Are you facing an Overthinking problem?
Hey friends, if you are also troubled by the problem of overthinking, you feel that your mind is always racing and you can’t stop it even if you want to trust me, today’s article is for you, and you should watch it entirely.
This article will completely change you, and your problem will likely be resolved. In this article, I’m going to tell you about a very interesting book. This book has personally helped me a lot as well.
To fight against overthinking. I’m going to tell you something amazing today. That will help you improve your life. Just like books have helped me too. Now let’s start. Modern Japanese warriors whom you might also know by the name Samurai. These warriors were very famous and fierce, and they earned a great reputation. Why? Because they were indeed very dangerous. There’s an interesting story related to this, about a disabled but very smart Samurai.
That’s why they understood one thing: if they ever went to war, they fought. For them, it was very important not to have too much time for peace or overthinking.
For example, if an enemy was approaching them, who was about to kill them, and at that time, those people started overthinking. meaning the enemy coming, how big is his sword, will he strike me from here or from there?
“If they start fighting like that, they begin to think about time and start overthinking.”
“So this thing could have been dangerous for those people and it was.”
“Therefore, the samurai also”.
Started learning a concept of intelligence, which is called Mushin. Mushin is a state of no mind. Or you can say. It is a state of mind without mind, where a person lets go of all their thoughts, “anger, fear, ego, and all distractions.”
In this state, a person can take action based on instinct. Without any hesitation or overthinking, this thing. Learning for the samurai felt very important, and they indeed learned One of the reasons was also that, which is why they became even more famous.
Now, learning Mushin was as essential for the samurai as anything else.
I think in today’s time, it’s also very important for you to learn this. We people are also very stuck in the problem of overthinking and distractions. The acronym “Mushin” you’ve created stands for “Don’t Believe Everything You Think,” incorporating six words.
Mushin is an Acronym
Important lessons are hidden which I will reveal to you one by one in the article. If you learn these 6 lessons, you will also understand Mushin. and your problem of overthinking will almost be over too.
So let’s start, now I ask you a question
“Don’t think too much and answer immediately.”
“how much money do you want to earn in a month?”
Alright, now let’s get something done! sure, if you’ve decided, go ahead How much money do you want to earn without thinking too much, okay, now let me tell you how you can earn money.
Start thinking about it now. Done thinking, now notice something very interesting when I asked you, ‘How much money do you want to earn? If you had spoken without thinking, you might have felt no stressed. Or felt some discomfort, frustration, or irritation.
Once you started thinking about it, you might have felt like, ‘What I have dreamt of earning millions and billions of rupees. How will I achieve that?
“Once you entered thinking mode, you must have started contemplating.”
Then you must have started feeling a little pressure slowly
Now, if I were to tell you, ‘Stop reading the article and just think for half an hour or an hour
“About how you can earn this money.”
So, trust me, after half an hour or an hour, you might feel a lot of stress, burnout
You might feel frustrated, and that’s exactly what happens, and that’s where it comes
Momentum:
Our first concept is about momentum, which you should learn. Look, don’t believe everything. you Think The author of this book says that in both thought and thinking Maybe you won’t notice much of a difference, but there’s a world of difference between the two.
Thoughts are a noun, while thinking is a verb. In thinking, there’s momentum just like you might have learned in physics. For you, it can be both good and bad. Like, for example, it might happen many times. You wake up in the morning, thinking you’ll go to the gym, and work on your goals But instead of doing it, you start watching reels and by watching reels, a lot of your time has been wasted.
As the time came to go to the gym, your mind didn’t feel like going to the gym, which is why you became lazier When it was time to eat good food, I still didn’t feel like eating good food. Because it occurred to me, buddy
I did not go to the gym Alright, I’ll start tomorrow. And just like that, you ended up in negative momentum on the other hand, perhaps this thing has happened to you many times It has happened to me too I woke up in the morning, but I didn’t feel like going to the gym Then I thought, let’s do one thing I go to the bathroom and then I went to the bathroom After that, I packed my bag. Until now, I didn’t feel like going to the gym.
As soon as I started packing my bag I felt like, let’s get going, let’s go. We’ll do a little bit And then, when I reached the gym to do a little bit, instead I ended up doing a fairly good workout.
This is the power of momentum Now, momentum has a very significant impact on changing our lives. The problem is this momentum We tend to use negative things more often, especially in thinking While this thinking itself is the root of all chaos You will also understand more clearly in the next point Before that, you should look at the graph of thought vs. thinking So that you understand why momentum in thinking is important for you. It’s not good at all and living just in thoughts might be better for you.
