Brain fog is a way to describe the forgetfulness nature that Ayurvedic Vata minds commonly daily express that we accept as part of us.
In this article, you can learn all about brain fog from our daily environment and simple things we can tweak. You’ll also learn how brain fog isn’t always bad like when it’s from spiritual sources.
Brain fog is the general symptom description for not being able to think clearly.
Often this is when you want the mind to work for you.
Brain fog moments often shows up as confusion, lack of focus, or forgetfulness.
So brain fog would make sense as an explanation for simple memory blips.
But there’s more to this from a spiritual lens that I explain further below on how you can see it as a benefit and a blessing at times.
Because usually brain fog only has negative connotations in our practical culture.
And this article provides some healthy lifestyle tips to eliminate those daily negative brain fog aspects, plus presenting the balancing Vata brain fog positives (that’s a common built-in feature in our Vata mind nature).
In either positive or negative case, we don’t often sit around and analyze what’s going on with brain fog when our minds are in the clouded mist.
And what we experience is usually harmless, like forgetting eye glasses on our heads and looking everywhere for them.
While that can be comical, it’s extra minutes of distraction when the answer was sitting on you above your nose.
For daily routines and tasks, Vatas often create forgetfulness habits to set reminders and purposefully not forget.
High Vatas have active minds of worry-anxiety, more so than Pittas and Kaphas that can have other brain fog distractions.
This btw happened to me when I baked a healthy dessert for the morning and next morning. And the next morning, I forgot about all about it in my mind’s distraction.
A simple scenario like that happens to all of us at some point.
…And when I remembered the forgotten cool peach dessert, it was actually when I would appreciate the bite more after lunch so it could be an enjoyment positive experience.
In your daily life, if someone ever asks you why you didn’t do something and you answer I forgot, you often don’t get a lot of out-of-the-ordinary questioning.
Because forgetting is so normal.
Forgetting can also be healthy for us who like to control ideas. You let go of controlling your mind or the device in front of you that you’re tethered to.
This can invite in creativity inside us and help us let go of rigid ways.
But then there are also negatives such as cognitive decline brain fog instances we want to help prevent. It’s the “elephant in the room” but a diagnosis growing in our world, and that’s something we can be aware of and doing something about in our lives today.
Preventative Healthy Living Helps With Brain Fog
Brain fog can grow when we have these elements in our daily lives: high-processed foods, pesticides, phthalates, non-purified air, and mold, to name a few culprits in our modern lifestyles.
They alter our bodies and that affects our mind in the body-mind connection and in our mental health.
Processed foods for example become whole nutrient-stripped in the plant process (as in factory plant 🏭).
Organic plants 🌱 are better options where we don’t find the same trace levels of pesticides that are found in non-organic foods.
If you garden, you know what natural sprays you’ve used or not used in your care. And when you bake like I do, you know what ingredients you’ve added. You know the wholesomeness details.
In grocery stores, we see the ingredients in our carts we’ll be using to cook with or eat. And we can read labels.
But we don’t see the processes in-between, so this makes comparing foods an apples to oranges experience.
Cheese is an example. Rennet that is found in some parts of the world isn’t the pasteurized cheese process found along the shelf rows in our American grocery stores.
The goat and sheep’s cheese that the Sardinians farm and eat isn’t what we find in our guts.
And for daily coffee drinkers, switching to organic is good for preventative health as coffee is naturally high in mold.
Mold is a brain fog offender.
Organic coffee is considerably more expensive and more difficult to source, but it’s out there when you look and put your health first.
You can get resourceful and save money by buying whole roasts and then doing the grind work yourself. You can feel much more grounded like your coffee when you do. 😊
Daily clean air is also going to be healthy preventative help against the brain fog cause. Developing daily hayfever-like allergy symptoms is one common sign.
And building in more wellness habits and healthy intentions to your life is going to help you most in your sleep, health conditions, and mental fatigue. Yoga is one way to bring in more self-awareness intention.
