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Just as the foods that you consume affect your body positively or negatively in terms of their benefits and harms, your thoughts or memories can also affect your mental state in a positive or negative way. Mental detox means limiting the thoughts, memories, emotions, habits and behaviors that you do not want to remember and that have taken place in your soul and mind. 

You can sometimes unconsciously and unintentionally dive into deep thoughts and re-remember events that caused your heart to break in the past. One of the best ways to get rid of recurring negative thoughts and feelings and lighten up is to do a mental detox. So, how can you do the mental detox that you need to rest your soul and mind and get rid of unwanted feelings and thoughts?

Recognize Your Emotions

In emotional detox, what you basically need to do is not to try to get rid of the emotions that bother you completely but to notice when and under what conditions these emotions arise. To do this, you can start by noting the way and time your emotions arise. As your awareness develops, you can gain the ability to establish a healthy relationship with your emotions without suppressing them. 

When you can identify an experience that has caused you anxiety in the past, you can feel more secure when you encounter similar situations. Similarly, when you feel angry, you can develop a constructive approach by understanding the needs underlying this emotion. What is important for an effective mental detox is not to judge and try to eliminate unwanted emotions but to try to recognize and make sense of them.

Get Away from the Things That Distract You

One of the most effective ways to get away from negative emotions and thoughts is to minimize your mental focus and the number of environmental stimuli that distract your attention. In other words, to rearrange and simplify the environment that you live or work in. Clearing your desk at the office, organizing your bookshelves and cabinets at home can help your mind focus on what it really needs. As your living and working environment simplifies, your mind can calm down and settle more easily.

Try to Stay in the Moment

While worrying about the future on one hand, thinking about your past disappointments on the other hand both takes up your time and tires you mentally. Being in such a situation often prevents you from noticing the moment that you are in, making it difficult to stay in the moment. 

However, it is not necessary to completely ignore the past or the future in order to be able to stay in the moment. If thoughts about the past or future are constantly occupying you, you can try to postpone them temporarily. You can set a specific time during the day to deal with these thoughts and try to focus your mind on the present until that time comes.

Mindful breathing, short walks or attempts to focus on the place that you are in can also help you stay in the moment. Such practices can reduce your mental fatigue. They can help you cleanse yourself mentally and spiritually by removing the burden of the past or the uncertainty of the future.

Realize the Source of Your Emotions

If you are someone with a strong sense of empathy, you might be internalizing the feelings of people around you, such as anger, sadness, or disappointment. Bringing other people's feelings into your own world might cause you to perceive these feelings as if you were feeling them yourself without realizing it.

You can ask yourself the question "Does the feeling I am feeling right now belong to me or to someone else?" at regular intervals and develop awareness. Asking yourself these and similar questions can help you distance yourself from the negative feelings of others. It can make it easier for you to calm down by clearing your mind and focus on your own inner peace.

Focus on What You Can Control

Another way to get rid of negative feelings and thoughts is to develop awareness so that you don't spend unnecessary energy on the events that are beyond your control. You can question whether any event or situation that you are in, or encounter can be controlled or uncontrollable by you. If you are faced with something that you cannot change, you should not worry about it and get caught up in negative feelings. You should remind yourself that you need to direct your mind to the areas of your life that you can affect. 

A Nature Vacation Can Be the Most Effective Step to Calm Down and Relax!

Sometimes our minds just need to take a break, turn down the sounds around us and hear our own voices. Taking a short break from the pace of daily life is an effective way to recover mentally and emotionally. In such times, a nature vacation where you can get away from the city and be alone with nature can be a powerful step to reestablish inner balance.

You can choose Elite World Village İstanbul Polonezköy or Elite World Grand Sapanca for a break that can accompany this need. A holiday plan that suits your needs can help you take time for yourself and stay in the moment. You can experience the comfort of spacious rooms that are prepared with care and enhance your day with meals from master chefs and stylish presentations. You can create peaceful moments for yourself at Fit Life SPA & Wellness in Sapanca or Matsu SPA in Polonezköy. Unwind with massage therapies in these special areas that integrate with the serenity of nature. Shortly after, you can be alone with yourself by sipping your herbal tea in a peaceful corner.