The Art Of Being Alone

Okay weird question but tell me honestly, has that ever happened to you that someone presented your favorite food and you ate more than your body could take? And then you felt so stuffed that even breathing became like a task. Now, if someone asks you to walk 10 km in such a situation, would you be able to?

Probably not. And | am speaking this from experience.

Something similar happens with our brains. Excessive eating can make you feel tired, sluggish, or exhausted. And if you eat junk then sometimes it even causes vomiting, stomach ache, or worse food poisoning. All in all, it's very obvious that what you eat, you will produce. In simple words, junk in, junk out. So, it's safe to say that by eating a burger, pizza, and fries every day, you cannot expect to build a healthy body, right?

So, you are smart enough to understand this much. Okay, good.

| expect you also understand that you cannot force your body to eat constantly for 2 hours. | mean, it's a dumb question but | am just making sure that we are on the same page. You eat, you feel stuffed and then you don't eat for another 4-5 hours until you feel hungry again, right?

Well, then why do you treat your brain like a dustbin? Why do you keep consuming content (either through social media/videos/books) like your brain can take it all consistently for hours? Why do you expect your brain to work creatively when it's so filled with garbage that even thinking straight feels like a task beyond your capacity?

Just as eating junk food doesn't give you abs and a healthy body, similarly, consuming junk-worthy content wouldn't make you any smarter. And just as you don't feed your body with food for hours, similarly, you cannot feed your brain with information and knowledge or it will extract every bit of mental power and make your brain sluggish or drowsy.

I don't know how to make it simpler but your mind will give you what you give to it. Junk in, junk out. And by consistently feeding your brain for hours, you will end up destroying your basic mental capacity. Just as your body needs the time to digest what you eat, your brain also needs the time to digest what you consume.

And that time is the period of 'conscious solitude' where you choose to sit alone to let your brain digest whatever you consumed without any disturbance or external noise. There is so much information and content out there, so much advice and hacks, and so

many people and their own different opinions and perceptions that if you don't put a break on it, you will end up drowning in this vast sea. We are constantly consuming information from the outside world. But we never give our minds enough rest to digest what we have consumed. You are surrounded by so much information, opinions, and data that even you don't know what's entering in your mind. We listen to something powerful or something said powerfully and start believing it without using our brains. It doesn't matter what the content is, positive or negative. What matters is YOU DON'T THINK ANYMORE. YouTubers, Podcasters, Authors, or Social media influencers are also people, not God. Hence, it is not essential that what they say is correct or suitable for your life. Eliminate what doesn't make sense to you. Don't just consume content and say, 'Oh my god, what a video or what a podcast'

THINK BEFORE YOU LET ANY ADVICE OR THOUGHT TO SIT IN YOUR MIND.

If you never leave your mind alone and constantly fill it with garbage and others' opinions, you will be nothing but a collection of your external world. There is a world inside you too that you need to travel and explore. Your mind has a unique thoupay attention to. Tell me, if you never sit alone to listen to the voice inside you, how will you ever know what is going on inside you?

The thoughts that enter your mind when you are alone and disconnected from the world are the thoughts that actually reflect who you are, what matters to you, and what's your thought process.

Sitting alone is tough. | know. Especially for people who have a great deal of practice in laughing at stupid TikTok videos that wouldn't matter after a second. You have trained your mind to live on cheap entertainment. You have trained your mind to numb itself as you waste another 2 hours scrolling social media. You don't feel tired when you see your mobile screen for hours but you feel tired when it comes to studying, learning new things, or working on the real stuff. Then you feel distracted. Why? Because that's how things are designed. You don't need to focus on laughing at stupid jokes you see on social media or be lost among trending videos. That's why it's easier to enjoy social media. And that's the same reason why your mental muscles are getting weaker.

"You and I are practicing every day to not practice focus."

Read that again.

All | can say is, sitting alone will be tough initially. But it is the need of the hour as well. You need to give your brain the time to digest what you consumed. Reflect on what is important and delete what's not. So that there is enough Space again to feed your brain again. You need to give your mind the time to reset and let it be alone for a while to create your own world that is unique, artistic, and known only to you. You need to choose to sit in solitude, feeling the freedom that comes with your company, and let your mind take some rest from the noise of the external world.ght process and opinions as well that you shouldOtherwise, as | said earlier, you will end up becoming an average of your surroundings. The time you spend with yourself will help you to filter out the garbage, curate your own opinions, analyze your thoughts and study your beliefs. In simple words,

"Detox your brain every day."