t start off as the poster child for this as I let repeated thoughts get to me.
But these days I recognize the offender right away and shut it down as soon as humanly possible.
You and I get to celebrate progress in us! 🤸🏻
The progress motivation can be as simple as wanting to enjoy life as much as possible.
We can do this if we know how to recognize and change the thought trajectory when an anxious triggering thought arises from a triggered situation or trauma.
Getting rid of a Vata active mind means having a new way with your new or current situation to get away from anxious thoughts and worry.
Developed fear or insecurity could have come from a past trauma situation, thoughts, or memories.
We can start practicing getting rid of unwanted emotions stirred up by an Vata active mind.
This is how it can go in a typical scenario…
A day can go by where we’re busy and caught up with those nagging thoughts as an under current theme.
We can delay doing something about it until the next day where we’ve confirmed we lost sleep because of the active mind in Vata.
We stayed up way too late in anxious-worry thoughts that’s now confirmed as stuck in our body’s energy.
So now we’re paying for it the day after feeling tired and bad in some way.
We want to get rest and sleep. We know that’s the formula to a healthy life that we want and productivity for our day.
And if we’re healthy, we can be more happy. If we’re happy, we do more in our lives that fuels more happiness. Plus, happy people live longer.
So ridding of an over active mind vs. calm mind isn’t just about feeling rested and better. It’s a protocol for a healthy well-being lifestyle.
It’s easy for us to tell others to not worry or be anxious. But when we’re confronted with our situations, we’re intimately wrapped up with our mind, the emotions, and thought implications of what if the worse happens?
This can show up in all kinds of other ego feeling-defeated flavors.
In those cases, one way I know that works is to have a backup plan so that the best happens coming from Plan A and you don’t have to resort to any backups.
Just having a backup plan shuts the ego down. (Remember: I got this!)
The best time to handle this is right now in this moment.
The tip again is coming up with a backup plan that satisfies you.
It’s not what you’re actually planning to do.
But things do happen in life, that you and your ego know from the past experiences and history that you have no control over.
So having a Plan B in your mind puts you and your (ego) mind at ease at the moment, as not putting more energy into worry, what-if, and other time sucking thoughts.
And in the rare instance that the situation outcome you don’t want to happen actually happens, you have a trampoline to fall on (your Plan B).
If you do this mental exercise for your Vata active mind, this puts your mind at rest.
And when you rest a Vata active mind, then you feel calm and can get on with your day.
You can enjoy the next moments instead of leaving worry on the table to be seen again later on in your thoughts without any real life evidence you need to be alarmed.
There’s no reason to be anxious or worried about anything not alarming, as it solves nothing and is unproductive.
Breaking this down: once you know what the anxious thought is about and determine it’s not clear and present danger, you can move into active mind management, such as having a mental Plan B.
The second thing you can do is have a specific mantra that becomes your outlook.
When anxious thoughts loom, you can refer to a mantra like: I know tomorrow will be better. It always is.
How can you convince you and your ego that’s true?
You have so many examples in the past of that truth. Find a supporting example in your past where the worry you had didn’t pan out, and you actually turned it into something better now that you have hindsight.
Remind your mind.
Because there’s 3 of you on your team: you, your mind, and your body.
When you have positive belief and conviction like “it always is” you’ve defeated ego because there’s no debating “always” in ego language. It’s like calling ego out.
That was ego’s ploy to turn “always” into a negative position such as it’s always going to be like this or it always will be raining.
But you’ve turned the always statement upside down on its head to a positive thought and belief that shuts ego up.
That’s how you fairly head wrestle with ego.
And, here’s how you can practice this:
Let’s use the weekend or your work days off as an example since you have more control over what you get to do or think on those days.
Say, today is Saturday and you’re stuck indoors with lousy weather and you had planned to relax today.
You didn’t sleep well because of anxious thoughts circling from the week before, so all that compounds and adds to your feeling deflated or defeated in some way in your day even though it’s your day off.
This isn’t how you wanted to spend part of your day.
But you can’t plan your thoughts and feelings in advance. What you can do now is prepare your better thoughts and feelings for tomorrow with these steps:
Start re-setting today. Think and repeat: tomorrow will be a new day.
Go to bed earlier tonight so you can get a good’s night rest (as you didn’t sleep well the previous night).
Plus, going to bed early keeps you from scrolling on your devices, overeating and overdrinking, and watching shows that make you feel bad or worse the next day.
So to recap: you’re productively going to bed early and you anticipate a better day tomorrow. And the next day (or Sunday), you wake up better rested compared to the lousy night you had before or on Friday.
That’s because you put a good intention the day and night before.
On Sunday, you’ve reset yourself and your thoughts. And hopefully you got more sleep.
You keep the mantra running in your mind: it’s a brand new day.
You have a new chance to feel productive and happy.
Plus, our minds loves to compare. And fresh-in-mind-memory was that yesterday wasn’t so great. Yesterday is over. So this new day is victory in comparison. 🎉
You could enjoy a cup of tea in peace and that makes you feel much better than turmoil yesterday.
Keep focusing on re-centering yourself in the moment.
The anxious fears of yesterday are put in the dust. Re-focus on your built-up love intentions today.
When the clouds lift, celebrate with singing, dancing, humming or whatever fancies you so you create a new recent happy memory.
Bring out more of the happy, creative person within you. Remove and lower unfocused Vata tendencies.
That’s the happy balance in life that we can reset daily.
Keep doing this even if it takes a few days. Sometimes we need more than a night. The more you practice, the shorter the time becomes to bounce back.
You can choose to get out of self-pity, feeling anxious. or sad in a healthy and graceful way faster.
We can shorten the duration of regurgitating thoughts that don’t serve us. We can put them to bed after we realize they serve no helpful purpose and rob us of time and energy.
Robbing can show up as depressed moods, procrastination, self-loathing, blaming others, self-pity, etc.
I spent way too many seasons feeling self-pity. Especially if my seasons didn’t measure up comparing myself to culture’s standards, those around me, and the high-elated feelings on the flesh level.
Those created my next season lows in the hangover effect when they didn’t measure up.
I had the wrong set of wants that weren’t aligned with what would actually make me happy… me.
People, accomplishments, or things were crutches. It was me that could make me happy.
And it’s you that can make you happy.
If that doesn’t resonate now, know it’s now in your system to digest.
Welcome in your curiosity and questions that wonder about this idea. Maybe you wrestle with this a while. But by processing this, one day, you may find yourself happy with authentic you and who you’ve become that started with practicing quieting a Vata active mind.
Baking in a healthy and happy dessert like a berry cheesecake can start your daily happy.
