4 Ways to Release Overthinking

Sending Big Spacious Hugs Your Way!

It is my hope with this writing that you can use the list below to find a healing tool that resonates and helps you to become aware and release the habit of overthinking.

No need to force them all into your life. When learning something new or reintroducing a habit, grace and time for integration is paramount. Along with this list I have linked a meditation to help you take an active yet peaceful journey of releasing the habit of excessive thought patterns. Along with mental and emotional understanding, action is also critical to ignite and nurture transformation.

Surrender:

Releasing the seemingly uncontrollable experiences of overthinking is not slowed with more thoughts. More thoughts create more struggle. And the more you fight with your thoughts to make them stop, the louder they get. The first step is letting go of trying to fix the thoughts. and letting them run. The reason to let them run is to let them process, transform and be released. You have an intelligence inside of you that will know which thoughts are needed and which are not. The more you surrender into stillness and quiet, listening to yourself and not degrading yourself, the more you will activate this intuitive intelligence. And the more you will create a deeper, more compassionate relationship with yourself.

Connect To Your Breath: 

In the moment chaos take your attention to your breath immediately. Take a deep inhale with an intentional release on your exhale. Often we feel the need to fight the thoughts, not realizing that we are struggling with ourselves; not just random thoughts. Instead of fight or flight, or overanalyzing, you can go to your spacious creative mind. Anchor to the breath. This creates space and opens up access to other parts of your being that do not need mental processes to find peace. You are not just endowed with logic, but spaciousness. Spaciousness is the harmonic balance that your analytical mind needs to feel safe.

The Brow Center : 

Also known as the third eye in esoteric circles, physically, is the pineal gland, right at the center of the brain. Bringing your awareness to the point between your eyebrows creates a stabilizing, yet expansive feeling in your mental field. This action aligns and integrates the right and left hemispheres of the brain, releasing you from fight or flight. It is a focal point that brings you inward, helping you to release distraction in the outside world. You become your first priority in the moment. I have attached a meditation below to help you practice.

 Journaling: 

When there are a lot of thoughts coming up and there is a great deal of turmoil within, journaling is a great way to help your mental, emotional and physical fields to process what can feel like a calamity of overwhelm in your being. Your mind wants to move the energy and writing can help you unearth what is beneath the surface, giving the energy that comes in the form of thoughts, emotions and physical sensations a way to complete their cycles of healing. When you journal, let go of structure, perfection and judgment. Let the energy flow as it comes....even if it makes no sense. The intention is release.

Our minds have been groomed to make things complicated, but it can be simple. Give yourself simple tools to stop yourself from spiraling in the moment, but make sure you find a way later to address and process the thoughts that are coming up. Don't leave them to fester or you will be right back in the same tipsy boat.

Meditation and Journaling are beautiful ways to practice self care through processing built up emotions/thoughts. The meditation I have linked below will give you a relaxing way of letting your mind process thoughts peacefully.

Giving you big air hugs filled with compassion,

DeeDee