What to do when our mind is confused

Our mind is active 24/7, and that too at very high speed. Mostly it is lost either in analyzing our past actions or planning for the future dreams. Since past is dead, and future does not exist, we are perpetually confused. I am reading great philosopher J. Krishnamurti's book called The Awakening of Intelligence, and he has explained the workings of a confused mind beautifully as given below.

A confused mind seeking clarity will only further confuse itself, because a confused mind can't find clarity. It's confused; what can it do? Any search on its part will only lead to further confusion. I think we don't realize that. Most of us like to remain confused, because in the state of confusion we need not act. And so we are satisfied with the confusion, so as to avoid action.

When we are confused, we have to stop; stop pursuing any activity. And the very stopping is the beginning of the new, which is the most positive action. To remove confusion we need to develop self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom, and also, self-knowledge is the beginning and the ending of sorrow. Self-knowledge is not to be bought in a book, or by going to a psychologist and being examined analytically. Self-knowledge is actually understanding what is in oneself: the pains, the anxieties, the fears, the despair, and seeing them without any distortion. Out of this understanding clarity comes into being. But for that to happen we must give our whole attention, our whole interest, to it.

To know the whole content of one's mind, one has to be aware, aware in the sense of observing, not with resistance or with condemnation, not with approval or disapproval, not with pleasure or non-pleasure, just observing. That observation is the negation of the psychological structure of a society which says, 'You must, you must not.' So, what is essential is to see that when one is confused, he should not try to escape from it, not try to find explanations for it; rather be passively, choicelessly, aware of it. And then we will see that quite a different action springs from that passive awareness, because if we make an effort to clarify the state of confusion, what we create will still be confused. But, if we are aware of ourselves, choicelessly, passively aware, then that confusion unfolds and fades away.