Step 1: Turn off notifications. Like, really turn them off.
If you must know, know that 99% of your inbox is spam, and 1% is just your aunt's recipes.
Step 2: Unsubscribe from every single thing. All of it.
Step 3: Set up a filter for 'unsubscribe' to automatically delete all emails with that word in the subject line.
Or, you know, just use a ask_yo_daddy approach: "Dad, why did I just get 500 emails in one day?"
Step 4: Delete all emails older than 3 months. It's just a digital dust bunny.
Step 5: Use a dont_feel_bad approach: pretend your email account is just a virtual 'To Do' list.
Step 6: Turn off email on your phone. Or, you know, just set it to 'Do Not Disturb' mode.
Step 7: Use a pretend_it_didnt_happen strategy: imagine your email account just magically deleted itself (spoilers: it didn't).