How To Overcome Overthinking

Through bouts of depression and through self dissection I’ve come to realize something. 

As human beings, we have probably been living life in backward. We over analyze ourselves and the universe. Our intelligence being the curse. 

It is a curse, because we tend to let our intellect trump our instincts. We let ourselves linger on topics that we never really grasp, and cause o

urselves confusion, and to some extreme, self pity, and self-absorption. These three emotions: confusion, self-pity, self-absorption lead to fear. When we are fearful, we shut ourselves down, and refuse to live and move forward. 

However, there is a solution to overcome this problem. 

The solution is simplicity. Give intelligence boundaries. Do not let it wander. Do what instincts say to you. Your instinct (yes, that 85% of your brain you do not use), wants you to succeed. It wants to sit in the driver seat and tells your intellect to get in the backseat. It will drive you to happiness. It will do what it needs to do in order for you to survive. 

Don’t think. Just Do it. Simply, just follow your heart is what I am telling you. 

Note: I’m not telling people to throw intellect out the window, because it is what keeps us rational, but rather just set it itself, and sometimes just believe in yourself. Think of it this way. It is like what facts, evidence points you in one direction, and your instinct is telling you that the direction is wrong, and your instincts end up being right at the end of the day, and that is because you trusted your instinct and followed through. 

Every tool has limitations and purposes. Sometimes we rely too heavily on intelligence, and consequently, our intelligence over rides our basic instincts that were put in place to give us happiness and success.