Are you paying mental rent

@thepreposterouspanda Just gotta remember, we are not our thoughts. 😎

@Bratt Nope! Gotta keep those fuckers in a box and let them out when we're ready. 😎🤘

@thepreposterouspanda Or perhaps simply BE...the awareness behind them.

@Bratt It's a difficult thing for me, really; my brain has always been overactive. It's why I have a hard time with meditation and that sort of thing, but it's also why I enjoy writing so much. I can take the thoughts that are bouncing around up there and put them on a piece of paper or to a piece of music, and it calms them for a while. :)

@thepreposterouspanda A meditation in and of itself then 🙂

@Bratt Mhm! I'm also fond of pacing a route, just finding a circle that feels comfortable that day. Then I'll smoke a bit and play some lofi before I walk it and just think. 🤔

@thepreposterouspanda Have read a thesis or two in support of the unadulterated feedback loop between the steady rhythm of the body and the thoughts generated there of 🤔

@Bratt That's really interesting. 🤔 I wonder if that's why playing guitar helps me think as well? Just going through that muscle memory engrained in my fingers, seeing what comes out.

@thepreposterouspanda Certainly. Measure a calm steady breath vs the flow of fingers on the fret board?

Both take discipline to attain. In time, both are meditational in a sense that the absence of thought, is ground zero for deep contemplation to occur.

@Bratt I really want to get a drumset again for that very reason. It's a very easy thing to get lost in. :) (Also, good leg/ankle exercise, and all the gods know I need all of it that I can get at this point. 😂😎)