Dr. Aravind Padmaraju explains that overthinking is your brain's protective response to unprocessed emotions like fear or anger. When you can't find a safe answer to one worry, it spawns another, creating a cascade that keeps you awake at 2 AM. The fix: stop asking how to stop overthinking and ask what you're actually feeling instead.
Chapters
विराट कोहली फ़ियर्स पाकिस्तान, विराट कोहली फ़ियर्स इंग्लैंड, विराट कोहली फ़ियर्स अफ्रीका। but when he lands to the pitch, everybody fears Virat. and here is a difference between you and him. your mind is not overthinking because you have too many problems. it is maybe trying to protect you from something. think about Virat Kohli before a high-pressure match. imagine if he started thinking about what if I get out, what if I disappoint everyone, what if I lose this game? if he kept following every thought, he probably would not be even be able to focus on the next ball. But here is what interesting. Your brain does the same thing. Something happens. You feel scared, hurt, angry, or uncertain. And instead of dealing with that emotion, your brain starts looking for answers. And if that one answer does not make you feel safe, it creates another question and then another question and then another question until you are sitting there at 2 AM Solving the problem that haven't even happened yet. But what if the real problem is not that you're thinking too much? What if you never learned how to deal with this emotion that starts the thinking? Because once your brain recognizes the pattern, it can start doing it automatically. So the next time when you catch up yourself with overthinking, don't immediately ask, "How do I stop this overthinking?" Ask yourself, "What I am actually feeling?" feeling right now. Because if you can catch that emotion before the overthinking takes over, you can gradually learn to control the pattern. And if you want to understand these patterns at the deeper level, comment mind, and I will send you the details of my 2 days of the Heal and Manifest Bootcamp.