Issue #19

Why are we always mentally tired?

Some of the best thoughts I get are in the shower.

Being a doctor, I always used to wonder what it is so specific about that activity that makes surprisingly brilliant ideas come to our minds?

Is it warm water? The peace of mind? Or is it that for a brief moment during that time of the day, we are away from our phones?

Turns out that I am not alone. Brilliant shower thoughts are a well-recognised thing by a lot of people.

And I have come to believe that it's mainly because that's the only time of the day when we truly listen to our mind.

We live in a world where information keeps hitting us from all sides.

A casual meme. A sad story. A heated debate. A motivational reel. Each small piece of content opens a tiny chain of thoughts in the background.

But our brain likes closure.

It keeps chasing the end of every unfinished thought. But the stream never ends.

New thought. New loop. New noise.

This is why many of us feel mentally tired even on days we “did nothing.”
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Our brain is running a marathon on the inside.

I learned that the real problem isn’t the information.

It’s the constant consumption.

We don’t give our minds enough quiet space to settle.
We don’t let our own thoughts rise.
We fill every empty moment before it even arrives.

The solution sounds boring, but it works. (for me at least)

Be picky about what you consume.
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I unfollowed accounts that made my mind restless. I reduced doomscrolling.
And now my brain had fewer tabs open.

Here’s what you can try :

Make time for boredom.
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Sit without a screen for five minutes.
Take a slow walk without earphones.
Let your mind present you with ideas to play with.

Most importantly, learn to listen to your own thoughts. Your mind has valuable things to say, but it gets drowned under the noise that the algorithms feed you.

When I created small pockets of silence in my day, my inner voice started to show up again.
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​What do you think?

Awaiting your reply.

Cheers,

Dr. Vishal.

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