Declutter Your Mind: Twelve Secret Steps to Clear Mental Clutter for A Lifetime of Peace and Bliss Read Free Page A

presence. Live for the experience and not just to exist.
     
    How to
banish FoMo
     
    Step One:
Stop Comparing and be Appreciative
    Yes, your
friend’s Facebook pages maybe awash with awesome vacation pictures, and you may
find yourself feeling envious about it. Stop yourself and start appreciating
what you have in life. A warm bath, a good home-cooked meal or a clean bed
linen are small but great things you can be grateful for.
     
    Step Two:
Be Willing Not To Have It All
    Needs are
limited. Desires are endless. Accept that we cannot fulfill every desire we
have. Learn to prioritize truly important things and focus on them. Prioritizing
certain activities enables us to let go of others.
     
     

Secret #7:  Tame Yourself 
    Give
your emotions a new identity.
     
    You’re
unhappy with your life just now because you’re either focusing too much on past
experiences, or are living in fear filled with anxieties about the future and worrying
about things that may never happen.
     
Thoughts
     shape beliefs
Beliefs
     shape your life
Your life
     is a culmination of thoughts from past experiences
Past
     experiences shape your attitude to your future
     
    When You Change
Your Attitude, You Change Your Future.
     
    Step One:
 Live in the now
    Better
decision making happens when you live your life in the present. You aren’t overly
influenced by the past, and you act on the opportunities that present
themselves to shape your future.
    Decisions
made without fear, regrets or worries open a world of possibilities .
     
    Step Two:
 Create your vision
    Everything
you have in life must serve a purpose. You can close your eyes and visualize
anything you want, but you need to be real. You shouldn’t focus on having
everything, or even a lot. Focus on having enough.
    Let go of
your expectations. Forget about fears, worries, friends and foes. Let go of
emotions by grounding your thoughts on the present. Surround yourself with
experiences that matter to you—not objects filled with emotional attachments—experiences
that fill your mind with a burning desire.
     
    Step Three:
 Attitude Adjustment
    Acknowledge
every thought that passes through your mind. There are thousands of them every
day of which 80% are habitual and form your attitude. In order to change your
attitude, you need to focus on changing your habitual thought patterns. That’s
the difficult and challenging part, but it is doable.
     
    Instead of
feeling angry, ask yourself why you feel that way. Reframe the thought
wording from angry to batty, as in this is driving me batty, which is a
much less powerful word. Take the negative power words, such as mad,
infuriated, raging, fuming, blood-boiling—and tone the thoughts down. Head to thesaurus.com and describe in one word how you feel. Feeling infuriated? Type it in the
search bar. You’ll see rile on the list. “I feel riled,” is much mellower than “I
feel infuriated.”
     
    Step Four:
 Don’t over think things, or just don’t think at all
    Get into the
habit of making decisions. When you find yourself over-thinking and excessively
analyzing potential outcomes, stop yourself. Visualize the stop sign at the
intersection in your mind to give yourself a visual cue to stop thinking.
     
    Call on deep
breathing, and soothe your mind so you aren’t wrestling with your thoughts to
the point of self-defeat. This will drain your energy before you even start a
task. Stop in that moment and address how you feel in one word. Ask yourself
why you feel that way. Does it really matter that you’ve a bill due to be paid
in two weeks? Yes, probably, but is it going to change the direction of your
life? Probably not.
     
    Bring
yourself into the here and now, and decide what you can actually do now. Not, “what
if” you don’t get this, that or the next thing done. Stay in the present, don’t
dwell in the past, and try not to predict what’s in the cards for the future,
because life doesn’t deal you anything. You get back