Great ways to detox your mind

1. Set an Intention

A helpful way to begin the detox process is to set an intention for the season, or next chapter of your life. This helps you step into a new dynamic in a conscious way, instead of leaving it up to chance.

2. Spend Time Outdoors

Time spent outside has the power to invite encouragement, inspiration, and increased energy levels to your mind and body

3. Schedule Time and Space Without Technology

In order to get into a deeper state of self-reflection and mental clarity, you’ll want to set aside time without distractions — to detach from the nonstop electronic and social demands on daily life.

4. Meditate

The average human mind has at least 50,000 thoughts every day, which means you have a new thought about every 1.2 seconds. This is why the human mind is often referred to as the monkey mind. It’s easy for the mind to follow the many random thoughts and get lost and distracted from priorities, so having a way to detox your mind is important to help you keep your focus.

5. Journal or Vent

Sometimes you just need to get out what’s on your mind. Try setting a timer for 30 minutes and doing a brain dump of all of the things you want to complain about or challenges you are struggling with to let it all go and detox your mind from those nagging worries.

6. Ask Yourself Some Important Questions

Now is the time to take inventory of where you are in life and what you want to focus on and release. Ask yourself:

• What’s working in my life, and what’s not?

• What could be improved?

• Are there any relationships in my life that are not offering me value or joy?

• What is one bad habit that I feel ready to break?

7. Let Go

Reflect on your responses and goals in life. What or who may be in the way of achieving your goals in life? What are you ready to release from your life in order to create space for something new? This could be a job, relationship, type of food, emotion, responsibility, limiting belief, time commitment, chore, or otherwise. Write down as many things as you can think of that are standing in between you and your success and happiness.

Then, commit to let it go.

8. Trim the Excess Fat from Your Calendar

After you’ve answered the tough questions and decided on what you want to let go of in your life, go through your calendar and remove anything that does not align with your highest intention and biggest priorities. If it’s not serving you, release it and take it off your calendar to create space for the things that light you up and move you forward in the right ways.

9. Say No

Now that you’ve detoxed your calendar of non-essentials, don’t add anything new that you don’t wish you add!

If you have a habit of being a people pleaser, or if you often find yourself overbooked or overwhelmed because you too-quickly say yes to requests for your time, take heed. While saying NO is very difficult for some people, it’s one of the most effective ways to keep your mind clutter and stress in check.

10. Visualize

Come back to your intention from Step 1, and imagine that this intention is already part of your life. Visualize for a moment that you’ve already embodied it fully. As if you’ve already integrated this intention into every area of your life, notice all of the details that come along with this. Observe how you feel in this imagined future and explore what your life looks like, with this intention being brought to life.

Whenever you feel like you need to de-stress, de-clutter, and detox your mind, follow these 10 steps and enjoy the clarity that follows.