I am having some inner battle or maybe even few of them since couple weeks already. It keeps me busy and doesn't allow to get some university related tasks done nor enjoy time of not doing them. Every thought seems to be locked away from me. And I am not able to find the right key to unchain it. So, they keep banging against their cages and making unbearable noise in my head. It makes me deaf from inside and outside leaving me paralysed and wishing only one - to be a fish in the sea.
Yesterday during or in between one of the battles I found an answer that I am going to practice deliberately. I am going to stop this hard thinking and will switch to the soft thinking (terms taken from chapter of G.Claxton book 'Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning'.) .
I am going to follow Rudyard Kipling suggestion : ' When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift; wait; obey.'
I am giving my serried monsters freedom to dive in the waters of mind and swim freely like a fish :)
Please, share your experiences and strategies how you deal with your inner voices and feeling of being overloaded.
Reference
Claxton G (1999). Wise Up: The Challenge of Lifelong Learning. N.Y.: Bloomsbury
Available online from> http://site.ebrary.com/lib/coventry/docDetail.action?docID=10250934
Good luck with that Nora! :)
ReplyDeleteGoing back to one of your references. This quote was taken from Guy Claxton's 'Hare brain, Tortoise mind'. The French mathematician Henri Poincare has said that waiting is the most important skill in order to receive what you have been waiting for:
ReplyDeleteOften when one works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, longer or shorter, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half – hour, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind… (1997)
I relate it to Your saying about dealing with feeling of being overloaded. Everybody goes through this stage. It is not the end of the world. And in my case, I would say that lately I choose to wait till it is over than fullfill my brain with thinking how to deal with it. Sometimes patience is a key! :)
Thank you for sharing and inspirational quote. I am taking it on board and going for second attempt on my dissertation. Good luck for your work too!
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