Everyone has a mindspace, it’s the world of our thoughts. The thoughts there are impermanent bubbles. They naturally pop up and fade away. That’s the nature of mindspace.
We can enter mindspace anytime. The fading thoughts there, we can do anything we want with them.
We can jump right onto every single one of them as soon as they pop up, give them all our attention.
Or just sit down there, relax and watch, letting loose of the immediate urge to react instanly.
We can just zoom out a bit and watch them pass our view.
Or zoom in and catch some, while letting others fade through us.
We can grab our baseball bat and smash right through bubbles we don’t like. Destroy them.
We can go hunt thoughts that make us feel a certain way, add them to our personal collection.
Sink into our feel-goods.
Keep a blacklist, auto-kill whatever looks similar.
Our minds just produce thoughts. They do this all the time. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. In fact that’s the only state of mind: thoughts coming and going, sometimes more, other times less.
I like to think about it as its own world with its own fundamental rules.
It’s the world that brings up those thoughts, it’s us, who can decide what to do with them.
We don’t have to follow the direction every thought points us in. We can just observe, and react whenever we want to.
Knowing this calms me down.