Top 6 ways to declutter your mind for a healthy life

Top 6 ways to declutter your mind for a healthy life

Do you sometimes feel exhausted mentally? Like you want to unwind everything from your mind? If the answer is yes then your internal storage is waving a red flag, pleading you to free up space.

Cluttering is a serious problem that is stopping you from achieving what you desire.

When your mind is a clutter, you will never be able to concentrate or be productive.

It is essential that you free up your internal storage from time to time to have a healthy lifestyle.

Below are the 6 easy ways that help you declutter your mind

1. Physical mess = Mental mess

        Cleaning your physical space plays an important role in decluttering your mind. Physical mess always signals the brain that there is something more to be done always and that is mentally exhausting.

        Imagine that you have an important task to complete. So, you come home soon straight from your office. Before going to your study room you go to the kitchen to grab some water. There you see a pile of unwashed dishes. You sigh and go to the bedroom to change, there you see clothes all over your room. Now, you go to your desk to start working there you find papers spread all over, unorganized. Do you think you can sit in peace and work?

No. Your brain has already dumped all this information in it. It will keep on reminding you that there are more tasks to be done. As a result, you will not be able to be focused on your work or motivated to clean the mess.

            So, it is always necessary that you declutter your physical space. This will enable you to be more organized and productive.

            Studies also show that decluttering your physical space will help in reducing stress and anxiety. It will boost your sense of accomplishment

2. Prioritize your tasks

            Knowing what to do is essential for your mental wellness. Your mind will always get attracted to shiny objects. One day, you might want to start a business and the next day you want to travel the world. Your mind gets attracted to all sorts of things that make it excited. But, it is important for you to prioritize what you want and set a long term goal. You have to start putting actions to it concentratedly. If you fail to do so you will have a never-ending to-do list for your whole life.

3. Stop Multitasking

           When you have multiple tasks in your hand at once, you will only be able to give your partial attention. If you wanted to do something perfectly, you will need to give your undivided attention to it.

            You have to allocate time for each task based on your priorities and devote your attention exclusively to that one particular task at the devoted time. Forget all the other tasks that you needed to do.

4. Limit the amount of Information you intake

             In this era of information, your brain dumps all the information it gets through social media, newspapers, blogs, books, TV and so on

             Limit the amount of information coming in by doing the following:

• Take only the information that is useful for you and ignore the rest. Finding the remains of an alien in America has nothing to do with you or your goals, so better avoid it.
• Unsubscribe or unfollow people that you feel useless to your life.
• Set a limit for the usage of social media or browsing the internet.
• Don’t watch TV continuously for more than half an hour.

5. Start Journaling

            Keeping a journal is one of the best ways to declutter your mind space.

            Your mind might hold so many unwanted thoughts, ideas, emotions, and feelings. You cant always carry this mental baggage along. You have to unload it somewhere.

             Journaling will help you to unload this baggage. Journals will be like a best friend, a counselor who listens to you without judging.  You can write about your past memories, present happenings, and future goals.

           You will feel relaxed if you write it down.

6. Be on Auto-Pilot

            Small routine tasks can occupy a lot of brain space. This might include deciding your breakfast, what you wanted to wear and so on.

            You can put these tasks on Autopilot by having a constant routine for it. You can always have the same breakfast and decide what you wanted to wear the previous day. If you have noticed the Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, he always wears the same tee always. He is on autopilot mode because he doesn’t want to waste his brain's energy on small tasks like deciding what to wear.

Once you declutter your mind and start living by that your brain will gain more energy. As a result of this, you will be able to concentrate on your goals and succeed. Decluttering is essential and the most important thing that everyone should do in order to have a healthy mind.