Rigging through the daily hardship and uncertainties of life, we’re mostly caught up in thought , trying to figure out what could be and how it could be and what we could do to avoid the unfortunate.
Sadly this rips us of our concentration and focus on things happening in the real life setting and can cause irreversible challenges.
According to statistics, 73% of people aged between 25 years to 35 years tend to be chronic daily overthinkers while 52% are people aged between 45 years to 55 years.
This pensive state has caused numerous accidents, severe depression and other effects which may tend to be incurable.
These are some of the ways you can reduce your overthinking tendencies;
- Practise being in the moment without judgemental thoughts: Look like mostly when we are alone or even around people we love, i.e. family and friends we are mostly caught up in a futuristic glance that takes our mind off the present life . Ideally, it’s good to live and think about what tomorrow might be like or what it holds with a little pessimism but when it becomes too much it’s a game foul .As much as you can try and engage people in the present and also free yourself to be engaged with fun activities with loved ones and close family members
Avoid being idle and lessen the self-talks: Staying idle with no or less activities to do could make you liable to overthinking as you have more than enough time to over ponder about things and their outcomes,that you have less or no control over. And if this continues,even when you’re choked up with pending chores you’d opt to overthink than to work your way around it ,or seek assistance on your pending task’s completion.To avoid this have atleast a to-do list that has activities lined up in the order of importance to less the less important. Create a playlist that motivates you and groove to it alongside executing the task.
Avoid Negative and Opinionated friends: Sometimes it is the people around us to who turn up our overwhelm our overthinking tendencies, they fill our thoughts with their negative words and opinions about us and about certain occurrences in our lives and leaves us feeling worthless. Over constant engagement with such people, we may be prone to overthink their opinions about us and how we can change it when in actual fact we can’t .
People’s projections about us and our lives has no permanence unless we give it that space to .As long as we live we have the right to do and undo things around us.One of the ways we can do away with such people is to do away with them gradually and then completely. It wouldn’t be easy for one to be able to gain mastery of the said art over a period of time.
Trying therapy sessions, spa treatments and other activities you deem therapeutic to you can help you have a clear mind over a long period of time.
Take pictures and videos of the Good times you have with friends and family : Happiness doesn’t last but a photo album with fond memories does. In as much as you are caught up in the moment, try to take pictures of events and occurrences that made you happy . This may go a long way in helping you release stress as you revisit those happy times in the future.
Avoid being idle , lessen the self talks: Staying idle with no or less activities to do could make you liable to overthinking as you have more than enough time to over ponder about things and their outcomes,that you have less or no control over. And if this continues, even when you’re choked up with pending chores you’d opt to overthink than to work your way around it ,or seek assistance on your pending task’s completion. To avoid this have at least a to-do list that has activities lined up in the order of importance to less the less important. Create a playlist that motivates you and groove to it alongside executing the task.
Avoid Negative and Opinionated friends: Sometimes it is the people around us to who turn up our overwhelm our overthinking tendencies,they fill our thoughts with their negative words and opinions about us and about certain occurrences in our lives and leaves us feeling worthless. Over constant engagement with such people, we may be prone to overthink their opinions about us and how we can change it when in actual fact we can’t . People’s projections about us and our lives have no permanence unless we give it that space to . As long as we live we have the right to do and undo things around us. One of the ways we can do away with such people is to do away with them gradually and then completely.
Visiting a Friendly and Open Therapist:Therapy has over the years had it’s fame in reducing overthinking tendencies and general mental well-being. One doesn’t have to be totally insane or mentally disturbed to use any therapeutic services. Trying therapy sessions,spa treatments and other activities you deem therapeutic to you could help you have a clear mind over a long period of time.
Take pictures and videos of the Good times you have with friends and family :Happiness doesn’t last but a photo album with fond memories does. In as much as you’re caught up in the moment,try to take pictures of events and occurrences that made you happy . This may go a long way in helping you release stress as you revisit those happy times in the future.
Staying idle with no or less activities to do could make you liable to overthinking as you have more than enough time to over ponder about things and their outcomes,that you have less or no control over. And if this continues,even when you’re choked up with pending chores you’d opt to overthink than to work your way around it ,or seek assistance on your pending task’s completion.
To avoid this have atleast a to-do list that has activities lined up in the order of importance to less the less important. Create a playlist that motivates you and groove to it alongside executing the task.
Avoid Negative and Opinionated friends:
Sometimes it is the people around us to who turn up our overwhelm our overthinking tendencies,they fill our thoughts with their negative words and opinions about us and about certain occurrences in our lives and leaves us feeling worthless.
Over constant engagement with such people, we may be prone to overthink their opinions about us and how we can change it when in actual fact we can’t . People’s projections about us and our lives has no permanence unless we give it that space to .As long as we live we have the right to do and undo things around us.
One of the ways we can do away with such people is to do away with them gradually and then completely. It wouldn’t be easy be one can gain mastery of the said art over a period of time.
Visiting a Friendly and Open Therapist:
Therapy has over the years had it’s fame in reducing overthinking tendencies and general mental well-being. One doesn’t have to be totally insane or mentally disturbed to use any therapeutic services.
Trying therapy sessions, spa treatments and other activities you deem therapeutic to you could help you have a clear mind over a long period of time.
Take pictures and videos of the Good times you have with friends and family :
Happiness doesn’t last but a photo album with fond memories does. In as much as you’re caught up in the moment,try to take pictures of events and occurrences that made you happy . This may go a long way in helping you release stress as you revisit those happy times in the future.
