How to Clear Your Mind
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2019
- Your brain is hard-wired to do all sorts of things when you are not consciously thinking about something. But just because it’s normal for your mind to wander doesn’t mean that it’s always good! Luckily, once you know how it works, you can find ways to control it.
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I'll have to watch this again, I was on default mode.
😂😂
Good one
Same
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Thanks to my depression and self loathing, my 'default mode' is more of a 'myfault' mode'.
nice one, heh
Too real
New Message Oof very true
Hey, we meet again
Gosh darn this is too true
I KNEW it was gonna be meditation!
It's always meditation, meditation is great.
Nice you want a cookie ?
She: clear your mind
Me: *meditates*
meditation was what i was trying to control omfg
Duhhh lol
I keep thinking about this terrible thing and when I’m not thinking about it my mind goes “finally we’re not thinking about that” and then I start to think about it again
Sameeeeeee. Have you find out how to stop it?
it's called Pure O or purely obsessional, which involves intrusive obsessive thought but no sign of outward compulsions
@@rinkagamine3238 best bet is to go to a professional therapist that can retrain your mind through CBT cognitive behavioral therapy. Also exercise mindfulness and meditation regularly. Realize that these thoughts are not you, just a product of how your mind works. If the negative thoughts are bothering you and causing you anxiety, then you and your consciousness/subconscious have extreme opposing values to the thoughts. Realize these thoughts flow through all humans mind, and again they stress you out because they conflict with who you really are and your values.
@@metsrus what do I do if I'm stuck in a fear/anxious/panic attack state that I can't breathe and have space to breathe and process this thing of mine? I've been like this for 2+ years. My body or "reaction" simply fell flat during an intense anxiety that I couldn't have any control over it and couldn't reavt fast enough to overcome the scaring phase, I need knowledge; this is hell.
@@flaviogarza2376 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) will help you deal with these panic attacks. They help you find coping skills and face your fear. Please find a therapist who specializes in CBT near your area, Sage. I would try CBT before taking medications. Stay strong, my friend.
Can't clear your mind if you've lost it
Yes
Well, at least your skull is clear. That's close enough, right?
Edgy
Best comment lol
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I feel as though the SciShow Psych channel is very underrated yet. Just barely above 400k subscribers? You guys make amazing videos and thus deserve much more than that.
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I don’t actually particularly enjoy this channel, because I find it primarily composed of mainstream, American psychology, which is at times almost more neurology than psychology to me, and a completely mind-numbing deal of Freud-bashing, primarily in the comments.
Doubled in four years
It would be interesting to learn how that network relates to ADHD
Was thinking the same exact thing
By eating ass
THIS! So much! I hope they do a follow-up video and talk about that.
I was thinking the same thing as someone who has ADHD!
Focused attention meditation helps people with ADHD to manage it without meds, so Id guess the default network plays a big role
The answer is "meditation" they make it sound so easy
As a person with OCD, GAD, and PTSD, not letting my mind control me, is easier said than done. This explains a lot though! Wow...
Thank you so much for this. I struggle with obsessive thoughts and always have to ask everyone to repeat what they say because I’m always thinking of something. It’s really hard and I think it plays a part in how exhausted I get from day to day. Will try focused attention meditation :)
Damn it same here any tips on how to focus more next time ,i do the same when people talk and ask them to repeat what they just said not becuz i didn't understand but i wasn't listening
This whole day has been kinda foggy and weird for me so before watching this video I decided to sit and focus on my breathing for a few seconds before I started the video so I could properly digest it. It was amazing to see them talking about the effectiveness of this in the video, and how my mind was only focused because I performed that action. I used to gawk at meditation and that kinda stuff, but truly, when I close my eyes and just focus on oxygen entering and exiting my lungs, I open them feeling more aware, happier, and since Ive been doing this for a couple weeks now its amazing to see how it collectively gets better and better and helps me understand what normal and natural feels like. Really y'all, practice this. Its perception changing. Theres is no greater investment, and Im the first person to shoot this kinda stuff down.
