This question really goes to highlight how we’ve misinterpreted eastern teachings. The question shows that we believe we need to somehow overcome our thoughts. That having any kind of thought is a bad thing.
Let’s look at it from a different point of view. Your thoughts are racing! Well, maybe something is wrong. Maybe something needs to be taken care of.
Say you fell down and you broke your leg, and the bone is sticking out of your leg. Would you stop and go, “Oh, the bone is sticking out of my leg. What should I do?”
No! You’d get to the doctor!
Pain in your body is telling you something is wrong. You’ve got a pain in your stomach, you’ve got a pain in your neck. What is it? Why is this here? You try to figure it out.
So your thoughts are racing. What’s going on?
Maybe something needs to be taken care of. Maybe something is going on that you can actually take care of.
One thing that makes your brain race and race and race is when you are trying to figure out a fundamental lie. Something has fundamentally confused you.
Like, you’ve learned that you are always supposed to be happy. But you’re not happy. Instead of trying to figure out what’s wrong and what you can do about it we see the unhappiness itself as a problem.
Now you’ve go two problems! Now your mind is really racing.
The first thing to do is look at what’s really going on. Why is it racing? I find that when my mind is active like that, and I really dive into what’s going on, that I almost always come to some sort of a resolution. Because I am willing to dive deeply into the lies I’ve been taught.
Sometimes your mind is racing because of something you did. That’s the toughest one of all. If you’ve done something, figure it out. Why did you do that? What can you do? Who do you need to apologize to? How can you apologize effectively.
In spirituality you are never supposed to try to fix something!
But what if it needs fixed?
Sometimes life is just that simple.