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How to Stop Overthinking and Find Peace


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pease thinit waters diving deep once
again how to stop overthinking
constantly and actually find your inner
peace we are out here in nature baby
whoa breathing in that good ass prana I
get over 1,000 questions every single
day and a lot of them have to do with
overthinking
so neuroscience says we have over 70,000
thoughts a day right between 50,000 to
70,000 thoughts every single day what
are you thinking of that’s a lot of
thoughts someone wrote to me saying that
they have an overthinking problem and
they don’t know what to call it so you
are you are basically wait a minute you
overthink aaalac when even had breakfast
yet can I get a Hello I got a problem
and I don’t know what to call it
I’m an over-thinker aaalac right forget
about alcoholic know over thing colic
like a lot of people on the planet are
over-thinker Alex as a psychologist as a
criminologist but more so as an infinite
being who loves the cat down the road
let me share with you what helped me
along my journey I went to university at
17 years old so I’ve been studying
psychology for a long long long time and
how our subconscious mind works for a
long long long time so I know a lot
about overthinking because guess what I
am also wait for it and over wait for it
thinker wait for it aaalac yeah that’s
right overthink aaalac
overthinking is not your problem
overthinking is a symptom from high
levels of anxiety slow motion this side
you can’t sit still I found out this
that our identity is what creates
overthinking go back to your old photo
album when you were really small see
what you were doing then tap into that
mind state you were in if you can do it
you’ll notice that you probably weren’t
thinking about a whole lot you’re
probably just smiling in that picture or
playing around or maybe you didn’t have
such a great childhood right but the
younger we are we tend to think a lot
less as we begin to create this identity
and from this country and this race we
have a lot to defend over thinking is
the Eagles defense mechanism when you’re
really young
the ego hasn’t had enough time to be to
be fully formed yet you’re still really
in your heart space
right but as your ego grows even larger
you’re like I am this person you better
put some respect on my name very
defensive so you’re always overthinking
the secret to stop overthinking is to
let go of who you think you are so let
me go over let me go over some steps
maybe 11 or so that really helped me to
stop over thinking constantly right and
to actually find my inner peace stanford
studies have shown and even Harvard
studies that overthinking kills your
productivity what’s even worse it
prevents your creative growth right
there’s a psychologist called Barry
Schwartz who talks off the paradox of
choice if you have a lot of choices
you’re screwed too many choices is a bad
thing a little bit of choice good when
you have too much choice in your life
you tend to overthink a lot okay so
let’s start with this have you heard of
a dream journal yes Ralph okay there is
something what I have called a think
Journal and I started I started writing
in the thick journal right have you seen
Emily that film where she is thinking
about what all of these random people
are doing at any given second right some
people are taking a dump right now some
people are making love some people are
going to school some people are driving
around the city yeah start making the
note of all your random thoughts
right that you have then ask yourself
are these thoughts serving me or are
you see have you ever noticed that we
don’t tend to overthink a lot about love
and happiness and how beautiful the
world is because when we do it’s never a
problem overthinking only becomes a
problem when we are in resistance to our
thoughts slow motion excite let me
repeat that overthinking only becomes a
problem when we are in resistance to our
thoughts when you are trying to push
thoughts away you got an overthinking
problem one over think aaalac because
guess what resistance make stronger so
by having this think Journal I started
to really see my thoughts and what I was
thinking by writing them down then I
would realize that I was thinking about
things and I was literally in repeat
mode I would just think about things on
my early journey I would always
overthink that like
would I even become anything in this
life right had a lot of negative
thinking if you realize the power of
thoughts you would never think the
negative thought again right dr. bruce
lipton we got a whole show on infinite
waters he came on he talks a lot about
epigenetics how the next step right now
our perception can alter our DNA right
the honeymoon effect when couples go on
a honeymoon they are so happy all the
time right well what happens when it’s
finished overthinking starts right a lot
of us we have a perception deception
problem on the planet right we don’t
realize whatever you focus on gross we
don’t realize that perception can alter
our DNA many of us don’t realize that
our perception is actually responsible
for our over thinking how we perceive
other people but more so how we perceive
ourselves and more so how we perceive
our thoughts you see
disciples monks right and they’re not
supposed to look at women why I have no
idea right
so they both pass very very beautiful
woman and now they’ve move they’ve moved
on and the first Zen monk has no problem
he’s like oh that’s fine no problem and
then the other monk is like I can’t stop
thinking about this woman and the first
monk is like I left her there you’re
slow motion aside in a nutshell we carry
thoughts all the time our perception for
the first monk it was no problem
to see a beautiful woman for the second
monk he was in so much resistance that
he couldn’t help him because he was he
was carrying this baggage with him are
you carrying unnecessary baggage in your
life Ralph I got bills to pay
right when the future looks uncertain a
lot of us turn to overthinking guess
what you can’t control the future oh but
