How To Not Overthink?

Let us assume that your brain is a megacity. And, your thoughts are the citizens of that city.

You can not ask the citizens to stay in their homes forever and never get out of them just because you want your roads to look super cool without being congested by traffic. You can not stop them.

So is the case with your thoughts. You can not stop them. They will definitely flow. But, you can regulate the traffic of the city by implementing a few rules and regulations for the citizens.

Maximum use of public transport is one of the few solutions that are really effective.

Focusing on one incident for many hours is like driving cars while they are each occupied by one person only. You occupy a lot of space, the traffic moves comparatively slower and is a very ineffective way of transportation.

In the same way, if you keep focusing on one incident, you are wasting your valuable time, you can't focus on other important things and is very useless.

Driving bikes is similar to focusing on different incidents at the same time. If you can't regulate bikers properly they create a mess. It creates chaos, makes the congestion the worst and is painfully slow.

In the same way, if you focus on different incidents at the same time, you might have a headache. You won't be able to come to a conclusion, waste a lot of time and it makes your mind a mess.

Moving from point A to B by just walking without the use of any transportation mode is like focusing on one important incident of your life for not just hours but for days and days. It's really really slow, you take many days to reach the destination and is exhausting.

In the same way, if you focus on one incident for many days, it will exhaust you. You may never come up with a decision and you will miss out on other important aspects of your life.

Interestingly if all the citizens are wise enough to use the public transport, the city will be in a much better state, there will be no chaos and the lives of citizens will not be miserable because of traffic.

It will reduce pollution and make transportation quicker and cheaper and affordable for everyone.

In the same way, if you can label your thoughts, put them in the respective buses and transport them to their destination, your life will be much better.

Different buses run for different routes. You should also train your mind in a similar fashion.

Thoughts of Negativenagar should be made to sit in one old bus and transport it out of the city and should not be given any kind of importance.

In the same way thoughts of Worrypur, Frustrationnagar, Guiltpradesh, Shamebandar, Embarrassabad etc should be labelled accordingly and made to sit in very old buses and should be transported to the dump yard.

Such citizens(thoughts) should never be given any kind of importance. Buses transporting them should also be not looked after.

Your focus should be on really important citizens who contribute to the development of your city.

They should be provided with luxurious buses and their buses should be looked after very often.

Their routes should be paved beautifully and should be kept neat and clean.

Your thoughts about your goals, dreams, development, people you love etc should be given the utmost importance.

See, it's your city and you are the master of it. I can't get into it and help you out in any way.

I have shown you how it's done, which I have learned over the years.

Now, it is up to you, you own it, you are the boss.

You can destroy it or develop it, it's in your hands.