Increase Your Mental Clarity in Just 15 Minutes
Today I’m going to share a simple exercise I use to quickly get mental clarity. You will find this very useful for different purposes, such as to:
- Clear your head (especially if your mind is feeling cluttered)
- Calm yourself down from a restless, troubled or stressed state
- Free up mental energy (if you are feeling tired)
I’ve been doing this of late and found it to be incredibly helpful. It’s also the same exercise I recommend to my clients to clear up mental blockages.
How It Works – Via Increasing Mental RAM
Imagine your brain as a computer. Every computer has RAM which determines its processing capacity. The more applications the computer is running, the more RAM is used and the slower your computer gets. If you have used resource-intensive programs such as 3D Max Studio or played graphic-intensive games like World of Warcraft or Halo before, closing unwanted applications frees up RAM for these programs.
Likewise, our brain has its own RAM too. This RAM is used for all kinds of brain work, from thinking, recalling, analyzing, to the subconscious actions. You want to have as much free RAM as possible to function at top capacity of your brain.
However, not all our RAM is available when we want them. At least half is occupied…
Published Dec 21 2009
Filed: Awareness & Growth, Productivity & GTD
Tags: clarity, mental clutter, RAM





