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

by S.J. Scott

When life becomes so intense and complicated, our psyches search out escape ramps. Too much input, too much negative exposure, and too many choices can trigger a not-so-healthy coping response.

Focused Deep Breathing “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thích Nhat Hanh

Start paying attention to your breathing and simply become aware of how you are taking in and releasing air throughout your day.

Your mind abhors a vacuum, so you need to fill the void with constructive thought so you don’t careen back into old patterns.

You can’t change others, anyway—you only have the power to control how you interact with and react to the people around you.

Clinging to your anger and pain only prolongs suffering and mental distress. You forgive to set yourself free from this suffering so you can move on to live in the present with a clear mind.

Letting go of a relationship is painful, even if it’s draining you, holding you back, blinding you to your true self, or, worse yet, toxic or abusive.

as we continue to develop time-saving technology, gadgets, and devices. The time we gain is quickly sucked up to quell the anxiety created by not enough to do.

How did we create a world in which we have more and more and more to do with less time for leisure, less time for reflection, less time for community, less time to just…be?

The first step in cutting back is embracing it as a worthy endeavor—acknowledging that busyness is contributing to your mental clutter and accepting that less really can be more.