A short coaching-style monologue by Katie McManus about overcoming overthinking and emotional rumination to enable productive action and business success. The speaker defines emotions as "energy in motion," explains how rumination blocks work, and introduces a simple embodied exercise (imagining slowing a ping-pong-ball-like consciousness) to move thought from the head into the body. Ends with a CTA pointing listeners to a link in bio for the full episode.
When you get a text from a client who's freaking out about something, it's so easy to start spiraling, thinking, oh, my God, they're about to fire me. It wasn't until I was able to stop ruminating, until I was able to stop overthinking it, that I was able to get to work and actually make my business successful. The clients that you get for free or cheap will not value the work that you do. And because they won't value the work that you do, they will not see results from the work that you do. Things will never happen the way you think they'll happen. The universe has a wicked sense of humor. So worrying and stressing and ruminating and overthinking everything actually does not help you. It hurts you. We've spent a lifetime gaslighting ourselves out of our own emotions. The reason we cannot get out of overthinking is because we never actually learned how to process our emotions. We never actually learned how to let them move through us. It doesn't make you less than. It doesn't make you weak. It doesn't make you broken. One of the best definitions of emotions that I have ever heard is that it's really energy in motion. Think about when you're angry. Where do you feel that energy in your body? You can continue down this road of being an overthinker, of ruminating, of being a constant worrier about the future. That is absolutely an option for you. Or you can learn with me. I'm about to tell you how to move past that. If you really want to learn a new skill and you want to stop overthinking and stop worrying about the future and actually start living, then here's the really simple exercise that I practice and that I have my clients go through to get out of their heads and back into their body so that they can take action and actually build businesses that they're really proud of. And this practice is really simple. So when you're overthinking, you know that the energy is all in your head. You know, it's like you have a ping pong ball that's just bouncing around inside your skull, activating different parts of your brain. And of course, that internal narration that happens, the voice that just goes on and on and on and on about all the things that are going on. Just notice what it's saying. Just notice all the what if scenarios that it's coming up with. Just notice all the negative comments it has about you in the past or you right now and how it's never going to be good enough. And so on and so forth. Now, that ping pong ball that's bouncing around your skull, activating these different parts, I want you to imagine that you're slowing it down. You're just bringing it to kind of like slow motion ping ponging. Now, this ball is your consciousness. This ball is actually where you do your thinking, and you get to control where that thinking happens in your body. And if you want to listen to the rest of this episode, then go check my link in bio and tap on the weenie Castle.
