Have you ever caught yourself overthinking things? I certainly have. In my experience, there are two reasons why people do so:
- Passion and perfection: Overthinking is, in many cases (definitely for me, personally), connected to passion. Yes, it’s great to be passionate about something, but when passion turns into the need to be perfectionistic, it becomes a problem – it holds you back from actually completing something. You will never get it as perfect as you want to – but you may get close!
- Am I good enough? Another reason why we have these internal battles, is because we think everything we do isn’t good enough. We turn simple tasks into complicated projects, overthinking everything, simply because we don’t have faith in ourselves.
Let me tell you a secret: Your mind can be your biggest asset – but it can also be your biggest downfall. It can be hard to control your thinking because you may be reacting out of past experience or conditioning.
The key is training your brain – to learn how to operate with a new normal.
For example, I’m an introvert, and for many years I struggled with internalising things. I let my mind build all these negative scenarios, and never faced my insecurities in a healthy way.
Today, I’ve come to a place where I’ve been able to train my brain to be a little more extroverted – to to be different to my former “normal”.
The fact is, ultimately, you’re in charge of what you think. With God’s help, you can change your thought patterns.
The Bible (in 2 Corinthians 10:5), actually speaks about taking “captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ”.
It’s time to start changing the way you think.
Godspeed.