Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking

by S.J. Scott

Together, we are the authors of two previous books about mindfulness and leading a less complicated lifestyle: 10-Minute Declutter: The Stress Free Habit for Simplifying Your Home and 10-Minute Digital Declutter: The Simple Habit to Eliminate Technology Overload. Not only do these books teach practical actions to control your material possessions, they also show how eliminating the “noise” in your life can have a positive impact on mental health. Both of us have different

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When you first begin, don’t take in too much air in one breath. Start by breathing to the count of four, pausing for the count of two, and exhaling to the count of four. If you notice you’re hyperventilating, don’t breathe in quite as deeply. With practice, you’ll enlarge your lung capacity and can inhale more air.

Often, overthinking and negativity are triggered by a person, situation, or physical state. Pay attention to common worries and anxieties you brood about.

#4. Set a Worry Timer

We become reactors to what life throws at us, rather than carefully evaluating what is best for us.

Generation,” those who grew up during the Great Depression, had strong,

clear values and priorities, and a solid sense of purpose forged during the difficult years during and after World War II.

Define your core values.

Because your core values can serve as a measuring stick for all of your choices and decisions in life,

When you’re clear on your values, you reduce confusion, overthinking, worry, and anxiety.

Values act as our compass to put us back on course every single day, so that day after day, we’re moving in the direction that takes us closer and closer to our definition of the “best” life we could possibly live. The “best” is your own ideal, but generally as you get closer to this ideal, you’ll enjoy increasingly positive shades of “better” even if you never reach “best.” And this makes sense because many results in life exist on a continuum.

He suggests you don’t need to wait for change, for something better, for the future, before you are content. You can be content right now if you choose to see all of the good and beauty around you in the present moment.

change and transformation will happen to you whether or not you decide to focus on it.