Feeling Overwhelmed, Simplify it.

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We have often heard people saying that they are feeling overwhelmed, but what does this actually mean?

Google defined feeling overwhelming means- " if you are overwhelmed by a feeling or event, it affects you very strongly, and you do not know how to deal with it." The feeling of being overwhelmed is very common in people, it is the default state in most of us. We are overwhelmed by it all: all the things we have on our plates, all the things we have on our plates all interruptions and messages, emails all the things online and on social media news and chaos of the world, and all the things going on in our relationships. 

It's a lot!

The problem isn't the abundance, but our fear and anxiety about all of it. Actually, for most of us, the fear is that we will let people down. We will one of the many balls we have in the air and let people down, or worse we will drop them all and we will be exposed as inadequate!

Here is a small practice you can follow if you are feeling overwhelmed. It is a 3-step process:

1. Soothing your fear- the first practice is simply noticing your fear and anxiety in your body, We get caught up in the thoughts and our body also gets involved in it panic attacks, shivers, sweating, heavy breathing, crying all these are the symptoms we feel below our head. Take some slow deeper breaths, and give yourself some loving compassion and some time. This is a simple, powerful practice.

2. One thought at a time- only after you have done the first practice should you take on this one:      take one thing from the huge pile and focus completely on it, pick one thought from all the thoughts going through your head and try to look on it don't label your thoughts as positive or negative just try to accept the situation as it is.
 
 3. Take action, protect your time and energy- it's action time now value your time and energy don't waste it a lot on feeling bad about things that are not in your control, its better to take action on the things that are in our control only things that are in our control are- Your thoughts and actions,          What you give your energy to, The goals you set for yourself, How you handle your challenges,            How you spend your time, How you speak to yourself. When there are very few things that you can control then why worry so much?

These are a few practices you can keep in your mind and face the next situation with better things, Gautam Buddha has concluded after all the preaching and teaching that life is full of sufferance and always will be no one in this world has figured out everything only thing we can do is work for our sanity by becoming more accepting and calm to the situation in life. Problems will be there in life so it is better to become well-equipped.

Hope you liked today's blog and find it useful, please do share your thoughts and comments on this.

Thank you for reading, I come up with weekly blogs every Saturday!

                            
                                       


Comments

  1. TaxakNovember 25, 2022 at 9:50 PM

    Surely gonna apply this practice. Thankyou for writing this😊 Waiting for the next week♥️💯

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  2. shishirNovember 26, 2022 at 3:49 AM

    Nice to see you are touching life in your writing for benefit of others, if followed well

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