Overthinking?

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**admodi86**

How to be "easy" about it? lol

Recently since I have learned of the grid and how superbly it works, and I am realizing the power of thought more than I did before. Somehow this thing seems to be important to learn now: How to be EASY about it...

Tips?

**LoveFreedom**

I used to be a slave to my mind: highly analytical, really wanting to get to the bottom (BTW, There is no bottom ) Overthinking everything big time.

This is why i just luuuuuuuuuve the going general and the grid metaphors/processes. they helped me to connect to what i feel and I am making myself feel the feelings in my body. Feel the warmth, the relaxation, the center of my body relaxing. I relax my eyesight and go into slightly meditative state and just focus on how I want to feel.

If I am in a middle of churning stuff inside of my head, I go general. It helps me to listen to some recordings of going general or I just make it up, something like, *I don't have to figure it out this red hot minute, later gator, what's the rush? I can leave it for now, I want to feel relaxed, all i want, really is just feel good....*

so to answer your question my advice would be:

go general

love your brain and your ability to think

appreciate appreciate appreciate

go general

did I say go general?

build a grid of EASE: say as often as you remember" i want to feel ease, i want to be easy about it... how would it feel to feel ease....how would it feel to be easy about it?...and take it from there: what other emotions are you craving, what is an opposite of overthinking?... relaxed, meditative, ease, centered...

Focus on feelings and really feel them...

Hope that helps

**TryAgain**

Notice, Notice, Notice, NOTICE, NOTICE! when something starts to *feel like work*...and then pull back again, to a more casual, easy, dreamy place.

**intrigued**

> Originally Posted by **LoveFreedom**
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That's a good point. Being hard on ourselves because we overthink sometimes just compounds things. Appreciating our ability to think feels much better.... then go general

**admodi86**

Some exam pressure and a bit of over-doing and over-thinking it caused me to be OOTV for a lot of time than I am practised too be. But I am gathering up myself, cleaning my trousers from the fall and trying to move on. Trying to stay "WAY TOO GENERAL" is what seems good right now.

**admodi86**

And yes, thanks all of you... for your replies

**honeypie**

One of my favorites, Abraham mentioned in a workshop that Esther says, "I don't have to think about this right now." That pacifies me and works very well. "I don't have to think about this right now" lets me get on to thinking other things, yet satisfies some part of me who says, "Aha! I can think about this LATER!!"

**Sweet Peace**

> Originally Posted by **admodi86**
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> How to be "easy" about it? lol
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> Recently since I have learned of the grid and how superbly it works, and I am realizing the power of thought more than I did before. Somehow this thing seems to be important to learn now: How to be EASY about it...
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> Tips?
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Yep...that's your grid. Imagine what it feels like to feel EASY about all of this. Do that now. Close your eyes, feel the ease in the center of your being. Ahhhh...relief, worthiness, completeness...all right there around ease.

Hold it...hold it...hold it...17 seconds
That's it, you're done. Breathe easy, and go eat a cookie. You're there.
This will expand on it's own. The rest will fade bit by bit into the background until it becomes a memory you rarely think about, accept to remember how nice it feels, and how great of a job you did on your way back into the vortex of ease.

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