 Yo, what up? It's your boy. That's the Pimpkins a.k.a. Jimmy no fro a.k.a. Jimmy the legend a.k.a. The Legendary Hip Hop welcome to the site to go YouTube channel today's topic that we will go over and discuss It's titled over thinking your thoughts how to let go this topic is very important if you are an over thinker and You really want to let go of over thinking this topic was brought to you by the author Sammy caramela R. Sammy caramela a.k.a Caramel Like that either way. I still hope I got your last name right cuz you know, it's me and I still hope I got it right still. Thank you for writing your article, and I really appreciate it So without further ado, let's get started. Let's go. So here we have the article over thinking your thoughts How to let go it was posted on October 25th, so you're hiking with your friend It's a beautiful crisp autumn day. The leaves are bright orange yellow and red You're standing on the ledge of a mountain that overlooks miles and miles in color and life You smile breathing in the cool air your eyes locked in the vast land ahead of you Your friend steps out on a large rock purged at the edge to snap a photo of the scenery Suddenly you think I could push her off the cliff right now. Whoa. What? It's a morbid thought and you know you don't actually mean it I mean you don't actually want to push your friend to her death, of course But the vivid image keeps me playing in your mind, and you can't help but wonder what's wrong with you Why would you think that way in the first place? The mind is a powerful strange confusing place We experience hundreds of fleeting thoughts per hour and while some people can simply brush off these innocent notions Others tend to dwell on them as a reflection of their own character, which is entirely daunting and counterproductive Here are some important steps to overcoming these instrucive thoughts Number one, accept it. Do not fight it. Do not beat yourself up over it Understand that you are not your thoughts. People struggle in this particular category They worry that every thought they think must be real According to Nancy Collier a psychotherapist and writer for psychology today We make a thought into a solid object by focusing on it and relating to it as if it is an event happening in the world Somewhere in other words, we give it power when really it is just an empty idea That is not even our own how freeing it is to know that if we do not attend to a thought Answer it change it identify with it and all the rest it literally ceases to exist If we let a thought be nothing then that's what it will be nothing Said Collier in why our thoughts are not real number two do not try to rationalize it Allow the thought to stay in your mind But do not feed it feeding it trying to make sense of it and allowing it to engulf your entire brain only gives it power Living with OCD I understand the nature of obsessive thinking after years of working through it when I went to therapy in the fifth grade My psychologist dr. Lisa Gallup advised me to avoid justifying my thought process by fighting myself I only dug a deeper hole repeat after me. She advised it's just my OCD again My brain is hiccuping again. Sometimes we think thoughts that have absolutely no correlation to us personally We cannot filter or control them the way we can with our words and actions It is important to recognize and distinguish which ideas are real and which are empty in order to let them go Fighting will only leave you tired and prone to more irrational thoughts Number three distract yourself By focusing your retention on other priorities You are allowing yourself room to move on despite the unsettled feeling you're experiencing from the thoughts I am in a better emotional state when I am at school or a job Which is why I tend to overwork myself at times if I am ever stuck in a loop I know not to stay in bed and dwell I know to get up and do productive tasks in order to keep my mind busy Erin Magaleta an OCD sufferer shares a similar outlook When you keep your mind busy on work or school or even listening to someone else's problems instead of focusing on your own It can really help with the missing your obsessive thinking if I'm focused on something besides what's bothering me It gets pushed to the back of my mind and the thought gets farther and farther away Sitting around thinking all day will only make the cycle stronger and attract even more negativity Don't let yourself fall victim of the thoughts. Don't let them cancel your plans or hinder your goals and finally laugh at it You know what they say, laughing is the best medicine. Try it. Make a joke of the thought. Tell yourself how silly it really is Odds are someone else has moved over the exact same idea or has simply waved it off as senseless You know who you are and the fact that you even second-guess a thought means it is unlike you It is not you. Everyone experiences these types of thoughts. You are not alone. You are not your thoughts About the author, Semi-Keramella Or Keramella, I'm not sure. But yeah, hi, I'm Sammy a 20 year old girl living in Jersey I am a writer and a reader battling OCD and anxiety. I love the life I live and wouldn't change a thing. Feel free to reach out to me I love to chat. Be sure to check out more of her blogs on her profile page. The link will be in the description box below Thank you for reading personally coming from my experience of overthinking like I have had just moments of overthinking things I've had too much thought put into one thing. They say like what you think about it comes true But too much overthinking, you know, just it's like putting the stress on some kind of chain or something Hopefully I made sense to y'all and I said all that but if I could truly tell you anything It is you have to all the things that's presented in this topic. You got to be able to let it go Just laugh at it, you know distract yourself Still this topic is great for anybody that has this sort of problem and now it is time for my three questions Number one, are you an overthinker number two? I personally want to know how do you feel about overthinking like I mean personally? I want to know does it help you does it not help you like I want to know in three If you are an overthinker and you want to get rid of that for good And you feel like this or anything that you do could help you out Tell me what are the things that you could do to get rid of overthinking leave all of your answers in the comment Section below and I will definitely get right to them. Thank you all for watching today's video I really appreciate it if you guys like what you saw then please comment like subscribe do what you do best Also our informations in the description box below. We just came out with a magazine. It's freaking awesome Go get it download it digital pick it up do it read it You're gonna love it cuz it's time to go also if you like what I did today Then you can go subscribe to my youtube channel which is right here on the screen Which the link is also in the description box below So yeah, you can just go subscribe and you'll love my channel. 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