Overthinking Is A Symptom Of Helplessness
Overthinking happens when you are trying to find a loophole around the reality presented by your instincts.
Most of us have been severed from our instincts. Since childhood our intuitions invalidated. So we grasp on to what little control we have, and like overprocessing robots, we go around overcalculating.
This keeps us busy. Our own thoughts keep us distracted. The over flowing of redundant thought creates a wall that divides us from truth.
Meditation and/or extreme physical exertion temporarily silences thought. The barrier to truth becomes momentarily unblocked. Your intuition activates.
Trusting that truth may take time and repeated meditation. Start small. Act on small things first. When the small things prove true, try trusting your intuition on bigger things.
You will see that the more you trust your intuition, the stronger it gets. It will lead you out of overthinking. It will lead you to your highest life.
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My wife is a severe over-thinker and I'm a severe under-thinker!
The internet is full of advice and signs of over-thinking. You would think the world centers around over-thinkers.
What about us poor under-thinkers? I hate deliberating and hemming and hawing. I prefer to not consider options for more than a minute. I don't lose sleep about my decisions. Regret is wasteful.
As they say, shit or get off the pot; that is my life motto :)
I like how deep you get into the nature of what understanding is. I've been looking at understanding from 3 perspectives, Philosophical, Practical, and Scientific.
Understanding transcends knowledge acquisition, involving grasping deeper significance (the Beach - using your example) through critical thinking, reflection, and synthesizing viewpoints.
Philosophically, it explores underlying principles shaping reality.
Practically, it manifests as applying knowledge effectively through problem-solving, adaptability, and experience.
Scientifically, it seeks comprehending the natural world via observation, experimentation, identifying patterns, establishing causality, and developing predictive models using quantitative reasoning and data interpretation.
To me these philosophical, practical, and scientific perspectives collectively help me deepen my comprehension, enabling navigation of life's complexities as making sense of the world 🏖