Quiet Mind

Basic Info for Quiet Mind & When to Use it

Caution with Quiet Mind and Mindfulness and Trauma

Avoid Quiet Mind NeuroMeditations, and practices which include Mindfulness as an element, if you have experienced Trauma and are not ready for what may come up. When this is the case, turn to Focus and Open Heart or Quiet Mind without those elements.

Quiet Mind Neuro-Tools:

*BE = Brain Exercises

The flow of Quiet Mind NeuroMeditations vary for each route below. However, the common thread, is about the self getting smaller, or sound quieter until there is silence, or the absence of things.
All Quiet Mind NeuroMeditations begin with a focus target that gradually softens, quiets that attention and shifts to an expansive attention where the self is small.
This is a style of NeuroMeditation, in particular, where FORCE will yield the opposite of what you want. The key here is surrender, allowing, letting go.
Focusing on the vastness or spaciousness of any vista, view, or thing that is vast and spacious like the ocean or space.
Focus on the empty spaces between things . You can do this with anything - the space between the walls, the space between your hands, the emptiness in the middle of a circle. Play with this and see if you find a way your brain engages with.
Focus on the feeling of suspension. Feel your bed holding all of your weight. Explore various imagery around suspension.
Combine various approaches.
- - An example: Picture yourself in space suspended in an expansive "net" connecting the stars and holding you like a hammock or stretched net. Focus on the distance betweens stars and planets around you while FEELING the suspension in the body. This allows for the feeling of RELEASE and fully relaxing tension in the body.

Quiet the Mind for Sleep

This NeuroMeditation uses space imagery to quiet the mind for sleep. Using both the darkness between all things in space and its vast neverending expansiveness.

Music: 8 Hour Hans Zimmer Time Cover by Cozy Sleep Sounds on YouTube

NeuroMeditation: Quiet the Mind for Sleep

BE - Quiet the Mind for Sleep

Quieting the Amygdala and Your Nervous System with Quiet Mind Practices

Many different issues involve over stimulation, activation or reaction by the amygdala. It is doing its job to protect us, but can get stuck and become too hyper responsive or even debilitating; if in a continual and long term state of activation. Use Quiet Mind Neuro-Tools & NeuroMeditations to bring the choppy waters of the mind and the stystem into the ventral vagal, calm, stillness and quiet.

When the Mind is Racing or You Feel 'Activated'/in Hyper or Hypo States of Arousal - Interrupt the Amygdala FIRST!

Molly's Dancing the Cingulate

Use this practice to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This practice is my personal adaptation of the 'Dancing on the Cingulate' protocol developed by the NeuroMeditation Institute.

Music: Limitless Focus - 40 Hz by Study Sonic Focus on YouTube

NeuroMeditation: Molly's Dancing the Cingulate

BE: Molly's Dancing the Cingulate

Choosing the RIGHT Focus tool for YOU is critical here. Explore the various routes/ways of focusing and find the right fit for YOUR brain. The strength of the ability to hold attention on something, is directly related to the power of its efficacy to interrupt the amygdala. This is why it MUST be something YOUR brain really likes to focus on.

Learn More About Ways to FOCUS

Increasing feelings of safety can lend to quietting the system down

Creating YOUR Version of the Cave of Safety

What is SAFETY Really?

The Cave of Safety

The system responds and can return to calm when you send it messages of safety. This practice increases feelings of inner safety, and is helpful when you need a buffer from the world, a deep sense of safety, unconditional love and support, or when you are doing difficult work.

Music: Safe and Loved by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube

NeuroMeditation: The Cave of Safety

BE - The Cave of Safety

Explore SAFETY in More Depth

SAFETY

Using AWE to Quiet the Mind

Connecting with AWE

Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.

Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube

NeuroMeditation: Connecting with AWE

BE: Connecting with AWE

Quieting through the Vagus Nerve & Nervous System

Learn more about the Vagus Nerve & the nervous system to begin to develop awareness of, connection with and ability to shift state.

The Vagus Nerve & Nervous System

Using Water to Quiet the Mind

My mom helped me get an inflatable hot tub, which made such a difference in reducing or soothing the deep body tension I held. It was the ONLY place I felt I could actually truly LET GO and surrender the intense tightness in my back. I would bend my knees and float; focusing on my back, spine, neck, jaw, cheeks, eyes, scalp... everything. Breathing and keeping attention on the feeling of SUSPENSION. It was, and continues to be, one of the few places I feel relief from tension in my body.

I like meditating while floating, as well as, while sitting and focusing either on some aspect of nature around me (birds, clouds, branches, leaves, all plants.. everything), or doing a gentle hand movement in the water and focusing on the movement and the waves/patterns created.

The hot tub I have cost about $500. Your monthly power bill will be higher but it works out to about $2 a day (lower/higher in warmer/colder months). So worth it. Yes you have to buy chemicals to keep your water balanced so that it is safe (especially over time). Filters, are also a cost, but it is truly not that much. If you are soothed by warm water will be worth it.

They are SUCH a helpful and therapeutic tool!

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