I love the default mode network. Doing a study on it at the moment.
Does she look like a female Elon musk or is it just me?
Omfg hahahaha yes
You're not alone
She does laughing out loud
@@jessievandenberg9047 can't unsee it now thanks :-\
i see your mind is wandering when listening to her
Thanks for summing up scientifically, all the discussions around mindfulness, the effectiveness of meditation. Really helpful video.
Exceptionally well explained Doc, thanks!
This is very useful, thanks for doing this episode. I always told people that not thinking is like holding your breath. you confirmed it.
Very helpful video. I really enjoyed this. Thank you for making it.
Everyone needs to watch this, this is so helpful
Thank you so much for this.
You people are modern heroes. You have no idea how much good this is doing. Thank you.
Brit: "Clear your mind."
My mind: "OMG She's wearing a Hogwarts shirt!! I wonder what house she's in! I love Harry Potter so much!!"
I was as excited as you are 😂
Ravenclaw here btw 😉😉
@@saloni.sharma I'm a Gryffindor! :D
I'm pretty sure she's a slytherin, she talked about it on hfs once
I'm I'm ravenclaw☺😀 LOVE HP TO😃
Great work guys!
I’ve found the focused-attention meditation to be the most successful in provoking results for entry-level participants desiring to clear their mind of these flurrying thoughts. I’ve also found leading your meditation with music especially created in the process of composition to aid your journey into this absent mind, and as well as using your breath as a vehicle to lead your current existence working very well, too.
Um. WHAT?! Sorry but not everybody is an avid meditator, plz explain in layman terms???
I started meditating daily because I was depressed and couldn't stop thinking about all the things that went "wrong" in my life. I was a few months in when suddenly Christmas holidays threw my daily routine all over the place and I stopped. I got depressed again really fast and so I realized how important meditation has become for me. There is nothing wrong with your life, your thoughts are the problem.
So how did you deal with negative thoughts
Thank you for this comment ❤
Thanks for the fantastic video!
Thanks, Doc!
This is somewhat related to hypnosis (the therapeutic kind, not the stage "cluck like a chicken" kind). I was never a big believer in hypnosis, and then my therapist (who happened to also be a licensed hypnotherapist) did it with me. It's not the smoke-and-mirrors you tend to think of; it's more like guided meditation. I ended up so relaxed that my head actually drooped and 30 minutes felt like 5. It's really just finding something to focus on -- like the therapist's voice, or an image, or your breathing -- so that other thoughts can't sneak in. I really wish I was better at doing it on my own, but I'm too impatient and not self-disciplined enough; when my mind wanders, I'm just like, "Well, okay, that didn't work, let's check CZcams!" >_
LOVED THIS ONE!!
I think knowing why your brain does what it does you can also control anxiety. 🙏🏽💕Really nice informational video.
Where are you from
This woman fkn rocks, love this channel.
Thank you .. great explaination
To me, meditation is not blocking the default mode network, it is basically consciously entertaining even the slightest of the thought and it works just amazingly.
Very informative thank you❤
Thank you, this widened my knoeledge about meditation 😊
thanks for the help
Great video!!
all science behind wisdom of meditation practice packed in 5min long video. Awesome!
This helped so much
Thank u darling for this detailed information I hope it will work
thanks for this. was interesting... but now I just need to practice this re-focussing thing.
oh man thanks! my psychologist focuses on meta-cognitive psychology and every time we talk he tries make me do this thing and it's just so f-ing difficult! i've needed to hear it explained in a different way to understand better so thank you~~~~
I need this. Iw watched something extremely scary and I kept feeling like I was going to get attacked in my sleep so I couldn't sleep . Thank you.
Thanks!
How to clear your mind: stop watching CZcams videos on how to clear your mind at 2:30 in the morning
Kj16V it’s literally almost 2am rn too😂
Almost 4 am, cant fall asleep because I have a song stuck in my head and it wont go out
@@synner69420 Think about the end of the song... It subsides...
