Try This

Last night  after I turned off my light my my mind went into scratched record mode, I even turned the light back on and took care of a couple of things that were bothering me, turned the light off and my mind skipped forward to another scratch.  This is so frustrating to me because no matter what I do, when my mind is in scratched record mode I can't seem to move it to a healthy place.

Tuesday we had book group.  Can I just say I love these women.  We have been together for 7 years now.  We are all very different but we love one another.  We are a Sisterhood.  We trust one another with our concerns, our questions, and our ideas and we have laughed and laughed. Part of our discussion Tuesday was on time and mindfulness.  We mused that being in the moment is really all we have in this earth life.  We can't change the past nor can we worry about what is to come.  My mom use to quote, I don't know who, but we often heard "the best laid plans of mice and men often  go astray."  If we will just live this moment to it's fullest, following the prompting of the Holy Ghost, doing our very best to deal with it, appreciate it, learn from it, if we are mindful, life can be good.

So as I lay in bed last night I thought,"how can I be mindful in this moment?"  I started going thru my five senses.  What was I hearing, tasting, smelling? Were my eyes aware of anything in the dark?  How would I describe what I was touching?  Somewhere in my second go around of each sense I was lost to sleep.