Do you feel that your mind isn’t productive?
That it never seems to have the capacity for good ideas, positive beliefs, and lots of energy for life?
Well, if you do, you are not as unusual as you think. Your mental experiences are mirrored by millions of people worldwide. People who believe that they are just meant to have lower mental skills than others. Or, more damagingly, that there is something wrong with them in the head.
If you feel either, or both are you, take heart because your mind isn’t flawed. And neither are you. Your mind is simply not working effectively and efficiently, like an old piano that needs tuning or old car in need of a service.
If you read on you will find the 5 reasons that your mind isn’t working as actively as it could.
Ones that can retune your mind and give it an overhaul so it’s firing on all cylinders again.
Let’s look at those famous five of the mind.
1. It’s all clogged up.
Think of your mind like a computer or mobile phone.
Every single day it receives bits of data and information from facts and figures to opinions and viewpoints. It has to process these so that you can understand life and function healthily and safely in the world. But modern life is chocced full of fast paced stuff coming at you minute by minute. That all needs your mind to work it out.
There’s reason No.1. Like a computer, your mental system has simply gotten clogged up holding too much mental space. Computers slow down, crash, and freeze when they are overloaded with data they can’t compute.
Your memory (as with a computer) is full and it needs to release old info or stop the flow of the new to start functioning again.
Old beliefs may need to be rethought. Schedules or jobs written down so they are not whizzing round your head. Anything that frees some room in your mind so it can breathe. Start with some Micro Positive Thinking to unstick your mind.
No.1 – unclog your mind and free some head space.
2. It’s not been used for you.
No two minds are the same.
We are all built differently. Some slightly so, others in more pronounced fashion.
This means our minds are wired to support us personally. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m a creative sort – full of ideas and concepts, always seeing possibilities, and exploring options. However, I have friends completely the opposite of this. They are logical and methodical, some incredibly mathematical in nature, a couple who work systematically (A = B and so on).
Now how well do you think my mind would work if I tried to be like them? Yep, I’d be lost. Or, let me put it another way. What if they were trying to paint like Picasso? Or Picasso attempted to think up a new system for train timetables? The results wouldn’t be pretty!
Neither would be using THEIR minds in the way they were personally built.
And the same most likely now goes for you too!
No.2 – use your mind how you personally are.
3. Too much distraction action.
Just another five minutes.
What you tell yourself as you scroll on your phone or playing online games. Or watching yet another show on TV. Hey, even speaking to your bestie about the gossip for the third time that day (for at least an hour).
In this 21st Century society with its myriad of gadgets and technologies, there is always something right where we are vying for our attention. And we fall for it time after time telling ourselves it’s for only a short while. Except it never is.
These distractions are using up your concentration and mental bandwidth.
Mental faculties that could, and should, be used at creating and building and improving your circumstances, are being used elsewhere. Distracted away to get to Level 25 at Forest Fairy Fantasy or an extra episode of the new cool drama or finding out what Brad told Matt about you (since yesterday).
Your distraction action is high so your good mental usage is low.
No.3 – too much mental distraction activity is using your mind.
4. Not enough repair care.
Imagine you are someone who goes running.
And let’s say you do this every single day for hours. Sure you would be fitter and faster and leaner. But, and it’s a huge but, you would also gradually collapse with sheer exhaustion and injury if you didn’t have enough rest. Consuming up energy constantly eventually takes its toll. It’s not limitless. What you use up is going to need to be replaced. It doesn’t just fall out of the sky (as in the Forest Fairy Fantasy game).
Now replace the word running with the term ‘using your mind’.
You use your mind a thousand times more often each day that anyone who runs. If runners get depleted and have a low ebb, then your mind is guaranteed to follow suit. But, you often plough on into a never ending loop of tasks, and distractions, and no useful activities that drain your mind’s energy banks.
You have to commit time and space to more repair. More sleep, more quiet times, less overthinking and worrying or worse (yes, less news would help with that!!!). Any down time for the mind that lets it repair and recharge.
No.4 – take more care to repair and refill your mental energy.
5. It’s been used to worry not wonder.
Your mind will think. That’s a fact.
We have multiple thousands of thoughts a day. Those thoughts are part of the mind working and staying in use. However, it only can think as directed. Remember, it’s a computer and programmable (it’s the No.1 way the human mind is like a robot).
And the programmer and the controller is you.
Modern pressures (wars, cost of living, increased demands on time and everyday stresses) have gradually pushed you to looking at life in a less than enthusiastic way. Pessimism and anxiety have become the programme that has been input into your mind. One that you repeat multiple times a day if not per hour at certain times.
This is heavy. Heavy and hard and draining.
You need to catch yourself doing it and hit the switch. Find ways to look for the little positives, the daily joys and simple pleasures in your world. Focus instead on the good things that are there that so make life worth living. They DO exist, you have not let your mind notice and appreciate them.
The wonders that will dwarf your worries.
There’s your new 5 mental insights into your mind. The ones that will help shift it from dull to dynamic and from listless to lively. And if you see them through, some changes will occur almost instantly in how your feel mentally.
It’s time to move your mind, it will move your life with it!