Sampuran Chakraborty it’s actually 2:18
O_o
thanks for the vid
Awesome video and awesome T-shirt :)
heyyy a new sci-show!! i subscribe!!
Me: how to clear your mind
Others: meditate
Me:how to meditate
Others:clear your mine
Me : TRIGGERED
You clear your mind by making up a random word ( it helps if it is long and random for eg: Vlucimenum) and repeating that in your mind for about 10 mins and if your mind wanders go back to that word. It will clear your mind and you’ll feel great. Try it at least every two days for a continuous clear mind.
When she said "Try this, Clear your mind"
And mine honestly went blank.
I'd have to actively think of something to be able to think/visualize something.
Anyone else like this...?
I'm kinda jealous. as much as my obsessive-compulsive disorder helps in solving problems and preventing me from getting bored, it does sometimes get in the way of relaxation and focus. to at least sometimes be able to turn off the thoughts would be a great improvement in life.
Me lol
Excellent
Nice lesson
A channel called What I've Learned, has all kinds of wild claims about a lot of things. He's pretty good at hyping them up too. They seem reasonable, but I always come here to double check him.
I've been waiting for you guys to make this video so I could fact check some of his info on meditation. This didn't cover all the bases, but it makes me a little more confident in his video.
I love his voice and editing style.
He is interesting to watch. At some point I'd like to put together a video cross referencing all his stuff with Sci Show. Dates need to be included too though because some of the older stuff from either could be outdated info.
Honest, her voice would be great for mindful meditations... listening to her is so calming in and of itself.
Great vid
Great video
I already knew this ->
One day I felt very dizzy after work and I tried clear my mind and it's hard, few seconds later I take a deep breath and suddenly able to clear my mind.
Done. Thanks aphantasia 👌 had to be good for something.
Thanks for this lovely, my default mode network has become my boss I'm geared up to become it's boss rather, and that quest brought me to your video.
I never even thought to wonder if there was a name or classification for those moment. What a neat circuit we have in our skulls!
Default mode (When not thinking) regions active are:
-Memory
-Planning
-Language
-Social Cues
-Consciousness
The mind, when used correctly and to its highest potential, is what makes those reach those things which exceed all our grasp.
Thanks
I feel like when I deal with my fear and face it. My mind is LITTERLY running towards all the things I can’t stop, I can’t stop my enxiety it, I start breathing slower which gets me so nervous that I’m breathing slower and I start to panic. I realized that the first reason I fear all my fears is bec I can’t clear my mind while I’m facing it. So I’m not sure meditation would help since...I can’t focus on my breathing or I’ll have enxiety attack
Brilliant
Good one
Just yesterday I had my final driving exam. I am not nervous, but my mind shifted all the time, so I failed multiple times. I am not good at meditation and you cannot take anti-anxiety pills before driving. However, I hacked it, not in a most healthy way, but it worked - I took an anti-anxiety pill just before bedtime, so I did get some sleep and in the morning woke up kinda... not caring. Not good in general, but it at least worked this time.
Try practicing Mindfulness a few times or do 2 elephant (big) tasks and 3 rabbit (little) tasks per day. It may wire your brain and help with your activities. Good work on the test.
Been struggling with addiction. This explains it. But now, still lots of work to do.
Damn you got presence and some serious presentation skills
Develop alzheimer's. That's how I clear my mind.
@Main Street Boxer Does it have to be funny if it's accurate?
I guess this is okay, if you actually have Alzheimer's
Watch trash TV and job is done.
😂
smart
Ive done this with Chakra mediation 😊 so much fun. Some People also naturally do this when laying on a sunny nice secluded beach. That's why a lot of people like the beach. 😊
Take a deep breath. Calm your mind. You know what is best. What is best is you comply. Compliance will be rewarded.
You're a captain in the ranks of Hydra, aren't you? I CAUGHT YOU RED-HANDED... or Red Skulled...
