Minimizing thoughts!

I am in a funk. Yesterday was harder than today. I have read several self help books recently, and I think my brain is a bit overwhelmed. In line with my previous posts, I need to minimize my thoughts! Boy...talk about cleaning out the boxes of my mind!

I tend to think too much, over analyze, and at times over criticize myself. All of it is unnecessary. It is pointless. The past is gone, and the future is unknown no matter how much I plan. I have today. I have this moment. I am touching these keys and words come onto a screen that I can read...amazing. I hear sounds around the house and I feel love around me...incredible! 

Does my mind still race to plan for today? Yes. Do I still think up creative/nutty ideas for a more 'free life'...you betchya! I tend to enjoy future thinking to give me the high of hope...and guess what? That is okay! Somehow it is a balance of my mom's favorite saying "I am who I am" with finding stillness in the moment and just being.

Perhaps my mental minimalist slogan should be "The ego: I am who I am. The being: I am everyone and I am everything." :)