What’s up? Still awake? Not able to sleep because you are juggling in the jungle of your thoughts, where you have no map, no clear route and no lights to come back safely? So, finally, you are at the correct place to Reduce Overthinking with mindful ways and easy hacks. Overthinking makes you roam everywhere in a world where everything appears to be dark and scary compared to reality.

But do you also think that overthinking is a bad habit? Overthinking ruins your mind, days and even years and now you are fed up with this uncontrolled habit of yours. But what if I tell you that you can constructively use this overthinking?

Here I am going to share some amazing tips and tricks on how you can stop overthinking, and ultimately, if you stop this habit of yours, you can finally sleep with peace and happiness through some relaxation techniques to reduce overthinking.

As always, I will share a simple but short story to make you believe that overthinking can be used by you for a constructive reason, you just have to tweak your path, the way you overthink.

My “thinking too much” story.

Like every reader, I too love to read for hours and nights but once I was reading a book, and that book appeared to be tough as compared to other books whose language was easy.

Reading one paragraph, the second paragraph and then page by page, the book seemed to be interesting, but then I got stuck on one paragraph. I read it many times, but still not able to grasp the depth of words. What does the writer want to say? Then I stopped reading, and since I am a regular reader and thinker, I kept thinking about that “single paragraph” for two hours, and my nerves were able to get the whole thing.

Now what should I conclude from my example? If overthinking is that bad, then why did I get the solution? Why did it help me? Why?

I will tell you the answer to why. But learn one thing from these studies, overthinking is bad if you are thinking wrong things at the wrong time.

Now, what does that mean, wrong thinking at the wrong time?

Let’s unfold it.

Wrong Overthinking Types you must avoid.

1. Asking the wrong types of questions to understand the issue.

I am explaining simply from researched material, don’t panic. Suppose you have to switch your job because you don’t see a legit salary spike in your
current company. Also, you are seeing regular firing of employees because the company is optimizing its recurrent budget. Since the topic is very fierce, and you know the next number can be yours.

You have responsibilities to your wife, kids and even equated monthly payments, where banks don’t understand your personal reasons, if they want the EMI amount, they want it at any cost. The whole thing is scary, of course. Now you are thinking, if your job goes, what will you do?

Here, if I tell you that you are thinking about the wrong types of questions to understand your “main job issue”. That’s the common and general problem where our thinking gets distracted from the main issue.

Your main problem was – Getting a job? Right. What is the next possible good step I can take? How soon should I find a job? What can I do to upgrade or upskill on this, or how can I improve my performance so that I get out of my red zone, which is the danger zone? Rather than thinking of these valid topics, you started to think about what the wrong consequences of not getting a job would be.

Who gave you permission to be the most pessimistic about yourself? You lose confidence, here’s the confidence mindset habits you need to survive.

“7 Confidence Mindset Habits to Crush Self-Doubt and Fear”.

Did you now understand reason number one, why you’re overthinking, sorry, wrong. Overthinking is haunting you and not letting you sleep.

2. Asking the right questions but at the wrong time.

This is equally responsible for your wrong overthinking, how ??

Let me explain.

Suppose your brother is sick, being an elder sister, it’s your responsibility to check upon his health. You are seeing, his health is deteriorating day by day. But you are thinking about the bad image of hospitals in your area where you have heard that the medical facilities are not up to the mark.

Now, here, understand this thing, you are absolutely thinking about the right topic, but this timing is wrong, because you need medical facilities for your brother as soon as possible.

Instead of roaming in these thoughts, what you could have done is— you could have talked to a medical professional whose knowledge about these things is quite reliable as compared to your guesswork and could have admitted your brother as soon as possible.

Why do people overthink?

Through the research we got to know:-

• Accumulation of life-related problems is the reason for worries and leads to overthinking
• Current concerns.
• Past events in which one has gone through traumatic experiences.

Emotional, physiological and behavioral Impact of overthinking.

I have gone through several scientific research studies. It’s found that there are numerous fatal impacts of overthinking on our emotional, mental and physical health.

1. You start to lack interest in activities.
2. Irritable and anger issues.
3. You often behave strangely.
4. Absent-mindedness.
5. Lack of awareness and memory loss.
6. Poor concentration and focus at work.
7. Difficulty in sustaining the conversation in any social gatherings or any type of casual talk.
8. Diminished problem-solving ability.
9. Always feel tired but unable to sleep.
10. Lethargic, low energy, and weakness.