Sounds like dictatorship propaganda but ok
#Captain Obvious That made me laugh out loud 😆
Hail Hydra!!
Pirate's Piggy SAY IT, ITS THE INTERENT
Focused-attention meditation. I'll look into that after I finish my euro hw.
Easiest way for me to do this was cosmologically. If you want to imagine 'nothing' then imagine what exists beyond the borders of known space and its an on-demand experience. It's like that moment you get where you're in a big, empty hall somewhere and someone else has a meeting they're supposed to be at and all you have to do for the next hour is loiter around in unexplored places for a while.
Which stands in stark contrast to coming home after the work or whatever it was you were supposed to be doing and seeing faces on the screen as they are; pre-recordings, editted, images of the past someone made to make some money. You can even look at the screen from the top or at the side, see all the light hitting the wall where it'd otherwise have you immersed, knowing that somewhere out there; possibly on the other side of the planet, the content creators could be having their lunch or doing other mundane chores as they collect royalties for footage.
Then realizing that you are in fact, alone.
Some aren't, and some are, what's that like? Hundreds of people could be reading this comment. To them, I'm now talking to you. But who is you? Interesting toy isn't it?
You heard about the nothing box?
It’s my favorite, box I love it.
Loved your T-shirt
I find clearing my mind fairly easy. Did it fast within the moments told to in the video.
I just drop everything and relax as I slow my breathing and stare blankly into the distance... sometimes drool. (But thoughts automatically come in when I drool telling me to stop the drooling.) So I feel its possible for me the only thoughts that come in during the time are inate stuff. But when theres no inate stuff I can think of absolutely nothing and stare blankly into the distance.
Curious if theres others out there who found clearing your mind easy. I always felt through life that I felt pretty disconnected to reality. More up in the clouds than down to earth.
I had the same as ur experience and it's literally the worse
This helped me out, 😊
What happens when one kind off zones out and just stares blank without conscious thinking? Like daydreaming without dreaming? Is this meditation, or is this "default"?
Stilles I need to know the answer for this. I’m just gonna reply so I can get a notification when someone else answers this.
@@gav7497 same!
It's the default. The default is the default because if you let the executive type drift away, the brain defaults to the default (this answer has been brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department) I mean, as they said in the video, the executive network becomes active when you actively and willingly pay attention to something. You are doing the opposite of being attentive when you daydream. You have trains of thought when you daydream but that is not the same as being focused. During a daydream you are unaware of many things, including your own self, and at the end you can't recall half of what you have been thinking about or why. The other mode is *all about* being aware of and recalling everything clearly.
I have been doing mindfulness meditation rather regularly for a few years. It's more about giving priority to the executive network in order to spy on the default network, as a passive but hyper-aware observer. Daydreaming is like rolling down a hill, meditation is definitely more like climbing one.
@@whiteraven90 +10000 for the Department of Redundancy Department
Definitely not meditation...meditation is more of a conscious effort..
But this thing... It happens to most people... And i really wanna know why 🤔
Everything makes sense now 🤯
I love your shirt!
if i try to clear my mind my mind ends up listening to everything around me which idk if that means my mind is cleared or if my mind is replaying everything im hearing
Same :(
Y’all woke up in the middle of the night in absolute terror, terror understands what’s going on inside my heads, no one is willing to learn, I’m going stir crazy and I feel like the answer is so simple but I’m making it worse for myself, this is worse than having my leg amputated with no numbing agent, I want to die. I don’t know how to get my mind out of the death gutter I’m beginning to scare even myself.
Nice T-shirt by the way!
I loved that t-shirt ^^
I’ve heard taking 20 mins out of your day just to do nothing and sit in silence can help with sleep. Hoping it’s true.
I've yet to find any benefit to it but I can get my brain in a very quiet mode. And not thru meditation but active inner voice shut-down. Easyest to obtain in low white noise. Just like saying to myself "quiet now."
