So here is the new banner for my blog ...

Ah! So, here we are.. with a new banner for my blogspot. I tried to encapsulate all that my blog means to me in a series of pictures. 

My blog is called Dee's Monkey Mind. It is because, nothing explains my mind, or the human mind better. We are all possessors of the monkey mind. A very discursive mind, that also hops from topic to topic, when not tamed, and very agitated, very distracted and unquiet. I feel, when I see my friends and family, my mind tends to be this way a lot. 

When I was younger, I had the idea that the big purpose of my life was to be this, or that. A good daughter, a friend, a this role, or the best in that role... but as I am getting older, it occurs to me that the best thing for me today, to aspire towards, actually, instinctually is to still the monkey mind and heart. 

My mind is constantly jumping, chattering, saying unhelpful things, just because that is what it knows. I know how to quieten the mind, still it.. I know from the literature I have read. What I need is practice. Now, not that there is no time, but this is where the monkey mind works its routine. 

It inhibits change, it tries to stay safe, and then jump around to distract you from that very thought that propells you to change. In my story, I can tell you a hundred things that I have done, handled just so that I didn't have to go through that change. 

Change, on the long term, for it to settle into the subtle mind, from my understanding, needs consistency- which is a daily process, a mindful process, and which is therefore a boring process. This is the opposite of the monkey mind. 

Sometimes, you work for months, why years on just taming your mind to be consistent, all in the long term traning of the monkey mind. 

If you ask what is wrong with keeping the mind monkeying around, nothing wrong with it, until it affects your day to day life, with negative thoughts, anxiety, latches on to fear, panic and everything negative. Harnessing your own monkey mind, to be still and creative rather than disruptive, and hurtful is a personal aspiration. 

Hopefully in this space, I can write about such things safely and interact with you all. 

Have a happy Saturday!