mind chanting

[fruity]

woke up not long back and my mind as been constant like mind chanting is it called? my mind keeps going over and over. not bads things but dknow realy. its ok at the moment. scared me a bit though.

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i only got 5hrs sleep last night. i was up watching movies. maybe something to do with it?

[hanshan]

I don't know about the sleep, but I have had times when I have a tune (usually something really awful) going over and over in my head in the half-hour or so after I wake up.

Generally, I don't do anything about it as it eventually goes away, but putting on some music, a radio or tv in the background may help.

[Soulcatcher71]

When you are in a completely relaxed state you'll find that your mind is either empty, or light feeling, with almost wispy, cloudlike thoughts fleeting across it.

The more you move from the relaxed state, towards a state of hyper-tension, the more our thoughts become fixated, and less easy to dismiss.

I've found that when I'm going through an anxious phase in my life, that as soon as I wake up, my mind jumps into the hyper-tension style of thinking almost as a matter of habit. This gradually subsides.

[fruity]

Thank you both. It did subside.

[SarahH]

I call this "shit FM"!!! I wake up with it sometimes. When I do I immediately start "Mindfulness" techniques which direct the mind away from mind chatter.

Sarah