When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
We have a tendency to put ourselves last, we concentrate on everything else; work, friends, family, home issues, but we ignore the deeper stuff until it becomes so compressed that it can explode.
Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
If I talk about something I either talk about it or I DO it... the minute I talk about it it's lost all it's drive and all it's fun.
I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.
My brain doesn't like to be quiet.