Brain Dumping: My Essential Tool to Self Comfort — Part II.
In Part I of this article I covered three main areas;
- Your brain will always push you to react to your thoughts. Trick your mind in case you don’t have an answer.
2. Writing the thoughts down could be more vital in case tricking your mind doesn’t work, and;
3. Brain dumping helps you get committed to what matters the most.
I invite you to read Part I in case you didn’t yet,
Recap: I see brain dumping as an excellent exercise to guard our thoughts of all kinds and get the most out of the best problem-solving machine available to us.
But before jumping to the next brain dumping related-topics, pause for a minute and ask yourself why Brain dumping is an excellent tool to enhance your self-comfort. To answer this, we need to remind ourselves that it’s never good to occupy our brains with too big thoughts or awful ones to dwell on. Remember point no. 1; if you don’t respond to an insignificant thought, your brain will keep pushing hard for a reaction, and you will feel uncomfortable when it happens.
4. Brain Dumping as a tool to understand the way your brain works, and how to change it for better.
Brain dumping could be an excellent exercise to track your maturity, thinking, what makes you happy, and what makes you sad or anxious.
Another reason is to appreciate the history of your growth and changes. I always get impressed when I take a look at my older journals.
When I read my concerns back to when I decided to move full-time to a rural area in Kenya to seek a professional opportunity and how challenging it felt at the beginning Vs. casually journaling about these trips today. With minimal to zero concerns when even traveling to warzones and remote villages. Witnessing how my personality changed throughout the years made me appreciate myself more.
The same applies to writing down your thoughts when you feel sad or disappointed. This documentation gives your future self a reliable tool to deal better with similar situations.
Don’t you feel bad after a big misunderstanding with your spouse, business partner, colleague, or friend? It will happen again, and it’s healthy, but what’s not healthy is not learning from our experiences to guard our brains and think yet respond differently. If you get the chance to write about this experience, what you felt and how you got over it. Reread it in the future, you’ll be proud of yourself.
5. Brain dumping to make more space for critical and innovative thinking.
You will not find the energy and time for innovative and critical thinking when occupying your brain with deadlines and minor tasks. Dump them, and use your calendar, to-do list, notebook, or any other tool to never think about these simple tasks anymore. Free up some space and use your mental abilities for what matters the most.
Do you have endless tasks today? Write them down — a straightforward technique that is very effective.
Please let me know if you have more tips to share with us and whether you find any of these tips helpful.
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