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Stop thinking so much

Published 29 May 2005 by Mark Walter | E-mail this post

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One evening a Shinto priest, Hideo Izumoto, was surrounded by a group of Great River students who were respectfully asking questions. One student had been quietly but anxiously waiting her turn. After posing her question, Master Hideo nodded softly and after a brief pause gently said, "You need to stop thinking so much." She smiled quizzically and slowly walked away, thinking about what he had just said.

2 Responses to “Stop thinking so much”

  1. Blogger Shane  on 5/30/2005  

    Hi Mark,

    Just a quick note to thank you for your recent comments on my Blog.

    I've also taken a good look around your site. Very nice indeed! We hold many of the same views and many which differ greatly. Thanks for keeping your blog up-2-date so that I (and others) can continue to benefit from a variety of thoughts and opinion.

    -Shane.

    http://blog.kyokushinbudokai.org/

  2. Blogger Irma  on 6/26/2005  

    It's funny that you bring this up, since I was the student.

    I listened to the words he said, which sounds so simple. But as we all know, it's a very hard thing to do.

    For a person who has a mind that continuously re-thinks things and has a hard time shutting off thinking, the advice that he gave me was the hardest thing - for me - to accomplish. And it still is.

    I find myself putting on headphones to relieve the thoughts that keep flooding in. When my mind is really flying, I put the headphones on. It does help, they don't come in as much with the music.

    When they are off I get these blurts of things that I should do. It's kind of like a blurt of information. I don't know... like something you are supposed to do.

    My oldest son goes through this too. I know other people who xperience this as well. It can make you crazy, because you think so much.

    It's not all good thoughts; they can come in as negative things too. And then I go, I need to change that! So I do. I think an upbeat thought and it disappears. But you have to be careful when it comes in, because it can give you a negative way of thinking. And why do you want to do that? You want to be positive.

    It's hard enough to spin other people's negative thoughts, but try spinning your own negative thoughts to positive.

    It IS hard. My objective is to put a positive spin on negative thought... on anyone's. I'm trying to do that.

    If you can spin your own, then you can do it on others.

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