February 2021 - The Future Mindset

When The Motivation Of The Mind Decreases

In today’s article how to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind.

Have you ever been doing well and feeling great for everything in your life to just stall? You ever felt grouchy and reactive and you don’t know why?

This came about in my own life every time I set a goal. There came a point where my motivation and my presence of mind became unfocused. This became a significant problem at certain points in my life, where my performance stopped me from succeeding. It became a frustration, and because I never listened to my subconscious signals, it held me back. One day a solution came to my mind. It was like an update for the brain. Today we will dig deeper to find out how to unlock the motivation to succeed again.

Personal Battles Of Demotivation

How to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind

After setting goals I always felt clear-headed and it allowed me to be motivated to attain my goal. Success came quickly and everyone around enjoyed the new me and everything was going upwards. At last, I’m on the right track I thought.

Then weeks later something gradual happens, my mood starts changing, my energy starts becoming more lethargic, doubt enters the mind, depression hits me, people around me lose trust in my message. What’s going on?

Then the two words that have saved my life enter my mind. MENTAL UPDATE. This is not the sexiest phrase to hear in the world. But it was vital for me to calibrate my mind to move forward again.

The problem that always held me back was,

Not resetting the bar of where to go next
Not looking at what I’ve actually achieved
Comparing my progress to others

With this internal information coming to the surface of my thoughts.

To give me peace of mind I got to work to find a system I could use to stay on an upward curve of my intrinsic motivation. As well as listening to my subconscious mind if signals I could start picking upon.

Below is what I discovered that can help you regain your intrinsic motivation to succeed.

Unlocking The Mind Through Mediation

It’s well known now that meditation can have profound effects on the mind. You have to look no further than a Buddhist monk on the extraordinary discipline and control they have.

Meditation is a learned skill that takes many hours of practice to master or at least in my case still on my journey to mastery.

The reason for meditation was to keep my self-motivation in the mind motivated and on an upward curve. Meditation is a great way for your thoughts to flow out. The reason why it can be difficult to see the downward curve of intrinsic motivation is that my mind can be always busy.

Busy with work, raising children, family, bills etc. The non-stop barrage of always having something to do can stop the subconscious mind from opening into the conscious mind.

Meditation, helped a lot with understanding the feelings I felt, what I needed to do next in my life and what’s actually upsetting me. Immediately after meditating, I would write these thoughts into a journal and got to work on fixing any issues. This helps to change your motivation back into an upward curve motion. Once the problems are fixed. The meditation classes return to a clear mind until the next problems surface from the subconscious minds.

There are many strategies to meditating that you can find on apps and online. For me, it helped by being in solitude and meditating using the breathwork technique of square breathing. Then slowly letting my mind enter deep meditation. I schedule a 30-minute slot to do it but I never time myself and will only come out of it when I’m ready. This for me stops the mind from worrying about time and stays focus.

Unlocking Your Subconscious Mind To Succeed

The subconscious mind is such a powerful friend. It works behind the scenes to allow us to breathe, heal our wounds, stores all our memory’s and everything we have learned. The problem we have is the conscious mind being able to access the information when we need it.

For answering the title of the article, how to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind. Tapping into your subconscious is of importance to find a solution.

Here’s a list of 3 techniques you can apply today,

Having time to be silent to listen to your thoughts
Asking yourself a series of questions to unlock the answers you seek
Write it all down and then analyse the data to find solutions of action

These techniques above helped me stop and take notice of myself and what needed to change in order to regain my motivation to succeed.

How Motivation Can Be Improved Through Journaling

After just writing an article The Surprising Benefits Of Journaling Has On The Mind it would be rude not to include it here. Unlocking your motivation can be powerfully done with a pen and some paper. The form of writing that is journaling is like God speaking down to humans to write religious literature.

The same principle applies here as your subconscious mind is the all-powerful being and your conscious mind is the human who writes down what the subconscious tells us.

Journaling helps so many people in many different ways. To regain my intrinsic motivation it helped to write down all the problems I have in my life, the feelings I feel and the worry I have. Writing them down lifts a weight from you. Which if left untreated can cause serious damage to your motivation.

With all my subconscious thoughts flooding the paper. It’s important now to find a way out. By creating solutions to everything you have written down. This can guide you on the journey you must undertake in your development. I create, to-do list, vision boards, a road map etc. Whatever is best for you, design it and execute it.

Every week or month touch base with the subconscious mind and journal again.

How To Unlock Motivation To Succeed Within The Mind

Hopefully, you know now how to unlock the full potential of your mind. Through meditation, listening to your subconscious and journaling what it says.

To keep your mind motivated there are some great techniques you create as habits to maintain your intrinsic motivation.

Gratitude daily
Exercise daily
Having a diet that boosts the mind
Visualise your future self
Have a victory list of all your achievements
Forgive daily
Positive self talk

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed How to unlock motivation to succeed within the mind. Understanding what motivated me and demotivates has allowed my life to go in the direction I want. Knowing how powerful your subconscious mind is and to utilise it for your benefit. Helps to unlock the mind to do wonderful things that help our overall happiness.