I can Ralph try it out perspective the
next step right the high you go you’ve
ever been skydiving have you done that
as you do right yeah you start to you
start to see how small we are as human
beings ever been on a cruise ever been
on a cruise you start to realize like
gosh we are like tiny little dots on
this planet like the great Carl Sagan
talked off the pale blue dot that’s what
we are in this solar system just a pale
blue dot right
but you need a perspective to stop
overthinking constantly I got a sense of
humor right but at the same time I often
overthink a lot and I realize it’s
because I’m not getting enough
perspective I’m not getting the
bird’s-eye view I’m not seeing the
bigger picture right a lot of us we’ve
got a roof over our head you had
breakfast today we ain’t even had
breakfast actually no we haven’t but
you’re about to right you got a lot to
be thankful for the more perspective you
get the less often overthinking problem
you will have seven day vegan challenge
a lot of us eating artificial foods
drinking artificial drinks high caffeine
sodas right stimulants don’t do well for
over thinkers right magnesium does
though a lot of people who are chronic /
thinkers have a magnesium deficiency
magnesium you get that from the leafy
greens right and this will help
alleviate your anxiety which will help
you stop having so many thoughts flood
many of us don’t realize that we are
what we eat every 35 days our body makes
new cells from the foods we eat so you
gotta ask yourself am i eating fear
tortured butchered animals who didn’t
want to die or am i eating foods which
were Sunkist this is what I had to ask
myself and I noticed a massive
difference soon as I started to eat a
plant-based diet
I stopped overthinking so much because
like the cows were like mooing inside of
my stomach number four
we’re not even counting that’s too much
thinking next step I surround myself
with people who think a lot less right I
don’t want to be around a lot of nervous
people because now you’re making me
nervous and a lot of us we do that okay
a lot of us were in work which everyone
is talking about this and that and
that’s why you’re overthinking because
you are surrounding yourself with people
who have a lot of anxiety about the
future you want to surround yourself
with people who are doing like this
right so tuned in to the here and now
and that’s why many times I’m a scale
I’ve been skating since I was 13 years
old like skateboarders
are probably the most chilled out people
to hang around if you’ve got an
overthinking problem head to a skate
park right now cuz you’ll just feel so
mellow right and that’s why whenever I’m
overthinking I used to skate a lot I
still do not as much but it just
disappears because I’m surrounding
myself with people who think a lot less
because they’re so involved in what
they’re doing in the action in the
radical action right what’s the next
step become present occupy the present
now we’ve heard that so many times that
we’re like sounds bit cliche Ralph
that’s why sometimes we’re so big for
our boots we think we know it all and
that’s why we’re overthinking analysis
is paralysis you’re overthinking because
you think you know it all right but you
get caught up in the past you get caught
up in the future so you’ve seen this
mean that intelligent people often have
a hard time falling asleep due to
increased levels of brain activity right
now is that true or not it may be in
some cases but also there’s something
called EQ which is emotional
intelligence and once you start to
meditate a lot more you find that you
start to overthink a lot less and you
start to fall asleep a lot faster right
so can work can work both ways occupying
the present is about realizing
everything is happening in divine order
there are no accidents or coincidences
in the universe there is only divine
order right I’ve counseled
multimillionaires right they still got
problems occupying the present is about
realizing you have everything you need
in this society we have been sold the
illusion that we have to get something
to become something observe children
they have everything they need until we
tell them look if you don’t get an A
no more cookies no more vegan cookies so
they start having this anxiety from a
young age it now becomes a program so I
started to realize that I have so much
right I’m more than a billionaire or
trillionaire I am priceless
so this helped me is mindset because
it’s all a mindset help me move into the
present moment right and the more you
can start to become sensitive slow down
instead of speeding up because right now
we’re living in a world of instant
gratification where we think the faster
we get things done the better it is but
you see the faster you do things you
miss the attention to detail which is
the secret for stopping overthinking
fast is slow slow is really fast how
many times has this happened to you
right you’re rushing so much that you
lose your keys and now you got to
overthink a lot because you’re like
where did I put them you check in the
washing machine you check under the eye
in and it’s not there you check in the
most random places it’s not there you
got an overthinking problem cuz
you’re fast now became something that
slowed you down if you took time in the
beginning to slow down that would have
speeded you up in the long run slow
motion this site so occupying the
present for me that’s what I’m striving
to do every single day to say hey let it
go let it go just let it go let it let
it go what’s the next step is what I
call total total total body awareness
now I teach this I counsel people on
this inspire millions of people on this
and that is probably the greatest secret
to stop overthinking a lot of us we are
out of touch of who we are even we’re
not even in touch with our bodies
because many of us as soon as we wake up
we jump on the computer right we are
stepping by 2045 into something called
singularity where computers are going to
actually exceed the intelligence they
actually homes because I can’t believe
it yeah they’re actually going to exceed
the intelligence of human beings if
