"empty yourself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to express the sense of freeing one's mind from negative or distracting thoughts or feelings. For example, "Before I start a difficult task, I need to empty myself of all my doubts and fears."
But there's a point where you have to empty yourself, to let other influences in".
You empty yourself out in your fiction; I don't give much away directly, but everything away indirectly.
"But there's something Kaufmanesque about this desire to empty yourself out and put anything you want in that space".
"If you do not empty yourself, how can you expect to be filled?" The coffers of the state, too, are like the cup.
The title itself is taken from a passage in William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying" ("In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep"), a book Damon reads on his journey with Reiner.
When you need to rest, to empty yourself of distractions and finally slide down naked into that vast tub of black oblivion, so much more of it than you.
I like thinking of dance as a form of possession, a way of emptying yourself to become something even more powerful.
With the morning suddenly feeling empty, prepare yourself a gorgeous breakfast featuring avocados.
But loneliness is really a state of mind and it doesn't depend on other people: it means there's something empty in yourself.
Narrator Brian Cox explains that "in the competitive world of wizardry, the way to the top is via dead men's pointy shoes... even if you have to empty them yourself".
Whether you're the New Year's resolution type, or have concluded that making empty promises to yourself is a waste of energy, January feels like a fresh start.
