What Truly Can Help to Stop Overthinking

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:28.2	I want to talk about overthinking, overthinking, overthinking, oh, I'm going to get the cycle.
0:34.8	Mental lapse around a thought again and again and again. It's exhausting. It's exhausting.
0:44.1	One of the reasons it's exhausting is that your brain and then your body thinks, oh my God, it must be a very threatening situation.
0:57.5	She keeps going, she keeps going over it, over it, over it, over it, and your mind and body gets stressed.
1:05.3	Now, normally, when you've got to think of something and deal with it, it's good.
1:12.4	Parts of your brain are activated to respond to an immediate stress.
1:21.4	But it's draining when that part of the brain is activated chronically.
1:30.6	Like you turn on the spout, have a little water.
1:33.1	Good. You can wet things, make soup, whatever.
1:35.5	You just leave it on. It's not a good thing.
1:41.8	Thinking is not a problem.
1:45.0	As a matter of fact, I recommend it.
1:49.0	Thinking is not a problem.
1:52.0	Reflecting, planning, rehearsing.
1:58.0	It's a good way to march forward in life. Yeah, making decisions, yes.
2:07.5	Oversthinking is when that inner dialogue becomes repetitive, repetitive, repetitive,
2:15.0	unproductive, repetitive, unproductive, repetitive, repetitive, unproductive, repetitive.
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