Declutter Your Mind: Twelve Secret Steps to Clear Mental Clutter for A Lifetime of Peace and Bliss by Michelle Evans Read Free Book Online Page B

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    Be
conscious and mindful of your actions to achieve a serenity of mind.
     
    How many
times have you forgotten you had a cup of coffee sitting beside you? Or picked
up your mug to take a sip only to discover that it’s empty, but you can’t
remember drinking it?
     
    No?
    Try this…
     
    What did you
have for breakfast yesterday morning?
     
    Hold on to
that thought and now describe three things about that meal.
The
     texture
The aroma
The flavor
     
    Did you
manage that?
     
    Chances are
you will not be able to recall how you felt before serving breakfast,
how you felt eating it, and how it made you feel afterwards.
    This is because
you’re not mindful of the things you do, because they are ingrained into your
routine. Going through life in such a routine way on auto-pilot is no more than
going through the motions of life without really experiencing it.
     
    How to Experience
Life for the First Time
     
    Step One:
 Sit yourself down
    Sit
somewhere that makes you feel the most comfortable. Somewhere familiar. Perhaps
at the kitchen table, or your favorite place in the sitting room. Maybe even
lie down on your bed for a few minutes.
     
    Step Two:
Listen to everything
    Intentional
listening is only using one of your five senses. Most of the noise of
everyday living passes by unnoticed, because it’s familiar. Intentionally
listen to all the sounds you hear. Experience the gentle humming sound of
electric currents flowing through your walls. Don’t be scared . Hear the creaking
of the floorboards. The sound of water, whether it be rain hitting your
windows, or drains flushing water away, or even the drip of a leaky faucet. The
more sounds that you hear, the more you’ll begin to question what other sounds you’ve
been missing because you’ve become so accustomed to them.
     
    Step Three:
 Magnify that effect by five
    You’ve become
so accustomed to going through the motions of life that your five senses have
become so ingrained in the routine that you barely notice anything.
     
    Such as how
things…
Sound
Look
Feel
Smell
Taste
     
    All of this adds
up to you missing out on a lot that life has to offer. And it is all because
you have fallen into a rut and are experiencing your life on autopilot.
    That will
begin to change when you practice the steps above. Once you take the time to be
conscious, mindful and aware of what you are doing, and intentionally
experience your surroundings, you will slowly start to feel more connected to
the things you do, and have a better appreciation for life and be more at ease
with yourself.
     

Secret #4:  The Fallacy of
Getting More Things Done in Less Time.
    Abandon
multitasking. Embrace unitasking.
     
    “Multitasking is merely the
opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.”
    -         Steve Uzzell
     
    The fallacy of the human race is
accepting the myth that we can get more done in less time. You can’t. You can
have it all. Just not right now. There’s an old saying that comes to mind here. “He who chases two rabbits, catches none.” The same philosophy applies
to everything in life.
     
    You cannot do two things at once. As much
you may think you’re a great multitasker—you are not. Research estimates that only
2% of the entire population is effective as super-taskers. The rest of us are
falling short and driving ourselves mad trying to get more done in less time.
Your brain is not really wired to do more than one thing at a time. What it
does do is switch back and forth. To get more done, you need to unitask.
     
    Doing one
thing at a time requires prioritization and focus.
    It’s not
that multitasking is a bad thing. It has a time and a place. Reading the
newspaper in the rest room; there’s no danger. Texting while driving, well
that’s a recipe for disaster, and that is why there are laws against it.
    Accept the
fact you cannot multitask. You can only focus on a single task.
     
    How to Unitask
in a Multitasking Centric