You help your brain make proper use of resources by being mindful of the things that you really need to keep in your brain. By giving the brain some spring cleaning, you are able to free neural spaces that mind clutter used to take up. In effect, you would feel that your mind is clear after letting go of things in your mind that you do not truly need in your life. That also allows you to get rid of the usual brain fog that leads to the feeling of being overwhelmed, which in turn makes you lose your focus on the things that you truly need to improve your life. By lessening brain clutter, you would be able to reverse the effects of time on your brain. You would feel that your mind, along with your ability to adapt to changes around you, improves.
At the same time, you would also feel that you are more emotionally adjusted even at the face of challenges and that you have the ability to be satisfied with what you have. That means that having less of the things that just clutter your mind allows you to be enjoy a more positive disposition in life. Here are some things that you can do to declutter your brain:
1. Do some stretching. Stretching exercises and doing some yoga poses allows you to make oxygen flow through your body and relax your mind. By doing some stretching when you feel that your mind is overwhelmed, you allow your brain to make some space. You may even find that you have better ideas when you get back to your tasks after stretching.
2. Sing or listen to your favorite song. You can get rid of negative clutter from your mind by hearing a tune that you really like. The reason is that it would be difficult for you to ruminate about things that bog down your mind when you hear a rhythm or a melody that you really like.
3. Get moving. One of the most effective ways to clear a brain fog is to get your body moving. You can dance, do a favorite exercise move, take a mindful walk outside, or anything that sets your body into movement. By doing so, you get some endorphin bonuses, which allows you to get out of a mental block.
4. Think of happy thoughts. Remembering something positive that happened to you does not only allow you to relive happy feelings, but also help you get into a positive mood. By making it a point to remember the good times, you allow yourself to get motivated by past actions and also look at the better side of things. When you become aware that you are capable of experiencing something good out of your experiences, you allow your mind to channel behaviors and skills that puts you in situations that you may have enjoyed in the past.
5. Remember to be grateful. Clearing out mind clutter can be as simple as being truly grateful for everything that you enjoy. By being simply thankful for whom you are or who you are not, you enable your mind to free itself from worries, which contributes to stress reduction.
6. Use humor. It may be impossible for people to purge negative thoughts that easily, since negative emotions such as anger, hate, embarrassment, and sadness are all part of humanity. However, it is possible for you to redirect your mind from these negative emotions by channeling humor. While you are aware that negative biases and emotions are part of life and are completely unavoidable, you can reframe the context of negative situations to look at their better side. By seeing negative events to be funny from another perspective, you allow yourself to direct your mind to think of positive thoughts. When you learn to laugh at your mistakes, you practice your mind to look at another angle of an otherwise bad experience. Once you become aware that a bad event may not be that bad at all, you can also consider that a negative experience can help you learn something that you are not aware of before.
7. Surround yourself with happy people. As a famous saying goes,“fake it until you make it”. That goes the same with channeling positive thoughts to replace the bad ones. By mimicking the optimism or positive disposition of people around you, you would be able to pick up how optimistic people view the world around them. This can turn into a habit sooner than you think, since you are likely to catch positive emotions more than the negative ones.
