Mind your stereotypes

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Hey there!

Time feels like it has slowed down recently. What a gift!

I tend to feel this way when I am present in life’s activity more-so than in my mind’s activity.

Which… is confusing me as I write this.

It’s a known thing that we’re supposed to pursue presence. It’s good for the mind, right?

It’s like presence (or attentiveness, or meditation) is healing for the brain.

And a healthy brain (mine at least) wants to create or work on something. But once I get going, I want/need to keep going. In turn, I use up my brain’s reserves until it’s burned out again.

What does it say about me that I can’t imagine having a healthy mind for the sake of having a healthy mind?

But rather that the point of a healthy mind is to be able to create with it.

Does everyone think this way? Or is it part of being creative?

These two things (restoring and consuming mental—health? Energy?) hang in a balance. But in my experience, they never actually balance out. They just keep pulling each other up and down over the fulcrum.

I know I’ve written something like this before in Rekindle. Maybe more than once.