Face the fear of not interpreting and stay with the experience’. I was advised by an anonymous wise person on a forum maybe 15 years ago. It hit me powerfully at the time.

Now that I’m having more inner quiet and longer breaks in between my thoughts, I can see the contrast. I have been noticing just how much of my life has been, and still is, lived through my thinking, and the ongoing interpreting of my minute to minute experiences in my thoughts. And how very crowded it can feel in here due to that.

Learn to be self-compassionate and talk gently to yourself. Replace judging or criticising yourself by developing a nurturing inner voice and say to yourself during hard times “You’re a good person going through a hard time. You’ll get through this, lets take one moment at a time. It will be okay”.