Information Overload:
Creativity depends on having space in your mind to generate associations, connections, and seeds for growing a concept. I think trying to “keep up” with the number of details in the news and tidbits about friends and family is taxing the brain.
As an experiment, I have tried to limit the time I spend hunting for trivia, by not using my phone from 9 pm to 9 am.  I am failing a lot.  When I wake up at 3 am. the cell phone, that tantalizing gadget is on the couch. It holds both intrigue and frustration. I think I’ll check my email for a friend’s reply, but a story pops up that I could, but don’t, resist. Soon I’ve wasted four minutes, that’s followed up with a dose of news and another “You won’t believe.”  All that information is creating a fog, mind chatter that isn’t useful.  My mind is too muddy to do anything useful. I keep dozing of
My spiritual advisor told me  “Don’t try to figure things out right now.
The implication being that the confluence fortune and folly in my life, Â had too many variables to control and make a plan.
“Just be present,” he said.
Yes, I remembered, “Everything comes from Stillness.”
We need quiet: We need emotional and physical rest. We need silence.
Waiting is not a Waste of Time.
Lee Guerette
