The mental parasites you don’t see

We all have worries, fears, dreams.

But have you ever paused long enough to actually observe your wild mind?

The fears we obsess over are mostly completely out of our control.
The mental highs we ride from exciting stories, future fantasies, and what-ifs.

They feel important. Urgent. Alive.

But sometimes they’re just parasites.

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Thought-forms that feed on attention.
Stories that survive because we keep energizing them.

I was on a walk one day and realized something.

Without the chaos,
without the fixation on fear or some outlandish dream,

we are left face-to-face with the small, quiet parts of ourselves that need strengthening.
The parts that need attention, care, growth.

And honestly, that can feel itchy.

Uncomfortable. Boring, even.

When you stop feeding the mental parasites, the drama, the fantasy, the spirals, you are left fully present with the parts of you that are unfinished, unpolished, still learning.

There is nothing dramatic to escape into.
No chaos to distract you.
No fantasy to carry you away from the work you came here to do.

But here is what we often miss.

Strengthening those small, quiet muscles is what slowly removes what has been draining you.

The work is the cleanse.

The work is what starves the parasite.

And on the other side of that discomfort,
you do not find chaos or fantasy.

You find yourself.

XO,
Gabi and Bea

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