{"id":26267,"date":"2020-12-31T11:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=26267"},"modified":"2020-12-31T11:24:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T11:24:41","slug":"telling-yourself-to-forget-about-something-and-clear-your-mind-helps-to-make-room-in-your-brain-for-more-productive-thoughts-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/31\/telling-yourself-to-forget-about-something-and-clear-your-mind-helps-to-make-room-in-your-brain-for-more-productive-thoughts-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling yourself to forget about something and clear your mind helps to make room in your brain for more productive thoughts, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22017\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/brain-photo-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Giving yourself verbal or mental instructions to clear your mind can help make room in your brain for more productive thoughts, a new study reveals. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-9098573\/Mental-instructions-free-space-productive-thoughts-study-shows.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Giving yourself verbal or mental instructions to clear your mind can help make room in your brain for more productive thoughts, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26268,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26267\/revisions\/26268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}