Writing as Meditation: Slowing the Mind to Speed the Text
The mind as a source of noise and resistance Starting to write can be such a struggle sometimes. There’s this blank page staring back, and inside your head? Noise—self-criticism, anxiety, procrastination, all that mental clutter. It’s like your brain just won’t let you focus on the core of what you want to say. Instead, you're tangled up worrying about judgment, doubting ideas, scared of messing up. It’s exhausting, really. This is basically what happens when the mind gets overloaded. Today, we’re always stimulated by a million things, and when it’s time to concentrate, the brain doesn’t exactly cooperate; it "resists." Weirdly, conscious writing asks us not to fight this resistance but to work with it—slow down, watch the mind’s chatter rather than wrestle it. It’s a bit like slowing your car down so you can take a tricky turn instead of crashing. And, well, in this fast-paced world, finding decent help online is becoming crucial. For instance, Studybay is an online pl...