When you calm and relax your mind and self that also brings down your stress and anxiety levels that help Vata brain fog.
Calming and Relaxing the Mind
Good answers and thoughts show up when the mind is calm and relaxed, and not anxious or worried like when running with high Vata brain fog symptoms.
When our minds are under stress, often we can’t think of the answer when put on the spot.
If we’re asked a Family Feud game show question like what is the first thing you do in the morning?, we can usually come up with an answer. And maybe one that lights up on the board.
But when someone asks us the same question in an interview where we know others will put judgment on what we say, we can’t come up with the answer under mind stress.
We could just give a safe answer.
…Or you may surprise yourself by blurting an answer that surprises you.
Those answers that pop up in memory unexpectedly often come from our spirit.
The answer that pops in our mind come from our deeper wisdom inside us.
We didn’t rack our brain for the answer. They just entered out of no where.
Those thoughts can be blessings when you connect-the-dots.
I’ve had a lot of time and spiritual experiences to teach me wisdom lessons learned to show me this.
And you can notice when thought lapses land in aligned perfect timing.
That’s when it’s a spiritual miracle and blessing.
An example is we forget what we were going to say from our rational brain from losing our train of thought.
We get other thoughts that enter.
In groups I attended, we called these other thoughts: popcorn thoughts. These answers come from our heart as though we didn’t process the thought first.
If it’s a helpful suggestive thought, it’s often helpful for others to hear who need the suggestion.
If you can get over what others will think or any insecurities you have in those moments, and blurt out what you’re thinking, often it helps someone else.
You don’t necessarily know how it will help, but it does when you dare to stay vulnerable in sharing.
They are spiritual collaboration opportunities that are expressed when you speak them aloud. You can feel good about showing up.
In the same token, sometimes others blurt out something you needed that sticks with you. It’s the same when purposefully listening to a podcast or a message that you need.
So we’re giving back in a way.
We can all contribute and give back in the energy of life in this way and without much effort.
If you want more of these opportunities to show up and are willing to have your day rearranged in some way, ask quietly aloud or in self-talk: what can I do today to be helpful?
Then be prepared to be useful to others. 😊
And in daily life, these prompted thoughts and memories will show up more frequently if you pay attention (that’s an active move).
You could ignore and override those thoughts to stay on your linear agenda.
That’s how I was until I knew better.
As a planner, we don’t prefer going off course. But over the years, I grew to embrace impromptu thoughts entering, seeing this new spiritual perspective.
And maybe that would help you.
Spiritual impromptu thoughts help you align and redirect to a better way, day, and life. They lead to a life of more purpose, happiness, meaning, and fulfillment. 🎉
So you can be curious next time and openly ask yourself: why did I have ____ particular thought? And see if you get anything back as a thought.
Most likely you won’t immediately.
But that makes you consider another way of thinking and living that can be spirit-filled and coming from deeper inside of you that knows deeply what you want.
And you can stay curious and wondering until something clicks like it finally did for me.
So if we wonder about those spiritual impromptu thoughts, that opens the door to our exploring our spiritual wisdom inside us that isn’t brain fog.
This can be our new norm.
And for our daily mattering lives, we can invite in ad hoc thoughts in our mantras, meditation, and centering to help advise us on what to do next.
And as you can tell, I enjoy baking meditation where this dessert was dreamed up and you can enjoy making.✨
Low-Sugar Peach Shortcake Dessert
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 cup plain flour
- 2-3 eggs
- fresh peaches
- sugar and salt (optional)
Instructions
- Melt the butter in the milk and water on medium heat on the stove.
- Add the flour and stir.
- Take the mixture to a mixer and mix in egg yolks.
- Pipe into a baking vessel to make a shape or add on a baking pan for a free form.
- Bake at 325°F/165°C until warm golden brown.
- Use your favorite filling, topping, and add diced peaches as the star ingredient. Peaches have fiber, Vitamin C, and A antioxidants.