{"id":54932,"date":"2023-03-03T05:10:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T13:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/?p=54932"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:36:31","slug":"spinning-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nalandabodhi.org\/nl\/2023\/03\/03\/spinning-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I was probably four years old, my best friend was Michael who lived next door. Our favorite game was to stand a few feet apart and spin and spin like tops, our arms flung outward, until we lost our balance and then, dizzy and stumbling, landed with a hard flop in the thick St. Augustine grass.\u00a0<\/p>

For a few moments, I couldn\u2019t get up again. All the world was open sky and drifting clouds. I could only surrender to the weight of my body on the ground, gaze into the high blue expanse, and wait for a sense of balance to return.\u00a0<\/p>

Then we\u2019d hop right up and start the game all over again!\u00a0<\/p>

It strikes me now that my mind works very much like this when it\u2019s in the grip of stress and anxiety. My thoughts spin and spin, gaining momentum and speed with each new interpretation, each storyline, until finally I just can\u2019t think anymore. My mind, confounded, lands in a heap, so to speak, and I surrender to staring out the window without a clue. Just looking and feeling. And then after a moment not even looking, really. Just being, and breathing.<\/p>

I learned this method, called Mindful Gap, from my teacher, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche. Once, Rinpoche was explaining how to apply this first step of the Emotional Rescue Method to working with anxiety or any other strong emotion. He said, \u201cThe first thing you do is stop. Stop spinning, interpreting, or commenting and just feel it. Just observe it directly and then stop. Let it happen.\u201d<\/p>

In Mindful Gap, I relax just a little bit and stop my thoughts from spinning. I go back to the ground or home base \u2013\u2013 back to my body, my heart strongly beating. I let myself feel the ragged breathing pattern, the heat in my face, the fluttery energy of agitation.<\/p>

When I remember to do this, I land in an open space where I can see, really see, what\u2019s both inside and right in front of me. My mind pans out to the sky above my head or the stillness of the quiet kitchen. Someone may even be speaking to me, and yet somehow there\u2019s more space. I surrender to the moment and watch, accepting whatever is floating there. Once I stop my thoughts spinning and just feel, the busy energy in my body gradually settles down.<\/p>

If you find yourself caught up in a whirl of thoughts, judgments, or arguments (while watching the news, for instance) try this for a moment and see what happens. Stop spinning and look inside. Just feel and let it happen. When I do this, it\u2019s not long before a sense of balance returns. And then, with luck, I don\u2019t start spinning all over again!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ceci Miller has been a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche since 2009. She is a book editor and author. Through CeciBooks publishing consultancy, she helps authors and experts develop their work and expand its beneficial impact. A mother and grandmother, Ceci lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington.\u200b<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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