Your Thoughts Are Hostage-Takers

Your “monkey mind” is a warehouse full of emotional psychos looking to hijack your attention.

Once they’ve got your attention, they can work your narrative. They can brainwash you into thinking that your thoughts and feelings are your identity.

They’re not.

Thoughts and feelings are traffic signals… Needed to get from point A to point B but not the destination.

Narratives are roads that fold back in on themselves. They are designed to go nowhere. To stay in a safe circle. Designed to protect themselves. They are world-views that were developed as a survival strategy at some point. Probably when you were very young.

They circle the wagons but never head west.

They’re good soldiers. They have your best interest at heart.

The problem is the “you” they’re protecting is an adolescent frozen in time.

You are not.

Let the monkeys run free. Let them fall to your periphery. They are your friends. They are keeping watch for you.

But it is you that will have to let them know that you are now self-directed.

Thank them for your vigilance.

Let them know you are grateful. Update them on how business is done now…

Thoughtfully. Emotionally engaged. Aware of their input and often informed by it… but not triggered or identified by it.

Let the monkeys know that you don’t do “hostage” anymore.