This is episode 1,694.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.

I'm Mary Mickley and I honor you for showing up for yourself today as you get ready to slow down and

connect to the best part of who you are. In today's episode, we continue with our theme this week. Our theme is all about clarity, mental clarity,

and in today's episode,'m going to share with you ways to create clarity in your

physical spaces because research in your

research shows that when you have spaces

that when you have spaces that are cluttered. Your thoughts become cluttered and it's hard to focus. And if you've

been with us throughout this series, a few episodes ago at the beginning

of the series, I shared with you research from Dr. Gary Small who is a professor of psychiatry and

behavioral sciences at UCLA.

And he's done a lot of research on the brain and how your brain functions.

And in the earlier episodes,

I shared how when you are online using the internet and your different devices and you click around from one site that you Google to another site and you quickly scan articles that

Really don't have a whole lot of content anyways

instead of reading well thought out articles and spending some time on one site,

focusing, and when you check emails and text messages this can actually harm your brain.

So it seems that when your physical spaces are likewise scattered and cluttered, that this also creates scattered cluttered thinking.

So neuroscientists have blamed the clutter of technology for shrinking your attention spans and even impacting your ability to learn.

Fortunately, there are solutions and you are doing

one of the very best, if not the very best,

way to support your prefrontal lobes,

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