we’re not careful right we’re already in
transhumanism
where we are merging with the Machine
soon is going to be posthumanism right
where it’s already happened and then
singularity where the machines are going
to give us a run for our money look you
go into the supermarket you go into the
mall and machines are literally
replacing people oh my gosh total body
awareness is where you start stepping
into the action right yoga skating
walking weightlifting whatever works for
you
stop tapping into your senses the great
psychologist fritz perls right lose your
mind and come to your senses
like I had to write that down right when
I was 17 years old in the psychology
lecturer lose your mind and come to your
senses and the more I started to
practice that the more my anxiety
disappeared
therefore I began to overthink a lot
less become aware of what you are doing
with your body become aware of your
breath at every given second become
aware of your senses right the next step
is to realize that we really really
don’t control anything like we think we
do like we think I control this see
overthinking comes from the desire to
maintain an identity this is where all
our stress actually comes from
oh I hope people like me what would
happen if they don’t I hope I get more
like so but it’s all because we are
trying to control a persona a mass which
is not who we are
anyway so I started to realize look I
don’t control anything
we don’t even control who we can have
children with we think we do until you
start talking to people they’re like I I
would have never imagined I would have
met him or I didn’t I would have never
imagined I would have met her
we now have like eight children we have
a vegan farm but you can’t plan these
things is what I call divine order you
got to allow the flow be ebbing the flow
of life and realize that the more you
allow the more you move into the present
moment
right many of us we don’t want to let go
we don’t want to let go of control
that’s why we are overthinking
constantly right so we really don’t
control anything to be honest except our
perception of ourselves next step
practice mindfulness meditation I’m
telling myself this right now because
there is meditation and then there is
mindfulness meditation right so you’ve
seen the meme the guy in the dog and the
guy is thinking of so many things his
mind is cluttered right and the dog is
just seeing the tree right in front of
him like what I see is what I’m seeing
right a lot of us were caught back in
time right with somewhere else and the
secret is to be in the here and now a
hundred percent right so realize at all
times you have to be tuned in to what
you are seeing right not what happened
20 years ago which I know sometimes we
want to reflect back right so the next
step is set time to have reflection time
where I say allow yourself to over think
continue to over think right now a lot
of people don’t teach this because they
don’t know the secrets right allow
yourself to overthink right set time to
say one hour I’m gonna overthink until I
get water fit till I realize it’s not
doing anything for me because
overthinking won’t change your problems
right overthinking won’t change your
slow motion this side right the next
step was help me along my journey is to
surrender right surrender all the time
make sure you can surrender many times
we don’t want to surrender and the ego
never wants to let go once again the ego
is the primary cause of many of our
thoughts in excess right because the ego
is a control freak is sad to say but the
fact still remains it’s like that so the
more you move more into your heart space
which can only happen when you say I’m
just gonna do me I’m tired of trying to
win people over I am enough and what I
have to offer the world is surely enough
and I’m not gonna be so hard on myself
and what anybody thinks of me is their
business it’s not mine oh yes let’s talk
about another final step which is to
accept yourself 100%
do you like the way your body looks
today that’s a question for me to you
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there was a time when I wasn’t a hundred
percent satisfied with my body and
that’s okay but I was overthinking a lot
and then I realized this secret do you
know the more paranoid I became about my
body I got to go to the gym I got to
have a six-pack the more miserable I was
the more I actually accepted who I was
and then took step by step actually
learned how to free myself from all of
this pressure which was overwhelming me
which was causing the overthinking in
the first place so always say learn to
take the pressure off and that can only
happen when you stop comparing yourself
to other people where you say you are
where you are and that’s good enough for
you and they are where they are and
that’s good enough for them this thing
can change anytime nothing is permanent
right many times we are overthinking
because we are happy with who we are so
coming to love yourself 100% coming to
accept yourself 100% being in a league
of your own is the secret to stop
overthinking when you have no
competition which can only happen when
you learn how to own your witness then
you start cooperating with people you
will stop overthinking right none of us
are in control of when we’re going to be
out of here I’ve met people who have
everything and then they lose it
the next minute this is divine order
we are in control when you realize this
you will stop overthinking because even
if you’ve tried to think of it it
doesn’t change what actually just
happened instead of thinking about what
isn’t working in your life oh my life is
so terrible right now instead of
thinking what could go wrong on doomsday
paranoia why not begin thinking of what
could actually go right pronoia when you
realize and have this belief in this
mindset that the whole universe is
working on your behalf and then just say
feel so good to be alive baby Panna get
a hello there realize it’s not your
thoughts that are the problem it’s about
whether or not they are serving you have
a beautiful day we’re here diving deep
you
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