How to Stop Over Thinking and Get Some Sleep
Rumination, or obsessive over-thinking about your situations or life events, is linked to sleeplessness. It can easily become a cycle.
No Questions When You’re In the Right Place
Difficult decisions can lead to a cycle of over-analysis, which in turn makes it harder to decide. We've all been there. The thing is, as you know, those questions don't trouble us when we are in the right place.
Ruminating – How to Let It Go, These Ideas Will Help
Following my post Let It Go a few days ago I received a question. I've edited it, the gist was: “How do I let go, if I cannot turn it into action? I would love some practical advice on this. It sounds so easy, but I find it very hard.”
How To Solve a Problem Without Focusing On It
Problem solving is stimulating and satisfying. Finding a solution to a problem can be so satisfying that you'd think we'd be better at doing it.
Automatic Thinking Doesn’t Mean All-Powerful Thoughts
There's no need to be ruled by unwanted thoughts. If you are – though it may seem that you have no control – there are ways to change the habit. Like most things, it takes a little practice, and the first and most important step is to lose the idea that you can't.
Your Intellectual Diet
I’m not promoting some high-brow agenda, I’m talking about how we seem to have an unhealthy preoccupation with the negative things that surround us.
Brooding: It Rehearses Failure
Brooding will not only get you down, it'll make the misery seem more real and present. Reflection is good, but brooding is not; it is simply reinforcing the bad stuff, in some cases preventing us from moving on it our lives.