If you are demotivated at the moment try this immediately or contact me @thefuturemindset on Instagram for more guidance. If you’re on a high still practice this above to keep you in that sweet spot for longer.

Keep building that mental strength and we can all change our mindset to change our future.

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Within this article, The surprising benefits of Journaling has on the mind. We will discuss what journaling can do to help with strengthening the mind and helping with any mental health problems like anxiety, depression and stress. We want to finish the article to not only understand the benefits but can go away and have action steps to implement this into your daily habits.

Who Journals Nowadays Anyway

With technological advancements moving forward at a rapid rate there are now many online journal apps that you can use. But there is something about the surprising benefits of journaling has on the mind when writing. Especially the subconscious mind.

Growing up journaling was seen as a feminine thing to do. A teenage girl keeping her deep dark secrets. (Maybe I watched too many films as a kid).

With age, this has become a weapon for my mind. The peace of mind I get from journaling has allowed me to forgive my past, applaud my present achievements and plan my future.

There are more and more people talking and turning to journaling as a form of mental wellbeing where you can document what’s on your mind.

In the past, there have been many amazing stories that have been discovered through journaling. We have Marco Polo’s adventures to Asia documented for Europeans to see the wonders there and Leonardo da Vinci recorded his thoughts in a series of papers and notes on mechanics and astronomy, offering an insight into da Vinci’s thought process.

Many great people have journaled and it’s time to make journaling a mainstay in everyone life.

Scientific Benefits Of Journaling On The Mind

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There have been many scientific studies on the benefits that journaling has on the mind. It ranges from improvement in mood but also improvement in understanding and memory too.

A study by Michael Docherty in 2010 backed this up by showing the effects of daily reflective journaling on understanding the scientific attitude toward the understanding of Newtonian mechanics. This shows that journaling can help with understanding difficult tasks as well as remembering them.

Hayley Phelan research also found out that writing in a journal can lead to better sleep, a stronger immune system, more self-confidence and a higher I.Q.

So there is a high amount of evidence within the scientific community that journaling is amazing for the mind and your overall health.

The Power Of Journaling On Your Mental Health

Benefits Of Journaling For Anxiety

Writing in a journal can have a major impact on your state of mind when dealing with anxiety. As well as clearing your mind, it can also give you the peace of mind you need.

Journalling also allows you to open up and understand what negative thoughts and experiences to best manage in the future. Especially the triggers that set off your anxiety. By enhancing your self-awareness you will find out how to avoid these triggers or plan a way to overcome them.

These strategies have been backed up in studies below by Leclaire, 2008 showing the reduction of anxiety in women and Flinchbaugh, Moore, Chang, & May 2012 found journaling helped students manage their anxiety and helped improve their overall performance in the classroom.

Benefits Of Journaling For Depression

I haven’t yet read a study that has found that journaling can eradicate depression for good. What I have read is that journalling can definitely help the mind reduce depression and help manage it in your daily life.

I personally don’t suffer from depression as a condition but when I’ve had low points where the symptoms of depression have been present. Journalling has surprisingly pulled me out of it quite quickly. Getting to the point of writing was the hardest part but once I did my negative thoughts were erased with solutions and I always feel my mind being clear and focussed.

This shows that journaling can have amazing benefits on our state of mind. Eradicating depression for mild symptoms but also reducing its depression as a condition.

Benefits Of Journaling For Stress Management

Life can offer up all sorts of stresses especially in today’s busy world. Whether it’s parenting, a demanding job or a demanding relationship. Being able to deal with emotions is paramount for mental wellbeing.

Writing about our fears, sadness, anger or any other painful emotions. Helps to shed the weight of these feeling onto the paper. Within a matter of minutes you will feel lighter and calmer as you write. Making this a daily practice allows the weight of stress not to build up over time.

There is good stress of course that gets us moving forward but bad stress when prolonged can do lasting damage on our mnetal health. With suicide rate being highest amongst Men. The culture of man up, tuffen up, emotions are for girls. Has to be a thing of the past as the future men within our society will face the same pain.

Men should be encouraged to journal. This is a life-saving technique that’s completely free. As a man writing this, I implore every man to journal and learn from a majority journalling population of women of how to deal with stress and their emotions.

My own mental health has been saved from the stresses of life. Where now I can easily manage any situation and start everyday fresh and renewed.

It also allows the subconscious mind to focus on positive aspects of your life. Without having to manage negative feelings hidden within the mind. That could erupt without notice.

How You Can Apply Journaling Into Your Life

Have a book just for journaling
Pick a time of day preferably at night when you can journal
Make sure your alone with your thoughts
Make it a priority your favourite hot drink next to you at all times!!
Have planned headings (Mine are Forgiveness, Achievements, I’m grateful for and to-do list)
Have a section where you can just free write about any experience or emotion that’s strong.
Journaling can be about happy things too, make time feel and write those emotions too.

What to do now?

I hope you can take something away from today’s article The Surprising Benefits of Journaling has on the mind

Strengthening the mind should be of importance to everyone. Many great people of the past and present use journaling to understand what’s going on within their mind. Now it’s time for you to understand what’s going on In your mind and use journaling as a way to do it.

Get Journaling!!

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