Taking A Moment

I forced myself to take ten minutes to think about difficult things, this morning.

On a typical day, I set aside twenty minutes for quiet, undistracted thinking. I let my mind wander and do nothing at all, usually staring at a wall or closing my eyes, occasionally turning on some kind of white noise or natural soundscape, but generally just working with whatever’s already in the aural environment.

The point of this habit, generally, is to allow my mind to untangle itself, to give underlying worrie...