How Loaded Is Your Mind?
Your mind is one of the most powerful tools you have access to, and what you feed it establishes whether it is your biggest supporter or your greatest limitation. The way you choose to maintain and regulate your mind determines whether it makes or breaks you as you try to navigate the many challenges and experiences you encounter on your life journey.
Too often, we overload our minds with worry, stress, anxiety, and frustration, as we try to avoid processing situations and dealing with our emotions, and this means that our thoughts accumulate and serve to be a distraction that keeps us occupied and negatively busy in a world which has a clouded and blurred reality.
When you carry and demonstrate such negative emotions, you are not only projecting negativity to others, you are also affecting yourself internally. Your mind is constantly being strained by the baggage of and reliving the negative moments that you have attached emotions and feelings to, and refuse to release from your body. The embodiment of negativity within you increases the feelings of not being good enough, and you start to resent yourself and your own life holistically, as you begin to see everything from a negative perspective and lens, where nothing is how you want it to be, and you find yourself constantly craving for more and never being satisfied with what you have in your possession.
To reclaim your power over your thoughts and decision-making, you need to declutter YOUR mind and get rid of the baggage and things that are not serving YOU, only then will it be easier for you to clarify your vision, and reidentify your purpose. Actively reflect on how much load your mind is carrying, are the scales balanced, is the baggage you are carrying necessary, or is it just weighing you down and disempowering you?
Through offloading and decluttering your mind, you create and nurture space for the birthing of new ideas, the soil from which they are stemming and growing becomes much more fertile and the positive energy around them allows for them to blossom and thrive, enabling you to make your imagination a present part of your reality, whilst distancing yourself from past experiences which were previously serving as limitations to your progression and preventing you from achieving the greatness you deserved.
Storing is also not a solution, but a major part of the problem. You cannot be reaching and feel new ideas and experiences when your mind is still full, busy, and immersed in the thoughts of yesterday, the overcrowded mind is destructive and prevents you from being able to access and live in the present moment.
Yes, you are trying to hide what happened, but despite being slightly tidied up, the clutter remains, continuing to take up time and causing you even more pain and anxiety, as what you are carrying now is no longer just the truth, but also the baggage of lies that you have created as an attempt to mask reality. The secrets you are trying to keep might remain hidden for a few days, months, or even years, but eventually, the guilt of internally knowing what truly happened becomes tiring to keep up with, and too much of a burden to carry on holding.
You might suppress your feelings and emotions at the moment, but this does not mean that the situation didn’t take place. No, it will not always be an easy process, sometimes it will be painful and you will experience discomfort in facing the truth, accepting it, and coming to terms with reality, but it is only through allowing yourself to feel the emotions, that you will be able to process them, and develop the confidence needed to release them.
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Decluttering also means reevaluating the people in your space and reflecting on the impact they have on you, questioning whether their presence is serving you, or causing you discomfort which is stopping you from thinking clearly, and doing YOU how you want to do YOU.?
Sometimes, this might even be close family or friends, people you had trusted but are no longer who you had thought they were or who they had claimed to be, what you need to remember is that TOXIC is TOXIC, whether that is family or not.?
Cutting off such people and removing them from your mental and physical space is not being selfish, what you are doing is ridding your space of the negativity which is clouding your vision and creating an environment in which you feel aligned, and there is room for YOU to do YOU freely without worrying about what others will say or think.
Too often, we say that what we are doing is for our family, but in doing so, what you are doing is feeding the cycle, as what they see is that you accept what is happening, even though, internally you might be breaking.?
Yes, they might be your family, but if they loved you for who you are, they would be there to support you and love you unconditionally, and would not cause you to feel guilty for doing what is best for you, even if it does not fully align with them, or if it something they are not used to, what you cannot do is allow such cultural and societal attitudes to weigh you down and stop your mind from thinking clearly and freely in a way that serves you.