Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)

by Nick Trenton

Stress is a fact of life, but overthinking is optional!

gain conscious awareness of our thought process, be proactive about stress management, and learn real techniques to ground and focus our thoughts.

Our main goal in de-stressing is to pinpoint exactly what is going on in our heads when we overthink. It’s about identifying the triggers that set us off as well as the effects of that overthinking once it begins. When we can see the process clearly, we can then begin to take informed action. But the necessary starting point? Awareness.

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Overthinkers are typically intelligent, but sometimes that just means they’re really good at hiding obvious things from themselves!

These are avoid, alter, accept, and adapt.

Stress management is about removing those unnecessary stressors, but it’s also about proactively making room for those things in life that we enjoy and which refresh and regenerate us.

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

“That’s not true—you can’t know the outcome because it hasn’t happened yet. You have many talents and you’ve worked hard.”