{"id":3957,"date":"2024-06-13T15:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T15:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2024-06-20T15:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T15:56:44","slug":"tornado-in-your-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/tornado-in-your-brain","title":{"rendered":"Tornado in your brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"article-beginning\">A good way to relieve the overburdened and overwhelmed mind?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Get it out of your head and into the real world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713 An important (or unimportant) task you're worried you'll forget? Write it on a todo list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713 A nagging fear keeping you up at night? Journal about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2713 A compulsive thought that keeps bumping around your brain? Write a story or a poem about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting it off your mind, what we recently heard an ADHD mymind member call \u201cexternalization,\u201d allows you to mentally move on and return to the present moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking it out of your head and into mymind brings an added benefit:&nbsp;<strong>You know it's all in one place where you can easily find it later.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NbDGxv9rMekm2ZjC3KWWUYjQ4AtURA0Uq4EfT2yRl7UM5WAvLPJ7VU2OL315r8BgQgzFQ3cp25BzXOGFKBy5ur4PsfobeNrOfyMSZWDXPL-ToLBuICCxzvXmROLTqeqJf6EfxEo2IzFEvZF3zjq3dWwW2k=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/carbon-media.accelerator.net\/00000000001\/0vI9P92EUCOfQrGWUll46B;1000x_.jpeg?auto=webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jot it down in a Quick Note. Journal about it or freeflow write in Focus Mode. Take a picture of a handwritten note and save it to your mind. If it helps, drag it up to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OTvEnyGNxao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Top of Mind<\/a>&nbsp;to keep it high priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then joyfully, immediately, let it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good way to relieve the overburdened and overwhelmed mind? Get it out of your head and into the real world. \u2713 An important (or unimportant) task you&#8217;re worried you&#8217;ll forget? Write it on a todo list. \u2713 A nagging fear keeping you up at night? Journal about it. \u2713 A compulsive thought that keeps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/3959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}