Vagus Nerve and Overthinking: A Guide to Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve and Declutter Your Mind. Techniques to Stop Worrying, Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Overcome Chronic Illness, Trauma, and Depression. by John Harper

Author:John Harper [Harper, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1. What Is Overthinking?

I don’t know what’s going on. What if this decision is the wrong one? What if I’m making a huge mistake? Why is this happening? Is it me? Am I the one to blame?

The mind is our more precious tool. But what happens when our thoughts start to get out of control? Humans are gifted with a superior thinking capacity that sets us apart from other living beings on this planet. The human brain can create great things like buildings, literature, movies, novels, and thousands of other inventions that have enhanced our way of life throughout history. It is remarkable what we can do when we put our minds to it.

Thinking allows us to excel in school, go to college, plan for the future, get a job. No doubt, our mind is our biggest asset, but what happens when the mind stops being your ally and starts becoming your enemy? What if your mind starts to get out of control and starts eating away at your happiness? What would happen if your mind started producing destructive thoughts that threaten to hold you back in life and ruin the relationships you’ve worked so hard to build?

Overthinking Explained

Thinking too much. That is exactly what it means to overthink. When you spend too much time thinking instead of taking action, when you analyze and repeat the same thoughts in your mind but do very little about it, you’re overthinking.

Overthinking happens when you take a relatively simple or small situation and blowing the problem up far bigger than it needs to be. For example, should I wear my new shirt for work today? But what if everyone teases me? What if I’m too overdressed for casual Friday? They’ll think I’m silly or trying to be far too fancy. Maybe it’s not such a good idea to wear my new shirt after all. I should save it for another occasion. But what if that occasion never comes up?

Or how about another, more relatable example of overthinking happening in a relationship. You send a text to your crush whom you’ve recently started dating. You wait eagerly for their reply, but an hour passes. Two hours. Three hours. Still nothing from them. Your mind starts to go into overdrive. Why aren’t they texting me back? Are they busy? Have they lost interest in me? Was it something I said? Maybe they’re annoyed that I’m texting them first. Maybe they want to break up with me. Could they be ghosting me? Is it me? Why does this always happen to me?

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