Coaching practices for How to Clear Your Mind

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• There’s so much piled on me at once that I can’t even find myself underneath it all
• My head is so crammed with half-finished thoughts and open loops and background worries that I can’t focus on anything in front of me
• My mind never stops — one worry leads to the next leads to the next — and I chase every single one down, analyzing and untangling it, so there’s never a moment where a thought just arrives and passes without me grabbing onto it.
• The moment I go quiet to pray, my head fills up
• The noise and demands of everyone around me get inside my head until I have no peace anywhere

Practices that may help

1. Clear a space
   Set down each burden one by one to find the calm place underneath them.
   Focusing and the Felt Sense, Made Practical
2. Write a brain dump to clear cognitive load
   Spend 5-10 minutes writing everything on your mind without editing or organizing — the goal is evacuation, not composition.
   Journaling for Clarity
3. Leaves on a stream visualization
   Imagine each thought as a leaf floating by on a stream — you watch it pass without grabbing it.
   Defusion from Anxious Thoughts
4. Pressing thoughts into the cloud of forgetting
   Put every thought — including holy ones — beneath you, pressing them out of awareness.
   The Cloud of Unknowing: Contemplation Beyond Concepts
5. Retreat to the inner citadel
   When the world presses in, withdraw into your own mind — the one place no one can occupy.
   Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It
6. Yoga nidra as a wind-down
   Use a yoga nidra session to transition from a busy mind into sleep.
   Yoga Nidra & NSDR for Recovery
7. Adopt a passive attitude toward intruding thoughts
   When thoughts arrive, let them pass without judgment and return to the anchor — no fighting, no scoring.
   The Relaxation Response, Made Practical
8. Noble silence — withdrawing sensory and social input
   Reduce external stimulation and social exchange to create the conditions for deeper self-observation.
   Vipassana Meditation, Made Practical
9. Resting in the gap between thoughts
   Notice the small silences between thoughts and let attention settle there.
   The Power of Now, In Practice
10. Write three pages longhand, every morning
    Fill three notebook pages by hand before doing anything else — no editing, no re-reading.
    Morning Pages, Made Practical

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