Why is my mind always going a hundred miles an hour? The reason why your mind is going a hundred miles an hour is because you let it do so. You have lost control. At the moment, your mind is like a horse and carriage with a drunken driver on board. Your mind is the horse and you are the drunken driver. The horse just does whatever it pleases because the driver is too drunk to control it. It is the same with your mind. You must start to take control of your mind by being vigilant about what comes in and what comes out. In the beginning, the horse will start to buck very hard because it is not used to be tamed. It wants to do as it pleases. It is like a ceiling fan. Although you switch it off from the wall switch, it takes a while for the actual ceiling fan to stop spinning. The mind needs time to go back to its original state of peace and tranquility.