Our own thoughts can either empower or disempower us, so it is essential to be mindful of your self-talk. The way you talk to yourself and invest your time, action, and energy, creates your reality. In order to enhance your mental focus and develop strong willpower, you must learn to control your mind, thoughts, and emotions. You must feed your mind with enriching and positive thoughts that empower you and everyone around you. And the first step to do that is through brain power.
The brain isn’t static and you have the power to direct the needful change in the way you think, and release your emotions and actions. If you are mentally strong, nothing can beat or stop you. It is the mental power that channelizes your body, spirit, and emotions. What you need is the right direction from your brain to carry forward yourself either in an easy or difficult phase. Here are some powerful brain hacks that can help you in boosting your mental power and spirit!
Your 30 Minutes a Day
It is pivotal to keep yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually active. You can make simple habits a part of your daily schedule such as setting 30 minutes a day for yourself. You can pick any of the following suggestions, or a combination of a few.
- Taking simple brisk walks or exercises like yoga, Zumba
- Engaging in meditation, listening to ambient music
- Taking adequate rest and sleep,
- Speed reading, reading out loud and confidently,
- Mind-mapping, practicing awareness, quizzing yourself, solving puzzles,
- Revitalizing creativity, playing memory booster games,
- Learning new skills,
- Building vocabulary,
- Maintaining cleanliness,
- Practicing detachment with regard to your emotions,
- Learning to drag out the negative baggage,
- Silencing your mind, controlling the mind from wandering,
- Letting go of your emotions by writing them down,
- Striking a power pose,
- Practicing kindness, happiness, and spirituality can bring out fruitful upshots.
Never Doubt Yourself
There is a need to fire up your inner saboteur by “innercising”. First up is to replace the defeating negative thoughts with empowering positive thoughts. Challenges are part of life and overcoming them just requires your right thinking, patience, hard work, smartness, effort, and good deeds.
Secondly, try to bring out your focus on the good and bright sides of life. For example, if you find yourself thinking the grass is greener on the other side, then stop staring, comparing, and complaining. It’s better to start watering the grass you are standing on. You know what I mean.
Unless you try to overcome the difficulties, you won’t really know about your latent capabilities, skill sets, potentials, and inner spark. Your sheer strength of conviction is how you shut down the voice in your head that says, “I can’t or I’m not good enough”. Progress isn’t achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
Reboot to Boost Up Your Mood
One of the most powerful brain-hacking activities is to elevate your mood.
From dancing, singing, and listening to music to working out, playing a sport, getting outdoors, and interacting with your loved ones, you will find that the simple acts of smiling, giving compliments, and having friends can actually lift up your moods.
What’s more, by turning off the blues, and turning on the adventure mode by taking a walk/jog/run in the park can reboot your mood. Alternatively, some people prefer lighting a candle to relax, eating mood-boosting foods, laughing it off by watching comedy shows on the TV, etc. Such time alone can also be a positive channel for hacking your brain waves.
Not only will you be disconnecting from the negativity, changing your perspectives, letting go of grudges, choosing joy in every single moment of happiness, and finding a self-care ritual, but you will also reboot your power of thinking. You can also troubleshoot your problems by helping someone out in need and incorporating random acts of kindness in your everyday life.
Flip off Your Thoughts in 5 Seconds
Another brain hack is by turning off your thoughts in 5 seconds. You can revamp your performance, get rid of negative thoughts, purge bad habits, and beat procrastination by directing your brain to flip off your thoughts with a strong command 5-4-3-2-1-Action!
Mel Robbins’ 5 Second Rule helps in laying all your focus on the goal that you are trying to achieve. As you count from 5 to 1, you are hacking your brain to come up with reasons to activate yourself and do the task you want to complete.
Learn to Mind Yourself
The hectic lives we are living, with omnipresent distractions, don’t give us much time to reflect upon ourselves. Rather than being absorbed by distractions, we should give ourselves moments to ask ourselves how we are doing. Learn to be mindful of yourself by asking these questions:
- Am I physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted?
- Can I snatch up some minutes of rest?
- How can I learn to say “no”?
You need to learn and practice mindfulness by journaling, listening to your body and taking adequate rest, decluttering your personal and professional space are some of the ways. Other ways brain hacking with mindfulness are using positive affirmations, reading voraciously, and self-care daily is essential in order to de-stress.
Ignite Your Passion
When you work on your passion, you release vibrant energy and vibes that give you a sense of purpose and create new brain waves. Taking out some time for your passion by driving out the distractions or useless things from your schedule can reawaken your passion. Surrounding yourself with the right people, remaining eager to learn new things, embracing new adventures, overcome your fears are some of the ways to ignite your passion.
Wrapping up
Finally, understand that the brain is the most important part of your body. It’s up to you to help make it flourish and be a channel for positive thoughts. With powerful brain hacks and techniques, you will be able to make it a limitless tool for building a better life for yourself. So why not help yourself create a positive and healthy environment for your mental health?
Author Riya Gulati
Qualifications: LL.M (Intellectual Property & Information Technology) from University College Dublin (Ireland) + BA.LLB from Bharati Vidyapeeth Deemed University (India).
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