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Declutter Your Mind, Come Home to Yourself

3 min readJun 9, 2025

When your thoughts get too loud, it’s not more thinking you need — it’s space, silence, and softness.

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There’s a quiet kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from work or stress or even lack of sleep. It comes from thinking too much, too often, about too many things.

You wake up tired, even after eight hours. Your brain hums like a computer with too many tabs open. You try to focus — but your thoughts scatter like birds. You’re everywhere and nowhere.

And maybe you tell yourself: I just need to get organized. I need a better to-do list.
But deep down, you know — it’s not your tasks that are messy. It’s your mind.

The Weight of Mental Clutter

We clean our desks. We tidy our rooms. We donate clothes and organize apps. But how often do we stop and ask:
What thoughts have I been carrying that no longer serve me?
What old conversations, unresolved worries, or imagined futures am I hoarding in my head?

Mental clutter doesn’t look like mess. It feels like:

  • Constant background anxiety.
  • Decision fatigue over simple things.
  • Guilt for not doing enough.

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Gholamreza Zare, PhD
Gholamreza Zare, PhD

Written by Gholamreza Zare, PhD

Writer & engineer exploring software, systems, AI, and self-improvement. More at https://amazon.com/author/zare Email: ghrzarea@gmail.com

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