Quieting the Mind

It is so much easier to write little snippets here than it is to work on my book. I find every distraction in the world to stop me from making progress. Actually, that's the problem with the world today. There are SO many distractions - constant media bombardment, options for entertainment, cell phones, handheld email devices. We are always ON and available. It makes it extremely difficult to quiet the mind.

I have been trying to quiet my mind by mediating 30 minutes each morning and evening. I am not doing so well. In the past week I think I have been able to do for about 15 minutes at most and usually just once a day. I am in a constant state of frenzy. Even when I sit down and try to quiet my mind. A million little thoughts run across my tele-prompter. I try to make them go away and it just leads me down another thought path.

I think that's why blogging is so popular these days, it makes a place to store all of the random thoughts from the tele-prompter. Be still my mind.