If my brain had a body, it’d be a swimsuit model.

My brain is always running. It twists and turns and flips and is in constant motion. If it had a body and burned calories, it would be in perfect shape.

I can’t get it to stop.

I’ve tried meditating many times. It lasts about 45 seconds before my mind starts racing again.

“Did you think of this?” “Here’s a great idea!” “They are doing it better than you.” “Have you called themyet?” “What are you going to make for dinner?” “Did you leave the oven on?” “That movie was really good, what was it called again?”

You get the point.

Then I read this article called Remembering to Forget and it really resonated with me. It asks you to imagine if you had no garbage cans in your home. Imagine all of the waste that would build up.

Or if you had no way to remove waste from your body. (ewww, gross, I know!)

Then think about your brain. What do you do with all of the “waste” i.e. thoughts/data in your brain? If you don’t come up with a way to “release” it, it accumulates.

That’s a whole lot of crap in your brain.

And with technology, our brain rarely has the opportunity to just be. It is always being fed with more information. And even when we do have those moments, we have forgotten how to just be.

The other day I stopped to look up at the stars. Something I used to love to do when I was a kid. I could lay there for hours just staring up at the sky. I tried it this weekend. Guess how long it lasted?

One minute. Yep, a whole whoppin’ minute.

Instead I sat and thought about the book I wanted to finish and other things I had to get done. I couldn’t just be.

One of the things that has really helped me is at the beginning of each week and the beginning of each day keeping a planner of all of the things I want to accomplish.

I let this be my brain dump.

Just to release it from my brain and put it on paper. I try to store my thoughts other places as much as possible.

That’s why journaling is so powerful. Take it out of your brain and put it somewhere else.

Give your brain a rest already.

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