Is it confidential?
Yes. Messages are treated in strict confidence and are sent via encrypted email or a private and secure chat app. You can even be anonymous if you wish. Messages are deleted after being read and no copies are kept.
I meditate to clear my mind. How is this different?
Clearing with the Clear Mind Process is different from quieting mind chatter during meditation. It clears mind content right down to its root rather than just quelling it or pushing it out of the mind.
Also, doing the process with an experienced coach acting as an objective witness is more effective than viewing mind content alone during meditation. The mind has a way of shielding highly charged content from view, but the Clear Mind Process is able to bypass this.
It sounds like confessing to a priest.
The Clear Mind Process is entirely non-religious and there’s no make-wrong, guilt, penitence, absolution or declaring how ‘sinful’ you’ve been.
Clearing occurs in a safe, non-judgemental space and it doesn’t involve feeling bad about things you did. You simply acknowledge that you did or didn’t do something that you consider to be against your own internal code of right and wrong (not anyone else’s).
You’re already unconsciously punishing or admonishing yourself for these things, and holding yourself back in certain areas of your life, and the purpose of clearing is to release you from that and restore your presence and functionality in those areas.
Also, in the Clear Mind Process the intention is to clear the mind comprehensively, not just to confess a few superficial things while leaving deeper things untouched.
How does it compare with journaling?
With journaling you get to empty some of your thoughts onto a page (or screen) but there’s no acknowledgement coming back from the journal. It’s like your words just hang in empty space waiting to be heard by someone other than yourself.
In the Clear Mind Process your clearing statements are received, witnessed, acknowledged and then intentionally disappeared. This ‘closes the loop’ and completes the communication cycle, which is how things get cleared from your mind. What you write in a journal stays in your mental space. You’ve merely created a written copy of your thoughts.
Also, the temptation when journaling is to ‘pour your heart out’ from a victim-like mindset, complaining and blaming, which is disempowering and unproductive, even if it might give you some temporary relief through letting off steam. The Clear Mind Process is structured and you’re encouraged to express yourself from a position of self-responsibility, which is empowering and promotes personal growth.