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Summary of Stop Overthinking 

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Stop Overthinking reveals the inner obstacles to a meaningful life and provides techniques that will help you maximize the potential of your brain and control your thoughts. In addition, it explains how to reduce stress and live a life free of worries. Although you might not be able to prevent negative thoughts from crossing your mind, you can choose not to dwell on them. In this summary, you will learn to overcome negative thought patterns by replacing them with positive thoughts and attitudes. Author and accomplished skier Nick Trenton earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics and MA in Behavioral Psychology. A farm boy who grew up in rural Illinois, he currently resides in Chicago and aspires to travel the world and host a food show like Anthony Bourdain. “...knowing your values doesn't automatically make you good at setting goals. You need to deliberately make sure you're setting the kind of goals that are most likely to be reached.” ~ Nick Trenton

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Thinking about something for too long often leads to distress

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We live in a highly cerebral world where our brains endure overactivity because we overthink. Those who can't control their thought process tend to overthink, which leads to anxiety. Constantly analyzing our lives and actions is self-defeating and will not benefit us in any way. Naturally, our brains were designed to solve problems and comprehend things, but overthinking does the opposite; it is characterized by feelings of awfulness and is harmful to mental health. Below are some symptoms of overthinking:
• Always being conscious of thoughts
• Inability to control thoughts
• Hating spontaneous thoughts and feeling that some thoughts are unwelcome
• Thinking feels like a struggle between competing impulses
• Constantly questioning, doubting, analyzing, or judging your thoughts
• Seeing self and personal thoughts as the source of your problems when faced with setbacks
• Focusing on understanding thoughts and digging into the inner workings of the mind
• Having issues with decision making and doubts regarding choices made
• Worrying and harboring concern about many things at once
• Engaging in negative thoughts patterns
• Thinking about uncontrollable past events
Overthinking delays the decision-making process, thereby impeding progress.
Although some of the above qualities seem good, we could begin to think above and beyond what is beneficial. Thinking is an awesome gift that allows us to reflect, analyze, and interrogate everything, including our own thought processes. A brain is an amazing tool, but we tend to undermine its power when we overthink.

In this summary, you will learn to stop overthinking and put your brain to good use instead. Additionally, you will discover ways to strengthen your sense of control and generate hope and excitement rather than fear.
Our daily habits can feed our anxieties and result in overthinking in subtle but significant ways. ~ Nick Trenton
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Genetic predisposition plus stressful precipitating events equal overthinking

Overthinking is when you can't stop analyzing, evaluating, ruminating, and worrying excessively about things to a point where it begins to affect your mental health. Many people believe that anxiety is the root cause of overthinking. However, there are a lot of factors that cause anxiety which can be intrinsic or extrinsic. Here are two main sources of anxiety:
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The main goal in releasing bodily and mental tension is to identify what is going on in your head when you overthink

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Learning to manage your time and energy reduces stress and helps you achieve your goals faster

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Autogenic training, visualization, and muscle relaxation work to prevent you from overthinking

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Persistently engaging in negative thinking is detrimental to your health and increases anxiety

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