Every body has the habit of thinking about anything and one should think before doing anything as it’s a good habit. But there are people who over think about an issue and fall prey to many diseases like depression, high/low blood pressure etc though slowly. This is the fact one cannot stop thinking in today’s competitive world, when things are difficult to achieve one has to think for anything he/she may do or has thought to start . Those who don’t think before acting may not get success in their life. Therefore one must think but should not over think for issues they get in their lives.

There are few good reasons for not thinking much:

Your thinking cannot change actions

One must always remember it that thinking can never change actions but one need to really work for it rather than just thinking. This happens with many of us we think a lot for the things and don’t act for them which un necessary lead to our failure and cause a stress for not achieving what we had thought. So we must think and should align our thinking with the situation to get over with the situation as per our desire. I always try to act more and think less about the situation and I do get benefits by it otherwise I know I may end up wasting my time.

Things may get over complicated

You must analyze what sort of problem you are in. If it is difficult then you must not make it more complicated by thinking much about it. It happens with us that any simple problem also we make it more difficult for us by over thinking Consider an example of a student who is going to give an exam. It would definitely make him more nervous if he thinks about the question paper more and more. I often have seen people forgetting things which they have studied well if they think more while going in to the examination hall. The problem with all of us is that when we do something difficult and complicated then we think it must be important but in actual it is not but the fact is anything is not difficult but we make it difficult by thinking it to be difficult.

Low performance

When we over think we make things complicated and thus we become nervous and make a mess for us. It becomes difficult for us to concentrate on the things and make a habit of just thinking about it. All of this result in our final output and our performance gets worse due to this.

Question is how to stop thinking so much?

I am a thinker but I avoid over thinking One must avoid it by always keeping few things in mind:

First and foremost is we must know that we have the habit of over thinking as there are many people who may have this habit but may not be accepting it. People who don’t accept it can’t get rid of it. When we know it then we can easily analyze the  situation where we may be over thinking and stop doing it.

Second is one should fix a limit to think say one must fix a time for thinking about a situation as 10 minutes instead of thinking about it for days. Consider an example that I should not think petrol rates are increased how I am going to cope up with it. Its better to have strategy like  to make a budget and find out the ways for saving some extra money to compensate with these increased rates rather then thinking about the increased rates for days. I feel that would be a better strategy then to over think and stress my mind for it.

Third one is important just think about present and not about the past and future. I have noticed that people who live in present are more happy in their life than those who remain worried for their future and think about their past. They must leave past and forget what happened in the past as it can’t be changed by just thinking about it though we must take a lesson for what mistakes we did in the past and should try not to repeat them in future.

These are few tips how we can stop over thinking about our daily issues which may un necessary lead to problems and can’t give us the solution for those problems.