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Every once in a while I reach a point where my mind is filled with so much stuff that I feel that I just can’t move. Stuck, like I’m walking around in quicksand, not really going anywhere. Out of all my techniques I’ve tried, the best one so far I’ve discovered is a twenty minute written meditation.  These are the steps I follow.

1. Open up my Google Doc “Notepad” file.  (I like Google Docs because it automatically saves the document and never crashes.) Note: it’s important that this document is a secure document that no one else will read except you. This gives you the freedom to truly unload.
2. Open up your favorite timer application. I use the free, Apimac Timer for Mac. And set it so that it counts down from 20 minutes. Make sure the alert is audible and that your sound is turned up enough that you can hear it.
3. Start the timer.
4. Close your eyes. (assuming you are a good typist). Bonus points if you’re in a public place as doing atypical things around strangers makes you a stronger person.
5. Start writing everything that’s floating around in your head no matter how seemingly weird and unrelated it is. Force yourself to keep writing, paying no attention to typos or grammar—go for stream of thought. You’ll probably reach points where you run out of things in your mind. It’s empty, already? Yeah, right. If you really have nothing to say, then write, “I don’t know what to say…” over and over again until your mind pops thoughts into your mind. And it will, trust me.  Eventually ideas will start flowing and things will come out. It might even surprise you what you uncover. Just go with it.
6. When the audible alert sounds, open your eyes and be amazed at how much gunk you’ve siphoned out of your mind. Can you really believe all that was up there? Note: if you’d like to keep going, then by all means, keep going. The longer the meditation, the better, but twenty minutes is the least amount of time I would recommend you do this for.
7. Feel a sense of cleanliness and emptiness that this exercise forces you to achieve.

Above is what I wrote out after my twenty minute meditation today. I reached a mental point towards the end similar to the mental experience I get from normal, quiet meditation. Sometimes after this exercise I feel a clear mind and that’s it. And at other times not only do I feel a clear mind, but I feel a sense of extreme clarity and am able to find meaningful, personal realizations in the last few sentences.

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