Defragmenting Inner Hard Drives

Of course, if our minds are fastened on fear and running amok in a weed-ridden forest of negative thoughts, solitude and quiet can sometimes exacerbate feelings of anxiety, isolation, and depression. Attempting to find peace and hope in quiet and solitude when your mind is overloaded and in an Adversarial Thinking Zone is like trying to get your computer to run even though the hard drive is fragmented. A couple of days ago, after giving me some written messages that were equivalent to rude gestures, my computer refused to budge. I begged it, prayed over it, sent it energy, considered kicking it, and finally turned it off illegally. Zilch, zero, nada… Then I remembered the message: “Your hard drive is fragmented.”

I’m not a cyber whiz by any stretch of the imagination, so my son gave me a Simple Simon explanation of fragmented drives. He said that a whole lot of information has been stored hither and yon on the hard drive until it is so fragmented it can’t make sense out of anything and simply stops. I would translate this as: The guts of the machine get so stressed out and discombobulated that it has a nervous breakdown. In its wisdom, the computer knows that it needs to lower its stress level and organize all the bits and bytes into a form it can comprehend before it will have the resources to continue.

Ah ha! I got it. How about you? There is so much stored within our mind, emotions, psyche, subconscious, and unconscious that many of us are fragmented and stressed beyond tolerance levels.

Excerpted from How to Stay Upbeat in a Beat Down World by Sue Patton Thoele. Available on Amazon.