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5 reasons why you need to empty your mind

by Vikram Anand
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Bruce Lee in one of his interviews talks about emptying your mind and to be like water.

This statement has a great philosophy of life. Our mind is crowded with thousands of thoughts per minute. They distract us from our focus, disturbs us and make our life miserable.
So you can understand why it is important to empty your mind from the avalanche of thoughts. Here are the 5 major reasons to emphasize my point:

1. You cannot make right decisions if your mind is constantly flooded with thoughts because most of these thoughts are not desirable

2. With mind full of thoughts, it is very difficult to concentrate on something

3. As the old adage goes, "As your thoughts are, so are your words and actions". If there are too many thoughts going on in your mind then it affects your communication, because you remain confused over what to say.

4. Your learning curve gets affected for obvious reasons

5. You cannot remain in complete control of yourself.

Once you learn the art of emptying your mind, you'll have a better control over yourself and your life!
#empty #mind #reasons
  • Profile picture of the author DFearon
    Meditation for a minimum of 20 minutes a day is a life changer. The process of learning to stop thinking is possibly one of the most difficult things I've done haha


    But completely agree with your post, the sound of silence is a real wonder.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketingQuotes101
      Originally Posted by DFearon View Post

      Meditation for a minimum of 20 minutes a day is a life changer. The process of learning to stop thinking is possibly one of the most difficult things I've done haha


      But completely agree with your post, the sound of silence is a real wonder.
      I found out the effects of meditation and they're great, but I've always struggled to create a habit of it. I have even been to Vipassana retreat and I'd recommend it to everyone interested in meditation. But the key is to consistently practice it day in, day out.

      Any tips?
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      • Profile picture of the author Vikram Anand
        Originally Posted by MarketingQuotes101 View Post

        I found out the effects of meditation and they're great, but I've always struggled to create a habit of it. I have even been to Vipassana retreat and I'd recommend it to everyone interested in meditation. But the key is to consistently practice it day in, day out.

        Any tips?
        Even I have been a practitioner of Vipassana. Been through the rigorous 10 days meditation course at one of their retreat center. But simply attending the course is not enough. You need to practice it.

        My practice has been every morning for half hr. In addition I keep referring to the videos of the discourses which you can find on Youtube.

        This simple discipline has been helping me to stay connected to the meditation mode.

        You may try out the same.
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  • Profile picture of the author zarrylopez
    We really need to empty our minds every once in a while.

    We really can't think through if our mind is full of unnecessary thoughts.

    W should free our mind from negativity and replace it with positive ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sara20
    Hello guys, I agree with this rules! I think that we can do everything, and only our afraids, and a lot of minds can change our happiness! Also, I would like to share with the best rules in my life!
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  • Profile picture of the author camohit
    The ideas are communicated to us through the medium of intuition, urge whatever u call. If our mind is not empty we fail to understand the message. Hence its another important reason why we keep our mind clutter free and practice silence.
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  • Profile picture of the author Useful Survival Tools
    Just exactly what I need as of this moment. Thanks for this!
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    • Profile picture of the author Dianad
      The exercise is good, but it would be best to solve the reason why one's mind is flooded with thoughts, especially because it is not easy to meditate while your doing something important and your mind starts to flood 😂
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  • Profile picture of the author PatrickPhan
    Thanks for this !
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  • Profile picture of the author hyacinthp
    Thanks for sharing this thread.

    I'm just new here so it's really great start to read something like this.

    I really need this kind of reading right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author rialopez
    I totally agree with your reasons.

    We really do need to free our mind.

    We cannot think clearly if our minds are clouded with unnecessary thoughts.
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  • Profile picture of the author zoeyamey
    Good point.

    I couldn't agree more with everything you said especially with the first two.

    You really can't concentrate if you have a mind full of thoughts.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarkYoung
    Great post, thanks for sharing your helpful insight with the rest of us.
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  • Profile picture of the author briannaemm
    I could totally relate to this post.

    Seriously. We really need to free our our minds.

    We really need to getaway sometimes.
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  • Profile picture of the author Securex
    It's right. Sometimes we need to throw away all our thought.
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  • Profile picture of the author DiegoRMS
    Awesome post, love Bruce lee.

    Meditation is huge in helping with this
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