If You Overthink Everything…

Welcome to today's episode of the mindset mentor podcast. I'm your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. I put out episodes four times a week so that you can learn who you are, become better, improve yourself so that you can improve your life. So if that's what you want to do, hit that subscribe button, join us along this way. Today, I'm gonna be talking about how to stop overthinking. Because if you overthink everything, it's not because you love stress. It's because your brain is running old programs of the past, and it doesn't trust that you can handle what happens if something goes wrong. And so today, I wanna break down why all of this happens and then how to actually retrain your brain so that you can stop overthinking. Because if you don't understand this, you'll spend your entire life living in your head instead of living in your life. And so if you overthink everything, this episode can change your life. Okay. So if you're the type of person who overthinks, if you replay everything in your head, your conversations in your head that you had in the past, you're constantly looking for what could go wrong. If you think about every possible outcome before you make a move, I want you to understand you weren't born that way. That's not who you are naturally. Let that land for a second. Like, that's not who you are naturally. You became that way because of the environment that you grew up in. There's really only two reasons why somebody overthinks so much, and I'm gonna dive into those two reasons today as we go through it. Okay? The first thing that you really need to understand when we talk about overthinking is overthinking is a protection mechanism. Your brain is not just trying to protect you from danger, but it's trying to protect you from every possible outcome so that you can stay safe. It's trying to protect you from unpredictability. There's research that's been done on hypervigilance that shows when someone grows up in an unpredictable environment, which means, like, emotionally inconsistent parents or extreme financial instability or parents who have anger problems or emotional problems or chaos inside of the house or parents who just weren't emotionally mature enough, that the nervous system, your nervous system as a child learns one thing. If I scan enough all of the time, I can try to figure out how to fix the environment so that I can stay safe. And so what do you do? As a child, you learn to be hyper vigilant. You you can read tone shifts. You can analyze facial expressions. You replay what was said over and over again when whenever something happens so that you can do something different the next time. You learn to anticipate worst case scenarios, and you learn to overthink every …