Snapping out of it feels dazzling, startling, not restful or refreshing.
The key is to not let it be the boss of you. This hit hard
I was watching a video to learn how to meditate just 10 minutes ago. I'm taking this as a sign lol!
Default mode network is like an auto pilot state. When not in conscious, subconscious or unconscious take place. Correct me if im wrong.
Why, every time I try to make a test all of the series I ever watched in Netflix start playing in my head???
My default network mode seems to be off, as I am constantly hungry when I'm not focusing on anything in particular
I love your shirt you are a potterhead as well :)
Cool pendant!
Very calming having this high strung tree stump dishing advice. A+ Meditate on getting off cheeseburgers.
Does anyone have any resources for this meditation. Can you learn it at home or does it require professional instruction?
I read some articles about meditation (don´t remember which ones though..) and taught it to myself, most of my friends did the same.
I´ll have to add to that that learning meditation can be really hard and frustrating because your mind will wander a lot, but don´t let it get you down, the beautiful thing is that everyone can do it if they try.
Internet Gnom Thank you. I think it’s time for me to give this a try.
Greg Hartwick Best of luck! :D
You can learn meditation at home, you just have to want it.
The process is easy. You need 1 thing to focus on. It might be visual or auditory stimuli like a candle light or certain repeating sound.
The focus on ones breath works as well.
Just when your brain starts to wander, go back to original task.
Repeating that will make you better at it, until you practically dont wander for hours no problem.
There are also hundreds or guided meditation videos and podcasts, makes it easier for a beginner. I've found them helpful.
I couldn't find the follow-up study you referred to at 3:36; "Researchers have found that experienced meditators have stronger connections between their default mode network and areas responsible for attention".
I'd like to know what specific areas are responsible for attention. If you could link the study, I would appreciate that very much :)
We are not our thoughts, we are the spaces between our thoughts.
When you spend your entire life drowning in the chattering of the monkey brain, you cannot truly be who you are...
Anxiety, depression, worry, doubt... all these things are thoughts. Thoughts which cause real harm and in turn go from being thoughts to pathological illness altering physical traits in the body and brain...
Empty your mind of thought, and you can be you, without those lies and distractions.
With practice, you can easily maintain an empty mind for hours on end, without more than a few errant thoughts passing by, which you observe and let pass without holding onto them.
the key to learning to find and then live in an empty minded state is to first seek to focus it, to get your mind filled.
Like breathing, a full lung is easier to empty, and an empty lung is easier to fill.
And most people can figure out how to focus without much practice.
The short directions are -
Relax, focus on breathing, as you breathe in, visualize something like a circle or triangle in a black empty space. As you breathe inward subvocally say the name of the object and the visualization becomes brighter and more solid, when you breathe out, let it grow dimmer. As you breathe out, say the name of the symbol or shape, and do this over and over.
At some point, all your attention should be focused on just doing this.
When you feel (not think) that you are focused... Breath in one last time AAAALLLLL the way to the point where you can't help but let it out (don't hurt yourself), and make the symbol as bright as you can in your mind, and say it inside your mind as loud as you can, and then exhale. when you exhale say the word one last time and let the image fade into black, and for at least a moment, you will likely experience a second or two of total stillness with no thoughts at all.
doing this once is all it takes to help you find the emptiness, and each time you do it will take less and less effort.
After a while, it becomes a natural thing and you don't need to hold it or do it on purpose.
Ha! From your diction I can clearly see you've spent time with meditation coaches/gurus
@@xxportalxx. a few. I'm most fond of Alan Watts digital ghost.
Thankyou mam ☺️
MY brain's like this 24/7. It's not depressive thoughts or anything like that, although sometimes I do from overthinking. It's my thoughts go to the past and then the future. It's annoying when I need to focus and face forward. It's always hard to be positive with these thoughts in my head.
Same
Same, if I have a clear mind I can focus on reaching my best potential
Meditation, for me, feels like making the default mode subconscious. Leaving a quiet place to exist.