Calm And Centered AF

Three Ways To Embrace Peace and Let Go of Overthinking

• Cheryl J Reynolds • Episode 6

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What if you could transform overthinking and feel peace of mind? 

Together, we'll explore the sneaky nature of overthinking and discover how it keeps us from aligning with our intuitive selves.

This episode offers three effective strategies for breaking free from the cycle of chasing distracting thoughts that keep us entangled in a web of overanalysis.

Overthinking can feel like a default setting in our busy, information-overloaded world.

You'll learn how to let go without attachment.

Approach situations with curiosity instead of engagement

And a fun way to change your overthinking mental rehearsal right away.

Let's get you feeling Calm and Centered AF



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Speaker 1:

Hey, my intuitive friends, how are you doing? Are you lined up tight with the universe, feeling all in alignment with your intuitive ways, or are you feeling as though you're chasing shiny objects everywhere? Oh squirrel, let's chit chat. Welcome to Calm and Scented AF, the podcast that guides you back to your path with a touch of serenity and a dash of sass. I'm Shara Reynolds, your hosting guide, and I welcome you. This pod is for my intuitive souls, who veered, off course, somewhere between overwhelm and anxiety. But not to worry, I got you, my friend. It's time to step up and bask in your brilliance, where you'll feel lighter, more relaxed and fully in control. And I'm going to help you do that by kicking overwhelm to the curb, ditching your anxiety, and help you stop chasing those shiny objects like a distracted squirrel. Here you'll find quick, actionable steps, insightful ideas, humor to light the way and a whole lot of Zen. So grab your coffee and buckle up buttercup. It's time to get you feeling calm and centered.

Speaker 1:

Af. It is a busy world out there and information streams at us fast and furious. It becomes way too much and sometimes it makes you feel like you're in a constant state of overwhelm. And on top of that, you begin to overthink and overanalyze everything. It is exhausting and I bet you were so over it. Well, I have something for you. It is called Frazzled to Focused. It is my mini course, designed specifically for the intuitive overthinker who is stuck in her head, spinning her wheels and can't settle her mind. For more information, go on over to calmandcenteredafcom. Forward slash focused.

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Welcome to the podcast today. So I want to talk to you, my friend, about overthinking. Yeah right, it's kind of interesting because when we overthink, sometimes we don't even realize we're doing it. It's part of our default mode. And the thing with overthinking is it's sneaky. It sneaks up on you. You're going along fine and all of a sudden, something gets stuck in your head and you're like, oh, what's that? Hold on a second, I gotta get myself all organized here. I'm falling off my chair, oh, my gosh. Oh, and you're listening to me. How don't you feel better? Anyway, and all of a sudden you're following that thought down a rabbit hole and then it's on your mind all day and you can't get it off of your mind. It is stuck like glue. Isn't that a song? Stuck like glue? Yeah, I'm not going to sing. Anyway, I digress. See what happens. This isn't even overthinking, this is just my distracted brain.

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I want to give you three ways to lower and decrease that overthinking so you can just go through your day, because when an intuitive person overthinks, it is very hard for us to tap into our intuition. All right, the first one is you don't have to follow every thought down the rabbit hole. You don't. You have to understand what happens when it comes to thinking. Thinking is a process that happens in your brain automatically. It just keeps going and thoughts are going to come in your brain, whether you want them to or not.

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The first step is to not follow that thought down a rabbit hole. Let that thought just pass on by If you don't attach to it and if you don't, you know, grab onto it it's going to leave your brain. That is number one. Number two if that thought or that situation, you know, kind of has an emotional charge to it. Like an example, you just talked to a friend of yours and she said something that made you upset and now you're taking that situation and you're spinning it over and over in your head because you're trying to rationalize what happened and you know you're hurt. So there's an emotional attachment to this. What I suggest to do is to sit down and let that thought move through your head, but just watch it. Just just watch what your brain is saying. Watch what your brain is doing and do so with a little bit of wonder and of curiosity. You don't need to engage in it, you just need to watch. That is number two. Number three this is a little more tricky, but if you can do this, it will help you every single time.

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What I want you to remember before I tell you what to do here is you know we all grew up with this whole thing that adults said to us or we all said as kids to each other. And sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me. Yeah, okay. And you know, as an adult, we realize that words have power and words can hurt and harm, and words that we say to ourself can even be more detrimental because our brain believes ourselves. So the next time you have this thought that goes through your brain, whatever it may be, let's go back to the situation where your friend said something that hurt your feelings and just say she said to you that, oh yeah, just too emotional or something. Now you know that may not bother one person, but if you are emotional, that may really kind of bother you, because that's how you navigate your life.

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This is something I want you to try. I want you to take that word or that statement and I want you to say it. And then the next time, I want you to say it slower Okay, you're too emotional. And then I want you to say it slower, more pause, you're too emotional. And I want you to keep saying that for another minute or so, expanding it and making it longer and longer and longer. And then, after you've done that, then I want you to go back and say the statement again.

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Normally, you're too emotional. I guarantee you, what's going to happen is you're probably going to giggle, and the reason why is slowing it down completely. Takes the emotional charge out of that thought and out of those words. Okay, my friend, you have three things to do next time. Overthinking starts to kick you in the butt. But there is one more thing that I want you to do. I want you to go on over to the webpage commoncenteredafcom forward, slash, squirrel, and I want you to take a look at that page, because I have a mini program for you that will help with just this situation. All right, I'll talk to you later. My friend, you have a great day, stay common, centered. Bye-bye.