It CAN'T Be Stormy & Raining Forever

It CAN'T Be Stormy & Raining Forever

How often did we hear this one-liner:  BE STRONG NOW BECAUSE THINGS WILL GET BETTER.  IT MIGHT BE STORMY NOW BUT IT CAN'T RAIN FOREVER.  Let's face it.  Regardless of your fame, fortune, OR abilities, life is always filled with difficulties.  You get to choose HOW you will react to those difficulties.   And learning HOW to deal with them in healthy and productive ways could [likely] result in personal growth and peace of mind.  And while everyone will agree that  It CAN'T Be Stormy & Raining Forever, our effective approaches to coping with life's challenges should be our focus because at the end of the day, we might be spinning in a loop of overthinking, instead of working from our strengths and taking time for our well-deserved self-care.  And talking about OVERTHINKING, WHEN problems arise in our lives, it is natural to focus inward as a way to try to find solutions to relieve the discomfort and unhappiness life's problems bring📗📙📘

True, WHEN problems do arise, the more we mull over a problem OR situation, the unhappier and more stressed YOU will feel, and YOU likely will NOT have found the solution yet.  In addition, OVERTHINKING has been found to interfere with our ability to solve problems, sap your motivation, and sustain OR worsen feelings of sadness.  Stopping OVERTHINKING is a lot easier said than done BUT psychologists still claim, we can hurdle it.  HOW???

Picking the brains of the SMEs, allow me to share here:

• DISTRACT yourself - WHEN you realize you are OVERTHINKING, find something fun [OR safe] to do to completely divert your attention away from OVERTHINKING
• SWITCH your thinking - Like screaming to yourself 'STOP!' then find something to think about that will NOT stress you
• SCHEDULE TIME - Set aside 15 to 30 mins each day to DO NOTHING BUT OVERTHINK.  Knowing that there will be a specific time for OVERTHINKING will help you to stop doing so the rest of the day.  Let's try this out.
• WRITE IT OUT - Write out your thoughts so you can organize and make sense of them.  OVERTHINKING complicates your thinking BUT writing down allows the dust to settle
  

Our eventual goal here is to replace our worrisome thoughts because true freedom comes in learning to replace obsessive and negative thoughts with either neutral OR positive thoughts at best.  We got to really remember that hard things in life DON'T and WON'T determine our identity.  Especially WHEN we are in a negative mood [WHICH does happen sometimes to us all] BUT the thing is, let us NOT look for the cracks.  OVERTHINKING uses up your mental resources, making it difficult to concentrate on other things💥💥💥

Our takeaway:  WHAT else can we do?  Allow me to state the super-obvious.  SOLVE WHAT CAN BE SOLVED.  Take a STEP [even if it's a damn, tiny, mini STEP] toward solving the problem[s] causing your OVERTHINKING and if you need to, you could write a list of every possible solution to the problem[s] at hand.  Let us take that concerted action instead of waiting for something to happen.  And yes, let us figure out the very 'TRIGGERS' of your OVERTHINKING and then avoid them OR alter the circumstances so they NO longer trigger OVERTHINKING.  Yes dude, IT CAN'T BE STORMY AND RAINING FOREVER😍😍😍