Unbiased
Now let’s move on to ‘Mushin’, which stands for unbiased. Imagine you went to a party You are enjoying yourself with your friends, your girlfriend, your family, or your wife when suddenly you get a call this call is from your bank.
The banker calls you and tells you that your account has been hacked. Due to this, someone has robbed a good amount of your money you have been scammed. what is going to happen in such a situation?
That party was awesome, you were enjoying it. They were dancing, it would start to look dull. You won’t feel like dancing Your mind will start working You will get into thinking. Dude, what’s going to happen now?
“Will I get my money back or not?”
“Who stole it?”
I became frustrated The notable thing is that the party is still the same. All the other people are still enjoying. But your world must have completely changed. Why? Because one thing has changed Now you have moved from thought to thinking there is a saying in Buddhism, they say that whenever A negative experience or event occurs in our life. This is just like two sharp arrows
They are coming towards us, one of which hits in the first go When a physical event occurs Then the second arrow that is, is an emotional arrow that gives more problems than the first one and keeps troubling us for a longer time but the good thing is that the second arrow is optional.
It depends on us how long we let the second arrow affect us Letting oneself suffer Many times, physical reality doesn’t change people. When it comes to this event, what things do we start to think about Those things change our lives.
The ‘U’ in Mushin stands for unbiased, and it tells us this. We shouldn’t go into thinking mode by catching the events. Because it’s also possible that the call that came was a fraud. Or it could be that after enjoying the party, the same thing happens. Go and talk to the bank person and recover the money.
Whether the recovery happens or not, there’s no benefit from thinking.
Stillness:
The ‘S’ in Mushin stands for stillness. Imagine that you are passing through a jungle. You are enjoying the jungle very much as you wander Then you are continuing and suddenly a bit of mud starts to come to your feet.
As you keep taking steps, this mud increases even more and as you keep looking, you realize that now you are stuck in the mud. What will you do in such a situation now?
Well, most people will panic here first. They will start hitting their hands and feet.
They will start trying to run away.
But if you have seen Bear Grills in childhood. On Discovery, you must remember one thing, if you get stuck in a place like mud. The more you try to hit your hands and feet, the more chances there are That you will go further inside.
If you have to leave from there, it’s better to calm down and give some time to yourself
Let Buoyancy work, and then gradually make your way out any time when with humans.
When any bad event happens, when anything bad happens, people talk about it.
They start thinking too much. Then people watch motivational videos. Many people say, think positive, think positive. You must have noticed it too.
Thinking positively becomes quite difficult in that bad time. so what do we do at that time That’s why authors say, at that time, don’t think positively Instead, you should follow the concept of stillness. Here, you don’t have to force yourself to think positively.
You don’t have to do anything, for example.
If I bring dirty water in a bowl and give it to you, which has a lot of dirt in it. And tell you that now you have to clean it. If you start hitting yourself with your hands and feet clean it. You start removing small dirt particles from the corners of the house repeatedly with your finger.
So instead of the water getting clean, you will start appearing dirty. You will become frustrated and perhaps not be able to clean the water at all. But if you won’t do anything at that time, then the dirt. If you just give it time in the water, then the dirt itself will settle down below Whenever you encounter any negative situation When there is a stressful situation, our instinct is The terms ‘fight’ and ‘flight’ mean taking action. To do something or the other, that’s how it is Like trying to clean muddy water with your hands
We need to only come to a neutral state at that time. and after some time, our negative emotions itself. They will start to pass, and we will begin to feel better. Now I’m saying this to mean that you become like a robot. Who has no emotions inside and who never feels anything or does anything. not happy in life, nor sad; well, that’s not true either.
H Harmony with Happiness
Now, let’s explain what’s on the “H” of “Mushin”, which is harmony with happiness.
there was a time when the author used to question everything why is it like this, why is it like that? At that time he had a girlfriend called Starlet, he loved her a lot
In the course of the conversation, she asked Macken, ‘Why do you love me? His girlfriend thought for a moment and innocently replied, ‘I don’t know.
“Afterwards, She asked the author, ‘Why do you love me?’
So the author began counting them one by one. I like your laughter. Your heart is very pure. How do you love your family so much that you are intelligent? As such, the author listed many things.
