If you struggle with racing thoughts, a lack of focus or anxiety, it may be helpful to know that rather than struggle against “the problem” you can access and harness the healing power of the solution.

There are interconnected regions within our brain known as “the default mode network.” These regions are engaged when we are in a passive activity–like when we get lost in daydreaming, letting our thoughts wander here and there without analyzing, predicting and worrying.

Remember how when you were a kid you’d sit by the window or under a tree and let your mind roam with no real purpose? That healing potential is hardwired into our human being. Its a way our brain naturally declutters. You could think of daydreaming as a really healthy “thought detox.” Or you could think of it as “defragging your hard drive” like you do to keep your computer running optimally.

Gazing Meditation

To engage the default mode network in our brain and give our analytical thoughts a rest all we have to do is stare aimlessly off into space. It’s that simple.

Here’s How

Stand with your feet about hip width apart or sit in your favorite comfy chair. It’s always nice to choose a spot outside where you’ll be absorbing and naturally attuning to the energy of nature.

If you’re standing, relax and bend your knees slightly. Locked knees aren’t ideal.

Relax your shoulders and abdomen.

Relax your focus. Open up to take everything in. Allow your gaze to be fixed on one point. Shift your awareness to what you hear, smell and feel around you.

The magic of meditation of any kind–including gazing meditation–is to get so lost in open focus we forget to think. In this state our default mode network is engaged, the brain is at rest and healing is taking place.

Rather than swimming upstream against stress, our thoughts, our anxiety or our illness, this is one way to engage the intelligent healing power and feel better in our body right now.

Diana Maria Chapin is an energy healer, scientist, speaker, trainer, writer, and culture-shifter.  She works with individuals, groups, and businesses to engage the healing power of heart intelligence.  For more tools for healing check out www.DianaMariaChapin.com