Physical impact:-

One might experience these physical symptoms as well while facing this overthinking problem:-

1. Bodily pains.
2. Frequent Fever and chest pain.
3. Heart palpitations.
4. High blood pressure.
5. Shortness of breath.
6. Stroke
7. Fear of death.
8. Psychotic symptoms like being wrongly delusional or facing hallucinations.
9. Lack of ability to work.
10. Diabetes.

According to “Muecke” women are prone to wrong overthinking because of social and gendered positions.

5 Relaxation techniques to reduce wrong overthinking.

1. Strengthen your mind muscles with spirituality.

It’s been found through research that people who think wrong overly are mostly spiritually weak.

People think being spiritually aligned means they must associate themselves with a religion, faith or god.

Not absolutely, it’s wrong. You need to add your mind with the righteous thinking of that ultimate energy, it could be anything on which you believe – for instance: you believe there is a universe, so you can trust on this universe and make the universe your guiding mentor, trust it that, it won’t let bad thing happen with you.

Being spiritual, having one of the most beautiful things is that you start to have faith in something, and remember when you develop faith for your ultimate power, that power teaches you to be happy, peaceful, calm even when chaos is happening in your life, spirituality teaches you to develop faith in yourself.

Being spiritual teaches you to not react suddenly with impatience but it lets your sense to respond in a way, the way it’s required.

Overthinking leads you to negative thinking and then anxiety, not being able to sleep problems, but if you start your spiritual journey it lets you negate negative thinking which is one of the primary causes of your wrong overthinking.

2. Skill yourself in decision making.

Overthinking happens when you can’t decide what to do now? What to do first, you lack prioritization and everything appears to be important at that particular moment and hence you seem confused, frustrated and gloomy at the same time.

There is a threshold of thinking such that when one goes beyond it, one ends up worrying, not performing practical actions and often the result of this activity is useless and ultimately you also start to believe, it all sucks, it’s useless, you are useless.

If situation demands, write to analyze it clear like what is the main issue of your worry, what other important stuff are going in your mind at the same time, and then it might be the common case that all the thinking and worries and topics of issue are right but you have to find it out, what’s the main issue and what thinking is related to your main topics context and rest other can wait for further thinking.

You don’t have to process everything at the same time, then it might blast your mind and make you feel annoyed, frustrated and achy.

3. Why so serious? Embrace laughter.

When did you smile last time? When did you laugh like a child last time? You are still thinking about the answer above, see that low and infrequent you laugh or smile that you have to recall it with full concentration.

It’s been found, people who overthink are overly serious. It might be a stigma, or other reasons or they think it might harm their image.

Smile to cheer yourself, smile that you are bridging every obstacle, what life is throwing towards you. Watch a comedy show, watch something joyful, play around with kids and try to enjoy every single activity you are doing. When you find happiness and joy in small – small things, you don’t need to give yourself a major leap to cross and find a reason to be happy.

4. Meditation is medicine.

Meditation is one of the best ways to reclaim your calm mind, not just proven by studies but it’s one of my personal experiences and that is why I am recommending you to take a start from meditation.

One can become whatever they have imagined in their heart, all they have to do is meditation.

As per lord Krishna, your “mann” is like an excited child who wants to love to be distracted, when you become the “guru” of your “mann”, it becomes your responsibility to bring it back where it’s necessary. Meditation here helps to take the command over your “mann” and makes you a trainer to train your wrong overthinking.

5. Social support.

It’s recommended by approximately 60% of studies that you should seek social support.

The social support could be your parents, friends or an understanding partner who makes you feel heard. If you are being felt to be heard, your mind relaxes at the back seat and reduces to thinking overly.

Frequently asked questions.

1. Is too much good overthinking bad?

There is no such excess or surplus thinking if you are thinking in the right direction, your mind loves to boost or pump what makes you feel right, and many times, it brings solutions too.

Thinking in loops for hours may be condemned for stress/anxiety but it’s not harmful, it might give you the whole understanding of your thinking.

2. What are possible ways of thinking right?

It doesn’t come in the first instance, but yes by the time through these ways, you will learn.
● Take help of one, who had training in this field.
● You can ask the experts too.
● The most preferred and learning way is you keep conducting possible explorations which involve wrong questions at the beginning but as you practice the reducing overthinking tips for example skilling yourself in better decision making, will make you understand how, where and what wrong you are thinking.

In start it might be possible that you aren’t getting the answers or often you are arriving at a new question or found yourself completely puzzled, but these are normal outcomes of this technique.