95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise.
You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.
95% of “overthinking” is unprocessed emotion wearing a rational disguise. You don’t need more logic. You need to feel the discomfort you’re avoiding.
The mind, with its thoughts, is driven by feelings. Each feeling is the cumulative derivative of many thousands of thoughts. Because most people throughout their lives repress, suppress, and try to escape from their feelings, the suppressed energy accumulates and seeks expression through psychosomatic distress, bodily disorders, emotional illnesse
... See moreDavid R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins
This isn't about suppressing feelings but about using rational analysis as a stabilizing force.
Matthew Denman • The Altruistic Renegade
Fear of life is really the fear of emotions. It is not the facts that we fear but our feelings about them.
David R. Hawkins • Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
When tackling a problem, the intellect might say, “I feel we should do this or that.” But the mind doesn’t mean “I feel.” What it means is “I think.” Most of what the mind says it feels is not really feeling at all—it’s opinion.
Stuart Wilde • Silent Power
The emotion behind much overthinking is fear—fear of being out of control, of being overwhelmed, of failure, of impending danger, of panic, and so on. The feeling is valid. But that doesn’t mean it’s true. It certainly doesn’t mean it’s helpful! And if we act out of fear, we often only end up creating more fear anyway. But we have the option to obs
... See moreNick Trenton • Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)
recognising a feeling doesn’t mean you follow it to a conclusion.