How to Clear Your Mind Without Meditation
By: Brandon Bell
Tags: Meditation, Mental Health, Self, Life Lessons, Mind

Finding clarity is tough, sometimes we know what the problem is and sometimes we don’t. It’s a topic that's not talked about a lot amongst friends and family because there is no right answer for finding it. There are different techniques that you can try to obtain it sooner than usual but not all those techniques are useful to everyone.

One of those techniques is meditation, there are many people who avoid meditation because of the difficulty that comes with but can be very useful to someone who is willing to work with them. Let’s be honest, anyone can do meditation but that doesn’t mean it’s useful for everyone. Some people may have had a troubling experience with it which makes them not want to try it again or there are some people who meditate regularly but still can’t find clarity because they’ve been doing it so often.

With any obstacle in your life, it’s always a good idea to go back to the basics. The basics provide you with fundamentals, which can help you clear your head in a more efficient way. Once we find techniques like meditation to put all of our trust and hope into, we then become dependent on them.

We all lead busy and unbusy lives that ultimately lead us to stress. It’s important that we take time out of our day to check on our mental health and see what’s bothering us inside. Too many unwanted thoughts in our head can lead us to anxiety and frustration which never turn out to be good.

These factors stop us from leaving our life to the fullest and prevent us from doing what we actually want to do. There is no worse feeling than being held back by somebody and that somebody is you. Let’s look at a few basic procedures that you can take to gain clarity back into your life.

Have a personal journal

Writing in a journal that was created for you to share your thoughts on paper is a great and inexpensive tool to have when having a cluttered mind. We tend to have so many thoughts in our head at the same time that we forget about the most important ones.

Write down what’s bothering you the most at the moment and keep going from there. You don’t have to write in an organized structure, write what you feel. After doing this for about five to ten minutes, you’ll end up gaining more charity. Your thoughts are reduced into simple sentences and you’re now able to see them on paper.

You’ll come to a realization that these thoughts aren’t as scary as you may have assumed they were. Read back what you wrote to yourself and spend time thinking about what sentences strikes you most. That sentence or sentences are what has been on your mind the most, look back at those sentences every day when you get a chance and find a way to solve the problems that are within them.

Journaling at the beginning of your day will help you go into the world with a clear mindset, you won’t have any lingering thoughts from yesterday sneaking up on you and you’ll also know what negative thoughts to look out for.

Write down what you’re thankful for along with some goals you may have for the day. Those are the thoughts that you want to have in your head instead of the negative and condescending ones. Writing at night gives you the opportunity to examine how you are feeling throughout the day along with any regrets you may have had about that day.

Reflection isn’t always easy to do but when using a journal, makes the process a lot easier and more emotionally controllable. Bring your journal with you wherever you go so that if your mind starts to get too busy, you can then whip it out and write down what you need to. Staying organized can’t be done all in your head, it will require you to sit down and write about it when you make the time for it.