Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron, and I help people
Expand their consciousness now this video. I'll be showing you how to stop overthinking
Over analyzing and how to actually trust the course of your life
Now this video can help transform the way that you think and the way that you
Identify with what you think and for me? This is one of the most powerful
Ideas that really transformed my life, and I'll give a little bit of a backstory
I've explained some of these ideas before, but this was a question that I got asked yesterday in the comments on
Yesterday's video and what I want to do is kind of explain it in a way that I think is packaged
And there's easy to understand now. I used to be somebody that was very
Identified with negative thinking, and it would make me very anxious and just to give a little bit of a backstory
I went through a lot of pain growing up
I went through a lot of situations and from that there are two routes up could have gone
I could have gotten down the road of feeling get victim like guilty mentality like why did this happen and
Constantly beat myself up about it and the other road was the road that I eventually got to because the pain got so much
That I had to learn how to dis identify with the things that have happened
To really feel them and then to let them go and not to let that be my story
anymore and the way that I did that was I remember I learned how to meditate and I was so focused on trying to
Control my thoughts it was shortly after I learned and watch the movie the secret, so I'm like oh my thoughts were very powerful
They're creating my kind of experiences
So that's when I started it in a way like sabotage myself because I was so focused on controlling
But what I found was is the more that I tried to control what I was thinking the more that it actually
Resisted the more that I actually was like me versus me
It was like there was almost just resistance that was naturally building
But I remember about two or three days into meditating
I began to just simply observe my thoughts
It was almost like there's the reactive mind
And there's the spot that we could get into there's this little bit of space where we can observe
that reactive mind we can learn to observe what we're thinking of and I remembered that it was a paradox because as
I wasn't trying to control my mind as I was just
Observing the thoughts that would flow into my mind they would come in. They would go out
They would eventually start to slow down
So the key to this is understanding that this is not about controlling your mind
that if you try to control that will build resistance instead
Allow the thoughts to be there and observe them from a neutral place
now in order to understand the neutral place
I've used this analogy before but imagine that you are sitting at a park on a park bench
And you are just there observing your surroundings
Just relaxing if you watch what people walk by you're just observing them walk by you're not judging them
You're not putting labels to them and if you do have the mind puts a label on them you're not identified with it
You're just observing what's happening now in the way that a dog might walk by you
you would just observe the dog walking by you wouldn't try to
Follow the dog you wouldn't try to control the way the dog is moving and the same way treat the thoughts the same way
Don't try to control the thoughts that come into the mind just watch them as they go through
just allow them to be there in the Paradox is that in
Allowing them to be there eventually they will go away more and more
Now think of your mind in the neural networks of how we think in the form of momentum
When we give momentum to the way that we're thinking when we give?
Identification with those thoughts we are strengthening the neural circuitry in our brain
We are making it have more and more power over us
But the moment we observe those thoughts the moment we start to neutralize the charge of that momentum
Then we can put it in the direction of where we want to go so the key to over analyzing and overthinking is
observation and understand it might feel a little bit hard at first, but the more you do it the
Easier it becomes for me it took a couple times of meditating before I got just a taste of it
It was like I did it and like a day or two later
I did it again
And it was a little bit easier to get to that space
you'll find there's also a feeling that comes with this and a simple technique to
Really get out of overthinking is to bring the awareness not to the intellectual illness not to the head
Bring it into the body by feeling into your sense perceptions
That means put the awareness into your hands put the awareness into your chest into your legs
just simply put the awareness there think about it and as you think about feeling from that it brings the
Awareness to where then you can't be over identified with thinking now a lot of the techniques
I share in this video came from a book called the power of now by Eckhart Tolle
And it's very powerful because it's so simple
It is really so simple, but think about it the mind wants complex strategies complex techniques
And that's why most of what I share on this channel
I try to break these complex ideas into the most simple way we could possibly
Understand it because then it's practical then we can apply it and the next time you find yourself with a momentum of overthinking
Start to observe the thoughts let them be there
Don't resist it allow it and watch how with time
They begin to less and more and more and you get to the space of observation that is a very good feeling
That's what they call presence you become
present to the Moment
now the other part of this is letting go of the self image and the label of you being somebody that
Overthinks and somebody that over analyzes
When you think of yourself do you put the label on yourself of I overthink too much and I overanalyze?
And if you do it's okay, but realize you can start to view yourself as this person
That's able to observe and as you observe that part of yourself
you will start to feel that that is who you are you can let go of these labels and
Start to really let go of that emotional baggage that comes with it, and you can start to identify
with being somebody that
Responds rather than reacts there is a huge difference in that now another part of this is understanding
that if there's something we want to create if there's something we want to experience and we
Overanalyze it we build resistance and we actually create a barrier to us experiencing it
Realize that any time. We overanalyze what we're saying is we don't trust in the natural course of our life
We don't trust in our greater self and being able to make this happen. We need our ego
Which is a very small part of ourselves to control everything
Then the ego is trying to do something. That's not its job
the job of the Ego is to
Focus the job of the ego is to decide what it does and doesn't want but it's not the only part of ourselves
The idea is that we can?
realize that the more we over think and over identify with our thinking the more we're not trusting in the larger scope of
What we can accomplish and really who we are
Realize the job of your ego is to simply focus
but to understand that that's not just who you are if you put the trust and the
larger part of yourself by trusting the process of your life
Everything will begin to change you won't be so
Identified with that thinking because you'll observe the egoic thoughts you'll observe that reaction mind
And you'll start to then actually observe it from a point of response
That's where the biggest change can be and one of the biggest changes. That's been made in my life is
realizing that in the moment of stimulus in the moment of thought
There's a small space and in that space you can decide that
That is a part of who you are or that's not a part of who you are
You can decide to think more of it or to think less of it and in that moment
You can observe it and that will neutralize
Everything so the most powerful technique that you can apply is to simply observe your thoughts
Bring the awareness from the head and into the body
Feel into it
And then simply trust the course of your life and knowing that everything will happen the way
It's meant to happen and your job is to simply decide what things mean to you and decide to be present to the moment
So with that being said I hope you guys enjoyed this video feel free to like this video if you liked it subscribe
If you haven't already and as always I will see you guys on the next bit peace much love
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