What do you do when your mind gets so frazzled you can’t think straight? We’ve all been there, that point in time when even though you know how to do something, your brain just refuses to function properly. You might find yourself standing there with your pen in hand, notebook at the ready and you find it difficult to spell the word ‘what’, or you’re patting yourself down, checking your pockets for your phone while you are actually holding it in your other hand. Or even worse, you’re trying to explain something to someone and you can’t seem to form a coherent thought, even though you know the material like the back of your hand. You try and try, but nothing works, for the moment you are just stuck.
Frustration for me at least, comes from trying to do too much, too fast, or something I know is difficult without enough preparation time. It happens; we’ve all done things and made it a success even when we were under the gun or short on time. So why is this time different? In my opinion, I think sometimes you need to empty your mind of the extra ‘mind trash’ that gets in the way. You know how sometimes you should clean out your computer of old files, some of you might know it as ‘Disk cleanup.’ Well the same thing applies to the human mind. There are so many things that bombard us everyday it’s impossible to process all of it, although sometimes we try anyway. This is usually to our detriment.
If you find yourself in this temporary mind funk, just stop. Seriously. Stop what you are doing. Redirect your thoughts, actions, attention. Obviously this isn't a good idea of you're operating heavy machinery, but we'd all hope you weren't doing that in the first place if total frustration had overtaken you. The idea here would be to 'delete' the unnecessary distractions so you can focus. Short bursts of relaxing meditation can be very helpful. If you're not one for meditation, staring at the wall for two minutes might work. Okay that sounds silly, but if you're stuck in a mind funk, paralyzed by frustration, maybe you need a minute or two just to space out and relax. It can't hurt, right?
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