T. Harv Eker says overwhelm is fear of scarcity, especially time scarcity. His fix: pause, breathe, and focus on what you're doing right now instead of the problems piling up.
Overwhelm is the experience of fear. It's the experience of fear. What is the fear? Scarcity. Of what? Time. Lack. Of what? Time. Not enough. What? Of time. Right. That's a. That's the fear. Fear. Not enough. I won't get this done. I won't finish. I won't be able to do the other things because I'm doing too much of this thing. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Lack, lack, lack. Scarcity. Scarcity. Scarcity. All right. It doesn't feel good. That's why overwhelm doesn't feel good. It feels pressure. It feels stress. Why? That's all fear. All anxiety, all fear. It's the same stuff. So you can say, well, the answer is cut down the to do list. Try that experience. Because our way of thinking is our way of thinking. So. So what's the answer? Learn to manage the mind. The mind that's bringing up those fears. Remember some people just whistling and doing it happy is a plan. Doing it. So not to say that this person, whoever isn't happy doing it, but when the overwhelm comes, you're not happy, okay? You're not content. You're out of the present. The mind isn't activated in the present moment. So, number one, to alleviate overwhelm, all you have to do is breathe and come back to what am I doing right now versus what, what am I thinking right now? What I'm thinking right now is problem, problem, problem, problem, problem, Overwhelmed overwhelm. That brings up overwhelm, pressure, stress, versus what am I doing right now? And then just simply get back to doing what one is doing, bringing the attention back to the present moment. The only way to alleviate overwhelm is bringing the mind back to the present, as overwhelm is based in fear, and that's out of the present.
