5 Mind Hacks To Stop Overthinking
Tags: Overthinking, Motivation, Mind, Mindset

I will share with you 5 easy and simple steps for you to stop overthinking right away and start living again. Every simple mind hacks almost change our state of awareness around who we are, and they’re effortless to implement into your life right away.

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1- Breathe techniques

The first one is just to breathe. I mean by this that there’s a profound realization that many Buddhist masters and spiritual gurus have come to, which is that fundamentally all we have is up breath.

It’s the one constant that’s going to be with us for our whole life. And as soon as you can become aware of your breath in different moments and how you’re breathing, that’s a beautiful way to get present at the moment.

You see, we’re not going to just focus on getting present in the motor. It’s going to focus on experiencing the breath over and over. And for me, it’s been the most potent half as soon as I’m feeling stressed to get into awareness of my breath simply.

2- Do daily exercise

The second powerful hack is around exercise. Now you’re not going to try to exercise to defeat overthinking. Still, instead, I think that if you’re overthinking a lot and is causing you’re stressed, then introducing exercise as a daily routine into your life is a beautiful way to help your body start to breathe much more deeply.

So if you combine steps one and two, you begin to have a different relationship with the body. You get your heart rate up, and you much more aware of all the bodily processes. This is the basis on which you can start to stop overthinking from taking over your life.

3- Ask questions yourself

The third mind hack is something I learned from Charmin Rooter. Whenever you start to question yourself, it’s okay to see that multiple identities live inside you. There are various personalities, so what is useful is to begin to get into a conversation with the different versions of you.

So let me give you an example, imagine I was going on a date tonight, and I was nervous right now about the date, and I started to wonder whether she’s going to think. I’m good enough for her. If she’s going to wonder whether I’m dressed well enough, and so I start to identify that there is an insecure version of me, but then at the same time, I realized that I’ve gone out with this girl three times in a row. Now that we generally just laugh all of the time.

We only have a perfect time together. I realize it has a pretty relaxed and easygoing person. When I’m with this particular person I’m going out tonight, I start to see that there is a very relaxed version of me.

So instead of trying to defeat the insecure Justin and just aggressively to push towards the calm Justin. It’s okay only to accept that the insecure Justin is real that real person needs deep down inside and give him space and start to listen to the voices coming from means to Justin alongside the relaxed Justin.

4- Do meditation

A fourth mind hack is a different approach to meditation that I learned from Alan Watts. So with this meditation, what I do pretty much every day is that I just stand or sit still or I lie down on the bed, and then I start to listen to all of the noises around me, and I just sort of like sit there and listen without actually putting labels on it.

I stop placing judgment on, and I let the thoughts come to the ideas. Like my friend, I see they’re just a dance that’s coming through, almost like music to my ears. And I just don’t care anymore. If it’s jealous thoughts, insecure thoughts, angry thoughts, toxic thoughts, it just doesn’t matter. I don’t care at all about these thoughts that are coming through.

I put a lot more thought into things, and I think that being a thoughtful person is one of my greatest assets and I’ve started to enjoy the struggle of being an over-thinker.

5- Set a goal

The last step is to focus on your goal or focus in general, so something like overthinking somebody in the business who slid you or maybe overcharged you. It may be something like that that might infuriate you or make you think what the heck why or like how could I’ve done it differently or how could I avoid this situation.

I realized that my time and energy wasn’t worth that and calculating the time on a financial level. It wasn’t worth it to just walk away and say okay. I would consider a healthy or a professional and respectable response.

It was confirming to say, wow, I was overthinking this. I spent a lot of extra time trying to overthink for a specific outcome and result, and really focused and turned back towards that focus of what will create the most ease and balance in my business. My personal life was just walking away and letting the money go. And so I really felt like, whoa, like this is awesome than for the first time like I didn’t overthink this.

Read more about overthinking solutions here: 50 Strategies To Stop Overthinking

If you can embrace those five hacks and implement them into your lives if you’re struggling with overthinking, you’ll start to lose the charge associated with always questioning yourself and still being frustrated. And hopefully, you’ll live to begin to live a much more satisfying life.