Don’t Overcomplicate

Having such vast depths to our minds makes overcomplicating trivial matters a common occurrence. Overcomplicating means reading too much into an event or situation, putting too much thought into something which put simply would allow it to be easy to navigate. Things as simple as texting, meeting someone new or even simply walking through a bush can become another worldly problem if it is perceived incorrectly. Slow down, simplify, and prevent your thoughts from running wild. It will savour your health and provoke the most natural well minded solution to every scenario.

To overcomplicate is to indulge in the unconscious. Eluding oneself from reality into a domain of fear and unwarranted protection. Thoughts steer toward positive or toward negative, on or off, hyperconsciousness or unconscious. The way the mind leans under stress determined by the trainer and the training.

Fear

Fear. The illusion which robs us of our grateful thoughts, a projection causing a vigorous stir, why is it we can turn even the simplest things into an almighty roar, something so innocent draining us of all our rapport.

Our minds are designed to protect us from pain, physical and psychological so it anticipates it, pretending to prepare itself in the stoicism fashion as if it were to happen. It floods itself with possibilities which could result in your utmost destruction. Substances which would tear you from skin to pore. Cripple you in mind and in action. This devastation will elude you. The mind, although striving for protection, only causes an irrelevant grief. This is fear. If we perceive a bear in the bush, then every branch snapped, and every rustle made will be inflicted by that same perception.

What about a significant other, where true emotion lay, when you sense withdrawal or when texting isn’t the same way. We jump at conclusions that we are the problem behind it. We become confused, infused with a little sadness, a problem needs resolving and we forget how to go about it. Pull back or reach forward? Be blunt or confront? Express or digest? The confusion resides resentment, and through small inconvenience we sprout imminent dangers. This is what defines a scenario stretched with over complication.

Simplify

Do not overcomplicate. Simplify, take it one step at a time without illusionary thoughts. Using the previous scenario it says, give patience, then a listening ear. No resentment is built, no miss judgements made. Just time for the other followed by clarification for oneself.

Simplify says use the things you know, and trust you already have the correct answer, no need to waste effort and time with all the what ifs.. What if this. What if that. What if nothing decides to go my way. What ifs lead us into a stalemate of perfectionism, a need to be certain we won’t fail. Don’t question too much. If an assignment is due, start by writing the title, if your hubby’s on a night out wish him the best and to get home safely, if an interview is scary know that you have talked to people before and only you know the answers about yourself, prepare but don’t freak out. One step, then the next. Known information is better than false accusations, do not fill the mind with our self-inflicting imaginative thoughts.

Trust

Trust not on the protection of the perceptions in your head and instead trust that if anything bad were to come to fluorescence you would be strong enough to deal with such an event at the time of its occurrence. There is no need to mentally prepare for something which may never take place, it is silly, stupid, it makes us anxious it causes us to suffer when there may not be anything to truly suffer for. We have to be smarter when it comes to our mind, it’s a hard thing because it can be our greatest asset and our most depreciating liability. It has to be tamed not abided by. Is pain worth enduring? There is a pleasure in pain which makes it so addictive, which makes suffering so addictive, an endless downhill spiral of negative thoughts and continuous sadness. Do not fall into this loop. The loop of thinking of pain. Pleasure hormones are released when we picture our own suffering, it’s a funny ordeal, pain equals pleasure which invokes us to seek more pain through an amplified state of negative thought, which once again produces more of this hormonal pleasure through pain, then again, and again, a continuous downward spiral.

Trust completely, be grateful, and have a little faith that whatever were to happen within your life is yours to overcome at the time it takes place. You are brave, you are strong, you are a leader and a leader does not occupy their thoughts with things which do not yet exist. Thoughts and feelings can sabotage time or provide the most effective means of using it. Unconscious or hyperconscious, negative or positive. Trust in yourself to deal with anything that comes your way, but do not waste precious moments in anticipating it. To think wisely is to be a philosopher, is to be a psychologist. To explore knowledge and truth instead of fear and falsehood, gossip or jealousy.