Six Habits to Reduce Brain Confusion and Improve Mental and Intellectual Clarity

We are all looking for ways to build a more meaningful and essential life while reducing things that occupy and distract us.

Brain confusion is often described as an unclear feeling, and common cases of brain confusion include memory impairment, difficulties with concentration and attention, and suffering in speech and oral expression.

Imagine if you could concentrate your mental strength in one bright light beam and direct it like a laser on everything you want to achieve. Most people need help to focus on their business, and when you can't focus on what you're doing, all you're doing will seem more complex and take longer than you want.

Six habits that you must follow to improve mental and intellectual clarity

1. Getting rid of the mess

Chaos leads to stress and psychological tension, as there is a strong link between your surroundings, physical space, and mental or mental space. Hence, chaos is bad for the brain and health because it can lead to a state of low-level and long-term anxiety, so it was unsurprising that Marie Kondo's book, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing, became on bestseller lists.

We are all looking for ways to build a more meaningful life with fewer distractions, so get rid of the chaos in your workplace, desk, and room and you'll send a clear message of calm straight into your brain.

Start tidying up today in small, focused batches because you will not be able to clean your surroundings and all your places in one day. So, you have to start cleaning slowly and according to small steps to turn it into a daily habit for you that always accompanies you, and prepare yourself for success by developing a plan and targeting specific areas to arrange, clean and organize them over a long period of time.

2. Focus on only one task

It is a mistake to view the ability to carry out many tasks simultaneously as a badge of honor. Switching between different tasks comes at a high cost because your focus suffers when you carry out many tasks at the same time.

In addition to that, it jeopardizes the actual amount of time you spend on productive work because you're constantly emptying and reloading your hippocampus, which is responsible for storing short-term memories.

Research also shows that switching between different tasks burns more calories, leading to brain fatigue and limiting your overall ability to work and think productively.

Therefore, you must commit to executing each task you have separately, one after the other, giving each of them the necessary time for it while getting rid of things that are likely to distract you and divert your attention before you delve into the completion of one of your important tasks such as applying the silent mode on your mobile phone, or turning off alerts from your email. This is to avoid being tempted to switch between tasks.

You can use the 3 to 1 method by narrowing down your most important tasks to just three. Then, focus fully on just one task for a certain period of time, and allow yourself to alternate between those three tasks in completing them, giving yourself a good balance of variety and unique focus.

3. Let go of emergency distractions

Interruptions negatively affect your productivity, creativity, and great ideas that may come to your mind, as it destroys and spoils the productivity wheel. Urgent and unimportant tasks are major distractions. Distractions that appear at the last minute are not necessarily considered priorities. Sometimes the necessary and essential tasks are clear before your eyes, but you neglect them to devote yourself to urgent matters, but it is not important. So, you have to stop doing this and do the exact opposite, as it is one of the only ways to control your time.

Your ability to distinguish between urgent and important tasks has much to do with your success. Necessary and important tasks are the things that contribute to your long-term goals, values, and goals, and distinguishing between these differences is simple enough to do just once, but implementing it consistently can be very difficult.

4. Stop nurturing your comfort

Rest provides us with a state of mental safety. When you are comfortable and feel that everything in your life is fine, your brain can release chemicals, such as dopamine and serotonin, which help spread feelings of happiness within you, but rest is harmful to the brain in the long run because the connections between brain neurons that maintain the flow of information and its flow shrink or disappear completely in the absence of stimulation of dendrites (which are the branches in neurons that branch out from the cytoplasm of the cell) brain neurons, as happens in long resting states.

An active life increases the synapses between the dendrites of neurons, as well as the brain's regenerative capacity known as plasticity (synaptic plasticity is the ability of synapses between neurons to further strengthen or weaken over time in response to increased or decreased activity).

Psychiatrist Norman Doidge says in his book, The Brain That Changes Itself: “Lack of intensive education and neglect leads to the weakening and decay of synaptic plasticity systems.” Michael Merzenich is a neuroscientist, pioneer in synaptic plasticity research, and author of Soft-wired: How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Can Change Your Life Life).

Michael finds that going beyond the norm is extremely important for brain health. The search for new experiences and adventures, learning new skills as well, and making way for modern ideas to enter our livesinspires, motivates, and educates us in a way that improves our mental and mental clarity.

5. Refrain from sitting still for long periods

Sitting all day is very dangerous. Like it or not, physical activity has potent and practical effects on your brain and mood. The brain is often described as looking like a muscle. It should always be exercised for better mental performance, and research shows that physical movement and physical activity can improve your cognitive functions.

30-45 minutes of brisk walking three times a week can help avoid fatigue and mental dullness. What we do with our bodies affects our mental abilities and faculties. So, find something you enjoy and then get up and do it, and most importantly, build a habit for yourself.

6. Stop consuming media and start creating instead

It is very easy to consume ready-made content, as you are then a passive, ineffective, and relaxed person as well. But every piece of the infinite content you consume turns off some of the content you could have created yourself. So, you have to limit your media consumption, and instead follow and adopt the habit of creativity in your life and avoid the noise that gradually creeps into your eyes and ears.

Always ask yourself if this media enriches or benefits your life in any way and if all of the information you receive through it makes you more action-oriented, efficient, or moving forward in any significant or real way.

In conclusion

Let your creativity determine your media consumption, let your curiosity lead you to discover and pursue something you care deeply about, and take the time to create something unique and extraordinary. The goal is to get lost in a sea of amazement, wondering and wondering as you did in your childhood. And when you achieve that feeling as a result of your activity, keep it forever.