After that, time passed. Time kept passing. now it’s been 6 years Even after that, the author asked his girlfriend why she loved him. So she replied the same, I don’t know, I just love you. at this time, the author became a little bothered. He thought, ‘Man, I’ve told her all the reasons why I love her.
But she can’t tell me a single one. Well, the author didn’t dwell too much on it and started moving forward. A few months later, when they thought about this again
When they exactly loved their girlfriend, the author got the epiphany that changed their life significantly When he asked himself why he loved his girlfriend.
She is a very good person because her smile is very nice, and she helps others.
“What if tomorrow she doesn’t help someone else, what will happen?”
“What if she doesn’t laugh the way I like, then what will happen if she explains everything?”
“What if she doesn’t do what I like?”
“Will I still love her?”
Then they realized that these reasons were not reasons. Rather, they were conditions they had set. They knew that even if these conditions were not met, they would still love them and this is called unconditional love, which should often be in a relationship.
Then they realized that their girlfriend couldn’t make the list. “So it wasn’t a bad thing but a good thing because she loved the author unconditionally.” perhaps that’s why their relationship was going so well.
Because reasons often change throughout life. But love should not change, and this thing is a very important key to happiness. Many times in life, we bring a lot of conditions that ‘I will be happy. When I earn ₹1 lakh, ₹1 crore, or when I do this, or when I do that. Like this, we often bring conditions into our lives.
However, the stupidest thing is the conditions we are setting.
We don’t know how right these conditions are or how long they will last.
Yes, even if we start earning ₹1 lakh tomorrow, we don’t need to find happiness from that ₹1 lakh.” So it’s important that we in our lives Love others unconditionally, and also love ourselves.
When we start laughing based on conditions, we start smiling. so this restricts us
People like that often start feeling sad and depressed. It is better that we unconditionally. Live your life, and do the best work. Neither put too much pressure on yourself nor others. This thing will also help in reducing overthinking for us.
Inspiration:
Authors say, there should be goals, but goals are of two types. One is inspirational goals and the other is desperation goals many times we watch a video on YouTube, we watch anything.
And then our mind wants to earn crores, so I should also earn one crore. if he is creating YouTube videos, then I should also create YouTube videos. If he is doing business I should also do business and earn 10 crores.
And then in such enthusiasm, we set goals.
Which authors call desperation goals. When we talk about such health, even in health, people set desperation goals. If I have become too fat, then okay, now I will show by losing 10 kilos. After which, people cry in desperation. In making their lives tough, they work like crazy. They lose 10 kilos and then achieve several goals again.
Still, they do not find happiness, and those people gain back their weight.
This thing happens to many people.
Authors often suggest that you should set inspirational goals for yourself. It means You should set goals to have five out of six days in a week. I want to go to the gym every day so that I can feel good.
The most important factor of the series is its inspirational aspect. and it will tell you the difference between inspirational and desperation goals. If you have set any goals for yourself. as soon as you start thinking about that goal, you start feeling pain.
Your heart starts feeling heavy. You start feeling stressed. It means now you have set goals of desperation. When you set inspirational goals, you feel light. You work while feeling good, not just for the results. Rather, you focus on the actions and engage in them. and this is what you have to do.
Mushin N Never ending emotions:
Now they come from this comes the last ‘N’ of Mushin, which is never-ending emotions Our emotions are like a pendulum, on one side of the pendulum. Your thoughts, as long as they keep coming to you, you will continue to feel good.
But since the pendulum is on one side, it will eventually swing to the other side. and when it swings to the other side, then you will get into thinking. Now it is necessary to tell this thing You have watched the video. Now you will think, ‘Man, I won’t even think anymore.
I’ll stop everything this will not happen Your pendulum is still there, it will keep swinging between thought and thinking. Your emotions will keep fluctuating from here to there
because we are human, so we shouldn’t be bothered by that. and we should remember that our emotions will continue to fluctuate.
We just have to try to stay as much as possible in thinking, apart from thinking. should be in good feelings Live feeling good. From that, our overthinking will also decrease, and we will get more results in life.
No matter how much you know, if you once locked up your mind, if you have given up in your mind that you cannot do something, then even if the door in front of you is open, you will still think it is closed.
You won’t be able to get past it. So, stop locking up your mind. As a result, those people are not becoming rich or not reaching the top positions. One of which was a lock: the lock of overthinking. In today’s article, I have given you the key to that lock.
I have told you how you can unlock that lock.