What is Overthinking?
The old and classic definition of overthinking is 'thinking about small things too much or too long'. Whereas it is human nature to think deeply during a decision or evaluation of a situation. But when this situation remains in the mind and you cannot separate yourself from the thoughts. So, this condition can be called overthinking or thinking too much.
It happens to all of us at some point in our lives. We all experience events in life that cause worry or stress for us. But some people can't get rid of their worries.
They worry about the future, making frightening predictions about possible events that have not happened yet. They also think of the past, 'must laugh at oneself' and 'can be laughed at with laughter'. They may be filled with fretting over this. They are constantly worried about what others think of them or any negative thing they have heard about themselves, constantly swirling in their mind. Any tough decision taken by you can also cause problems. Many a times you think of too many options in your mind. But the search for the right option becomes so difficult that it paralyzes your thinking. In such a situation, you think that it is better not to take a decision than to take a wrong decision. But taking wrong decision is always better than not taking any decision.
Whether you have a problem with overthinking for a long time or need to make a difficult decision, you may experience sleepless nights when your brain is thinking too much.
Why Do I Overthink?
Before you learn how to stop overthinking, you must first understand the question, 'Why do I overthink? Often overthinking is the result of anxiety or depression. If this is the case, you may need treatment to relieve your anxiety or depression. To some extent, you may feel that it is only because of overthinking that you are able to meet your need to make difficult life decisions or deal with your insecurities.
If overthinking is not actually a symptom of a deeper emotional issue, then this problem can often be addressed by changing thoughts and mindset. Trust me, it also gives positive results.
Why Overthinking Is Bad ?
Overthinking is more than a problem. Science agrees that thinking too much is bad for your health. Overthinking can harm you in the following ways, Like ;
1 . Overthinking can push you into a vicious circle that is very difficult to break. It wreaks havoc on your mental peace. As you lose your peace of mind, you end up getting stuck in the quagmire of thinking more.
2. Because of overthinking, you get entangled in the whirlpool of problems. You also start imagining situations that have never happened. But in this hustle and bustle, instead of looking for a solution to the problem, you are busy thinking only. Even easy life decisions can be affected by these problems. Like, what clothes should I wear today? Or, where to go for a walk next weekend? These decisions can also leave you confused as if it is a question of life and death. The sad thing is that, even after thinking so much, you are not able to reach any conclusion.
3. Crying over almost everything and constantly worrying about things over which you have little or no control can lead to fewer sleep hours. Overthinking similarly affects the quality of your sleep. Because of this, you can also feel tired for the next whole day.
Here are the most common signs you are an overthinker:
* You second guess everything.
* You analyze and analyze and analyze.
* You catastrophize or expect the worst.
* You have insomnia.
* You hate making decisions.
* You’d rather someone else decides for you.
* Have many regrets.
* Can’t let things go.
* You take things personally.
* You’re a perfectionist.
* You criticize yourself a lot.
* You feel tense.
* You can’t turn your brain off.
5 Important Tips To Get Rid Of Overthinking -
1. Learn to ignore bad things and bad people -
The biggest mistake of yours is that whenever something feels bad to you, instead of ignoring it, you go into it, and start thinking. The day you get out of this weakness of yours, from that day you will start improving yourself. It is also necessary to distance ourselves from bad people because their words, their behavior creates negativity in us and we start converting our positive thoughts into negativity by thinking of their words. So learn to ignore their words and their behavior.
2. Stop being afraid of defeat -
Whenever we get defeated in any area of our life, we start falling prey to one thought. We get scared and hesitate to do anything. We start getting weak inside because our feeling of defeat gets inside us. Sometimes we get lost in the relationship and then we have to think a lot in making a relationship with anyone. When a person loses, he starts falling apart. His breaking like this depends on his thinking. When you keep thinking about something by developing only negative thoughts, then you are not able to pay attention to the positive aspects of that thing.
3. Try to eliminate your troubles -
When you are upset, you fail in some area and start thinking too much about some of your problems which are not getting fixed quickly. You don't understand at that time what to do. You just keep thinking about it but you will know that there are no such problems in life which can be cured by just thinking. Instead of thinking, you should find a way out of it so that you can get out of those troubles and move forward in life and be successful.
4. No matter what happens always stay positive -
When an incident happens to you, which you have never even thought of, then you start losing life. But at that time your biggest companion is your positivity, which removes you from bad thoughts, depression etc. There are bound to be ups and downs in life. Just as time keeps changing, so too do the circumstances of our life. But in those situations, our positivity gives us energy, which saves us from being weak.
5. Be busy in your daily routine -
When you are busy with your work, you do not have time to think too much. You take turns in handling your tasks and concentrate your full attention on your work. Then you don't have time to think about everything like what people are saying and doing. You do not pay attention to them and keep on passing on your work.
Thinking too much is like a problem. Means it is not necessary to all the time thinking good, bad, future, past, how, why, when, where, all these things. Some things in life go on their own accord, they should be allowed to go on like that. I was once listening to a philosopher on TV, he was telling that if I want to plant flowers in my garden and I just sit and think about flowers, I am thinking such flowers should be so big, so small, Thinking about this colour, this form, will flowers grow? Tell me will they grow? No, not at all, he told that thinking about flowers will not produce flowers, on the contrary, if we think about soil, fertilizers, sunlight, how to plant, then maybe flowers will also grow. What the philosopher meant was that we should think about our goal, but we should not keep thinking only about the goal, we should also think about the necessary things to achieve that goal, because if we use the things If we think about how to get those things, then we will definitely achieve the goal. Nothing has ever happened just by thinking about it.
He told another thing that overthinking is like a mental illness – just like we have physical illness, there is also a mental illness for which we go to the psychiatrist. By thinking all the time, we become victims of that mental illness. Just as we take many measures to cure physical illness, such as if we have fever then we stop drinking cold water and if there is stomach disease then we stop eating for some time. In the same way, if we have a mental illness, we should stop thinking too much because the more we think, the more energy will be given to that disease, in the same way, eating more will increase the disease of the stomach, it will not decrease. So when we close the source of that disease, then the disease will automatically end.
That is why if you think that you are a victim of overthinking, then adopt those five given tips and stop thinking. In today's technological era, everyone and most of the youths are the victims of overthinking. It also being found in many researches that children are the victims of overtaking. I am, they are, you are, we all are the victims of overthinking, there is nothing to be ashamed of, so it has to be corrected and I am really telling that to cure this disease, you not really need any medicine, any sadhna, yoga or some other thing. No, the only thing you do just you have to reduce thinking too much, the best solution for that is to keep yourself busy as much as possible and keeping yourself busy is not only overcome the overthinking but also the solution to many mental diseases.
One more thing I would like to mention that overthinking is always created by bad thoughts yes really, it happens when some bad qualities are taken out from a human being. If you want, try and see it - do one thing, select 5 people around you, take their bad qualities, then you will see, that you will take one, two, will take out three, and gradually the bad qualities will increase. As soon as they come out your mind will go away. It will fill your mind completely with bad thoughts. But if you, on the contrary, take out the good qualities of those 5 persons, then you will not be able to extract more than two-three. It's true, will try it, And this will have the effect that there will be no bad thoughts or overthinking in your mind. You will make good thoughts about people, make only two or three and your mind will stop thinking there and you will not be a victim of overthinking.
Will try it out.
In the last I just have to say that overthinking is not such a big disease as we have made it and solving it is not a big task, we can easily get rid of it, we just need to try.
"Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, 'What else could this mean?"
- Shannon L. Alder
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