7 Ways to Declutter Your Mind and Boost Your Energy Levels!

Just picture how you would feel if you opened up your web browser and clicked on a couple dozen tabs simultaneously. The first tab is playing your favorite music loudly; the second tab is refreshing your inbox for that old conversation; the third, fourth, and fifth tabs are helping you track the project deadlines for tomorrow; and a couple more are streaming past mistakes and failures. Eventually, everything starts to slow down and freeze until there is a threat that the whole system might crash.

This very scenario happens in your head when you suffer from mental clutter. Our brain is exposed to a huge number of decisions and worries every day. Thousands of them require us to think about them and make a choice, even if it is just in a couple of seconds. Once this inner space becomes overcrowded with thoughts and decisions, a state of constant brain fog appears, making you tired, stressed, and overwhelmed. Your ability to concentrate disappears; you become emotionally depleted and lose touch with reality.

Below are seven key practices to help you clear your brain and unleash your true potential in terms of focus and energetic baseline.

1. Clean Up Your Space and Your Mind

There is a correlation between your physical space and mental clarity. When your desk is filled with disorganized papers, your kitchen counter is messy, and you don't have any order in your living space, it sends your brain a signal that you still have a lot of work to do. Physical disorder gives your brain excessive stimulation and occupies your precious cognitive resources to filter everything around you.

Steps to Create Organized Space:

• Clean up your space for five minutes in the morning and evening.

• Put things back after you use them.

• Keep only the necessary things on your desk before you start working.

• Arrange chargers and other devices in one place.

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2. Delegate Your Working Memory Right Away

Your brain is a magnificent instrument to solve problems, come up with innovative ideas, and feel deep emotions, but it is a lousy storage room for logistics. Trying to remember every little detail consumes too much cognitive power. Your brain needs to constantly remind you about everything from your working memory, which is quite a demanding task.

Steps to Delegate Your Thoughts:

• Choose one notebook or tool.

• Write down all your thoughts.

• Check your notes every day and organize them.

• Sort your notes into tasks, projects, and references.
  

3. Vent Your Feelings via Journaling

A daily checklist is a useful tool to organize operational activities, but a personal journal serves a different purpose. With the help of journaling you can vent your emotions, analyze them, and deal with all your worries and doubts before they solidify inside you. Ignoring all those stressful situations, little grievances, and unspoken fears creates a kind of an emotional burden, which is like an app on your phone that silently eats your battery.

Steps to Keep a Personal Journal:

• Spend 10-15 minutes daily writing your thoughts in the evening.

• Write down everything that comes to your mind without any corrections.

• Focus on the most important fears and worries that bother you.

• Close your session with three good things.
  

4. Forget About Multitasking and Opt for Single-Tasking

Multitasking is a valued skill in our society, but according to cognitive science, it is an illusion for the human brain. Although it may seem that you are performing several tasks at once, your brain is constantly switching between them, which creates cognitive switching residue. That means that part of your attention remains on the previous task.

Steps to Focus on Your Task:

• Open only the tabs related to your work.

• Turn off all notifications and log out from your email.

• Work in 25-50 minutes blocks.

• Let people know if you need some quiet time for your task.
  

5. Start Practicing a Strict Daily Information Diet

Right now we experience an unprecedented information overload because of the never-ending stream of alerts about breaking news, updates on social networks, group messages, and targeted advertising. Without any additional efforts you will be a victim of information fatigue and fear of missing out soon enough. All the unnecessary chaotic information occupies your mind and makes it hard to figure out what is actually important for you.

Steps to Control Your Attention:

• Unsubscribe from unnecessary newsletters and feeds.

• Read books or other high-quality articles.

• Turn off your phone in the morning and at night.

• Avoid the information that stresses you but provides nothing valuable.
  

6. Practice Mindful and Focused Breathing

If your thoughts are racing, your body will follow them and go into a state of stress. Your breathing will become superficial, your muscles will contract, and your heartbeat will start rising, sending new signals to your brain and creating a vicious circle of tiredness. The best way to stop this process and interrupt it is to change your breathing patterns, which activates the parasympathetic nervous system and helps to clear your brain.

Steps for Two-Minute Reset:

• Breathe in slowly through your nose for 4 seconds.

• Hold your breath for 4 seconds.

• Exhale gently through your mouth for 6 seconds.

• Repeat this sequence 5–8 times.
  

7. Close Open Loops by Making Decisions

What brings mental clutter the most is procrastination. Any pending decision (answering a difficult letter, booking an appointment with your doctor, solving some problem in relationships) won't disappear and will remain hanging in the background of your mind, taking up its precious space and creating a state of constant friction, which is tiring in itself.

Steps to Make Decisions:

• Create a list of pending decisions or open loops.

• Break big tasks into smaller ones.

• Set a deadline for each of them.

• Do the easiest thing first to build momentum.
  

Conclusion

Cramming your head with years of mental baggage will drain you of the vitality, focus, and happiness needed for creating a life that truly matters. Through deliberately arranging your physical environment, outsourcing your reminders, protecting your focus, and taking action, you will be able to literally strip away the fog clouding you up. 

Change involves making a conscious choice about keeping your focus protected from the relentless distractions of our current age. Take up the practice of doing all of this right now and discover how much farther your clarity and vitality can take you. Give your mind the care it deserves. Book a session with AuraHeal experts and begin your journey to clarity.