Each of us is blessed with the enormous gift of intellect.  And most of us have experienced this talent of thinking as an occasional curse.  When we have various experiences, our minds create categories; this is good, this is bad, this doesn’t work, I am wrong, he is wrong, and so forth.  It is easy to get stuck in the story and caught on a frustrating track.   Do our heads really solve problems or just keep us up at night and cause us unnecessary stress?  Life challenges are inevitable but how we engage or disengage in the mind is a choice.

So how can we let go of our thoughts and open to what the experience is?  What happens if we pay attention to our perceptions as information, not truth?  And what happens when we dive into the thought a little deeper and notice what is behind it.  Instead of locking in on ‘Oh he is wrong,’ what if we open it up.  ‘What if he is right?  Or what if we are both right?  Or what if right doesn’t even exist?’  Thinking deserves to be examined.  But even further than trying to figure it out, what if we just let go and find quiet.  Maybe not thinking can actually be the source of solutions.