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A Peaceful Way To Ease Overthinking
In all my time wasted with overthinking, I found nothing good in it. All it’s ever done for me is pile on the headaches and stress.
Worst of all, when it gets started, it feels like there isn’t much I can do to escape.
There is a popular tactic out there for dealing with this. Since negative thoughts normally fuel overthinking, some say if you replace the negative thought with a positive one, then it will calm the mind.
That has never worked for me, at least not in the long term. What happens with this is I leave the negative thought unresolved, stuffed way down, and primed to pop up some time in the future.
It just doesn’t do the trick for me when I try to manipulate my mind into a calm and positive state. All that forcing, prodding, and prying to get my busy mind to submit just makes things worse.
Leave it alone
I’ve found that the best way to calm my mind is to let go and leave it alone.
If my overthinking is a speeding car and I’m the one being dragged behind it with a rope, then the quickest way to peace is to just let go of the rope instead of trying to take back control of the car.
When I do that, the car vanishes along with all the struggle.
