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The Noisy Mind
By G C Anthony
Living with an overactive brain in a world that never switches off. Forty-one short chapters on rumination, sleep, stress, the inner critic and the pull of quick relief, written from inside the experience, with practical ways to turn the volume down.
From the opening
There is a particular kind of mind that rarely becomes quiet.
If this describes you, you are not alone. And your mind is not broken.
The same systems that produce the noise also produce sensitivity, depth, and insight. These are qualities the world quietly depends on. The difficulty is not that your mind thinks. The difficulty is that it does not know when to stop.
You do not need a quieter mind. You need a better relationship with the one you have.
There was a stretch of time when I cried at the wheel on the way to work, three or four mornings a week, for no reason I could point to. Same drive I'd done for years. Nothing had changed except what was running underneath it, and that had become more than I could carry quietly. I assumed for a long time that this was just what a mind did. It isn't.The Noisy Mind, chapter one
You didn't choose to open this investigation. It opened itself, and now some part of you is standing inside it, going through the evidence.The Noisy Mind
