Thoughts are the reflection of a person’s personality. Positive thoughts take a person to the heights. While the lowness of thoughts pushes him into the depths of humiliation by turning him from Azazel to Iblis. A person who is constantly immersed in the world of aimless thoughts becomes addicted to mental torture, while a person who lives the present moment to the fullest uses all his abilities with full diligence and mental equanimity.
Overthinkers tend to indulge in two types of thoughts; Either they are burning the ashes of some past event or they are wandering in the unseen world of the future. Their personality remains locked in a shell, their attention is distracted from the task at hand. If they are in a seat, the conversation becomes irrelevant. Due to absent mind, they cannot express their conscience openly and suffer from unseen fears and suffer from insomnia, irritability and gradually suffer from many other diseases.
Reasons:
Fear of Failure: One of the major reasons for overthinking something is our inner fear. Due to a failure in the past, this fear is embedded in the heart that what will happen if this work is not done right this time too.
Being under the influence of a trauma: A sudden event or a trauma also takes a person very far in the oblivion of aimless thoughts.
Negative emotions: Thoughts are the source of your emotions. As you are feeling, thoughts and events will happen. For example, if you leave home in a good mood on a car or bike and someone tries to overtake you wrongly on the way, you smile and let him go. But if you are in a bad mood, the reaction may be different because negative emotions lead to negative thoughts.
Negative company: The company of desperate and hopeless people also makes a person like that.
Due to the background of family background: Pathetic thoughts of a person are also transmitted from the ancestors to the generations.
Disadvantages:
Physiological effects: Overthinking causes stress, which leads to a decrease in cortisol, and this decrease reduces mental capacity, even shrinking it by depleting brain cells.
Gone time is not lost again: The most valuable thing in this universe is time, the right use of which makes a person successful. A person who is always immersed in unnecessary thoughts spends hours in this state. As a result, his personal life becomes chaotic and irregular.
Insomnia: Overthinkers are generally prone to insomnia. Which itself is a precursor of many other psychological diseases.
Grumpy Irritability and other psychological disorders: Pessimistic thoughts make a person moody and irritable. By doing useless analysis on pointless things, he becomes prone to diseases like irritability, weakness of the nervous system, laziness, Depression, Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia. According to a study, every year eight lakh people die of depression and related diseases.
Social Isolation: An overthinking person becomes a dysfunctional part of society. As a result, he becomes socially isolated and unwanted in his social circle.
Deficiency in professional affairs: Performance in professional affairs is adversely affected, like if you are working on a mechanical machine, your hand may come into contact with a part of it, and if you are working in a bank or financial affairs, you A single digit error can result in a loss of crores.
Getting worried over trivial matters: Gets worried unnecessarily over very small matters, even trivial tasks seem like a mountain to him.
Lack of creative skills: His creative skills are also reduced.
Treatment:
Attention: Whenever unnecessary thoughts bother you, engage your attention and tendencies towards a positive mood. It gives mental equanimity.
Change of environment: It is very important to change the environment around you in order to get rid of negative thoughts and make yourself happy. Consider the scenery of nature. It will force you to smile by taking away from disturbing thoughts.
Avoid disappointment: Disappointment is disbelief, keep it away from yourself. If you fail, what happened because only the knights fall in the battlefield, life goes on and success and failure are the colors of this life.
Tendency towards religion: Almost every person in the world turns to religion in difficult times, so get in touch with spirituality. Prayer is the best practice to concentrate the scattered thoughts which we can do 5 times a day.
Adopt a positive approach: It is very important to let go of the disturbing thoughts of the past, to look at things in a bigger frame, how important that particular thing or event is in your life now, the thought of which is hanging on you.
Be in good company: Be in company that speaks of hope rather than doom and gloom, of light-hearted problem-solving and open laughter.
Passion, obsession and attention: The tradition is known that a person was praying when Majnu passed in front of him in search of Laila. replied that I am not aware of anyone except the one whom I am in search of. But what is the use of your worship in which your attention is on someone else than your Lord. So treat whatever you are doing as worship and bring perfection to the point of obsession.
Trust: If a person starts thinking of himself as the total intellect, then he starts holding himself responsible for every failure. Allah certainly tests His servants, as it is said in the Holy Qur’an: “Did We create you only to play?” And won’t you come? Yes, one must try, but one should believe that Allah does not burden any soul beyond its capacity.
Develop Problem-Solving Thinking: An overthinker tends to think of his or her biggest problem, focusing on the problem rather than the possible solution. Get used to tackling problems with positive and constructive thinking.
It is mentioned in a tradition that once it was announced that you can exchange your problems and sorrows with someone else at such and such a place. All the people put their sorrows in a bundle and carried them on their shoulders and gathered at the desired place so that when ordered Can replace the ball with another one. But each other verbally understood that the problems, diseases and sorrows of others are many times more than them, and it is not like that they embrace the problems of another by coming out of one problem. He carried it back on his shoulders again. The only difference was that these sorrows seemed heavy when coming back, but now the same lump seemed light – we should adopt a positive lifestyle and play an active role in the society instead of being afraid of problems by falling into baseless thoughts.