HANG ON! LET ME OVERTHINK

 Whenever I've gone through periods of overthinking in my life I've tried to find ways to stop it. Googling things like how do I stop overthinking and finding advice like let go off the past and learn to control your emotions but it never worked for me because i had difficult time buying into the whole stop doing this or that kind of mind set. I guess I just don't really believe that you can just shut down your thoughts but rather you should learn how to deal with them. So, rather than shutting down any feelings, we need to learn the difference between  productive and unproductive overthinking and aim at focusing on future rather than on the past.

Some times it is difficult to distinguish between productive and unproductive overthinking because in reality, it's not about how much time we spend overthinking, it's rather how we spend that time. You'll never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your false thoughts. Overthinking is parasitic, its viral. It's deadly, even letting yourself fall victim to overthinking doesn't just kill your happiness, it destroys who you are. The mind is a beautiful and complex thing, and the only person who can hurt yourself is you. So, learning productive thinking is an important part of  stopping overwhelming thoughts.

To think productively, we should be honest with ourselves and accept the truth. You must be thinking, why will we ever be dishonest with ourselves. There could be a lot of reasons for why we are not honest, maybe we are avoiding something, maybe we are ashamed or regretful, or fearful and nobody wants to feel those things. We are scared of what might come out of truth and as honesty takes courage, we are rather comfortable with the lies.

I still find myself getting lost in a lot of thoughts that just lead me to disappointment. i still overthink about silliest of things. I am not a master and I am okay with that as long as it is not doing any harm to my mental health.

It's time to be happy. Being angry, sad, overthinking is not worth it anymore. Just let things flow. Be positive.