Are you thinking too much?
By Sharon Gorman, D.C.
A young man came up to me recently at DE to ask me a few questions about being in practice. After several questions over the course of the next 15 or 20 minutes it became very apparent to me that he was in his head too much. So I told him that he needs to stop thinking so much. He then told me that several people have told him the same thing over the course of his life.
Well I felt pretty good that my diagnosis was pretty right on but as expected he had one more question. How do I do that? How do I stop thinking so much, how do I get out of my head. I often joke that I need to stay out of my head, because there is no adult supervision in there.
Usually when I am spending too much time in my head the easiest way for me to remedy that problem is for me to get busier. The busier I am the less time I have to worry about why things aren’t working the way that I think they should be working. When I spend too much time thinking, I usually start second guessing every decision that I make.
Thinking too much for me though is usually just a symptom. It is a symptom that tells me that I am not in close enough contact with my God. I am trying to figure it out on my own. I am trying to control my life rather than turning my life over to my higher power and relaxing more. When I am in my head I find it almost impossible to stay in the minute. I am reliving the past or trying to control my future I am not just being in the here and now. What a loss, when I am in my head I am wasting the minutes that I get to be living my life.
In addition to feeling disconnected to God or should I say as a result of that disconnection I also am operating out of fear, not out of love that results from my faith. Life is much darker and scarier for me when I think that I have to be in charge. Every day before I leave the house (sometimes even before I leave the bed) I need to connect myself to my god (pray) and remember that there is a God and I’m not it. What a relief. I need to be less connected to the outcome and trust that all will work out the way it needs to if I stay on purpose and connected and am coming from a place of love and service to my fellow man.
Not thinking too much doesn’t mean your not concerned or lazy. It means you are operating out of faith and you are willing to expend you energy and life on doing things that can make a difference. If worry would be productive to you I would tell you to do it, but it’s not. What is productive is to walk forward with a certain measure of certainty and confidence that not all decisions might not appear to be correct but what it all boils down to is that any energy you put out in the universe will come back. So get into action and watch the magnificence of your life unfold and know that we all make mistakes and that’s good too, that’s how life teaches us lessons.
There is no such thing as failure, indecision and being in your head stops you from furthering the action. The only failure is in not being willing to move forward and that is usually what happens when you waste too much time in your head. Surrender and let your life unfold.
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Dr. Sharon Gorman is a Life Chiropractic College graduate. She associated with her mentor Dr. James Sigafoose, and opened her first practice in June of 1985.
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