Stop Overthinking

• Overthinkers

  

  Chronic overthinkers rehash conversations they had yesterday, second-guess every decision they make and imagine disa...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Destructive thought patterns

  Overthinking often involves two destructive thought patterns--ruminating and incessant worrying. Ruminating involves...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Notice when you're stuck in your head

  Overthinking can become such a habit that you don't even recognize when you're doing it. Practice paying attention. ...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Keep the focus on problem-solving

  If the problem is something you have some control over , consider how you can prevent the problem or challenge yourse...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Challenge your thoughts

  

  Remember that your emotions will interfere with your ability to look at situations objectively.  Take a step b...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Schedule time for reflection

  Incorporate 20 minutes of "thinking time" into your daily schedule. During that time period let yourself worry, rumin...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Learn mindfulness skills

  It's impossible to rehash yesterday or worry about tomorrow when you're living in the present. Mindfulness will hel...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Change the channel

  Telling yourself to stop thinking about something will backfire. Change the channel in your brain by changing your a...

  6 Ways to Stop Overthinking Everything

• Overthinking vs. problem-solving

  If you’re proactively trying to gain a new perspective, you might find thinking about an issue is helpful. If you’re ...

  Ask Yourself These 3 Questions to Stop Overthinking a Problem

• Put a Deadline on Your Thoughts

  To avoid over-ruminating about a decision, give yourself a time frame to think about it.  If it’s a small issu...

  How to stop overthinking your decisions

• Schedule Your Thinking Time

  

  To avoid thinking about problems all day long, schedule a specific time where you give yourself the freedom to think ...

  How to stop overthinking your decisions

• Problem Solving vs. Worrying

  Dwelling on a problem, thinking “this is horrible, I can’t handle this” or rehashing things that happened in the past...

  How to stop overthinking your decisions

• Take a Break

  Letting the inactive parts of your brain work through the problem can let the answer come to you when you’re not expe...

  How to stop overthinking your decisions

• Over-thinking doesn't lead to insight

  You want an understanding of which decision will be best. For this, you need a level of insight into what each decisi...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Your decision will never be final

  You must be aware that however much critical thinking you apply to a decision, you may be wrong . Being comfortable ...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Why over-thinking is harmful

  Studies have shown rumination to be strongly linked to depression, anxiety, binge eating, binge drinking, and self-ha...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Keep active throughout the day

  ... and tire the body out.  One of the reasons for over-thinking may be the fact that you have time to do so. ...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Become the ultimate skeptic

  If you think about what causes thinking to be so stressful and tiring, it’s often our personal convictions that our t...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Seek social support, but don’t vent

  Research has long shown the powerful impact of social support in the reduction of stress. But even better than that ...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• The skill of forgiveness

  Forgiveness can induce the ultimate peace in people. Forgiveness has also been shown on many occasions to help deve...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Plan for conscious distraction

  When you know the time of day rumination will begin, you can plan to remove that spare time with an activity that eng...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Get perspective

  Solve another person’s problem first.  Helping others puts your issues in order by reminding you that we all g...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• "Perfect" decisions

  Don’t worry about the perfection of your decisions. Be swift to move forward, even if it is in the wrong direction. B...

  10 Ways to Stop Overthinking and Start Living

• Dangers of being an overthinker

  

  It increases your chances of mental illness . And as your mental health declines, your tendency to ruminate increas...

  Science Says This is What Happens to You When You Overthink Everything

• Put things into a wider perspective

  When you are thinking and thinking about something ask yourself: Will this matter in 5 years? Or even in 5 weeks? I...

  How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits

• Set short time-limits for decisions

  For small decisions like if you should go and do the dishes, respond to an email or work out, give myself 30 seconds...

  How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits

• Stop setting your day up for stress

  Get a good start , that will set the tone for your day. (read or work-out and then start with the most important ta...

  How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits

• Become a person of action

  When you know how to get started with taking action consistently each day then you’ll procrastinate less by overthink...

  How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits

• You cannot control everything

  Trying to do so simply doesn’t work because no one can see all possible scenarios in advance. Trying to think thing...

  How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits

• Don't get lost in vague fears

  Ask yourself: "What is the worst than can happen?". You will find that the worst that could realistically happen is...

  How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits

• Get plenty of good quality sleep

  When you haven’t slept enough then you become more vulnerable. Vulnerable to worrying and pessimism. To not thin...

  How to Stop Overthinking Everything: 12 Simple Habits