How Stop Over Thinking | Buddhism In English

foreign a quick question are you having sleepless nights because of these heavy loads of thoughts that are coming and looping inside your mind or are you someone who is Imagining the worst case scenarios all the time whenever you're going to do something new or are you someone who is worrying about what other people will think of me well if you are such a person you might be overthinking so let's find out a way that where we can get out of our head and quit overthinking and get the works done so what we can do for

this well the first and the foremost thing that you have to do is to realize that overthinking is not going to help you in the process right you can plan you can analyze but do not overdo it if you are over planning if you are over analyzing it's not going to help you right it will distract you distract you from the process the first thing that you have to realize is that overthinking is not going to help you the second thing you can practice to be mindful now this is a practice that that you can

do to stop overthinking to be mindful to practice the mindfulness so how can we practice the mindfulness so there are many ways that our great teacher Supreme would that taught us to be mindful one of them is to be mindful about the breathing pattern which we called Anna panasati right when you become more mindful about this inhale and exhale your mind instantly come to the present moment now you're only thinking about inhale and exhale you're being mindful about that now instantly you reduced these thousands and thousands of looping thoughts to two thoughts what are those

two two thoughts in hell and exhale so when you're thinking like that and when you become mindful normally automatically you will find the peacefulness and you will stop overthinking about these things right so whenever you catch yourself overthinking what you have to do take three deep breaths in and out right and just stay for a while by being mindful about your breathing pattern or you can be mindful about your body right you can ask from yourself that how am I sitting now right what am I doing now and you ask these things from yourself you

can answer these things like I'm sitting now you can recognize when you do do these things you can be mindful if you're mindful your mind is in the present moment and when your mind is in the present moment your mind is in the peacefulness there's a saying and it goes like this if you are sad then your mind is in the past if you are anxious your mind will be in the future but if you are peaceful and if you are still your mind is in the present moment so start living in the present moment

right when you live in the present moment when you live right here right now you can be more peaceful and you can stop this overthinking patterns right and also there's another part of overthinking what is that the what if question right so many people ask from them that what if this happened what if this not happens right what if everything that I did was wrong they are constantly thinking about these things like that right they're imagining these worst case scenarios so I must say something about them right so if you're thinking this what if question

again and again you can't ask from yourself what if everything that I did was okay you can be positive what if everything that I've planned and I've done was really great so that can happen there is always many possibilities for your plans to go okay so don't be negative all these things think I'm not going to be perfect right I cannot be perfect but I can be the best version of myself I can do my best I must do my best and be positive and go for it and take risks without taking risks we cannot

be successful in our lives so practice these things right be more mindful right be more kind to yourself and always think that if I overthink if I constantly worry about myself it will kill the peacefulness of my life so I hope this video gave some light to your life so be peaceful and be mindful and get out of your head and start doing the works that you haven't done