Stop Thinking, Start Living: Discover Lifelong Happiness (Book Artwork May Vary)

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I titled this post “How to Stop Thinking and Start Living” not because I had the answer, but because I was hoping you would. Below we take a closer look at what overthinking is, why we do it, and what you can do about it to help yourself.

Exercises like the 4×4 technique, also known as both breathing, works by giving your mind the opportunity to focus solely on one thing: your breath. It may happen—although many things never do—and when it does, “fight or flight” kicks in, and your world becomes centered around whatever you are dealing with in that moment.

Better than confining your decisions to your own biases, perspectives, and mental filters, commit to seeking support from loved ones.

He realised that he had been using his own thinking against himself his entire lifetime and had rarely questioned his beliefs. Whether it was fear of failure, or fair of being laughed at, spending lots of time thinking about doing something was a reason to procrastinate.If it is a person that is your trigger, then consider conversations that you could have with them and imagine your interaction with them unfolding without conflict. If you realize halfway through a movie that it’s a bad one, you do the most reasonable thing you can: you turn it off; life is just too short to waste it on bad movies.