STOP OVERTHINKING
3 Books In 1: Overthinking, Self-Discipline, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Declutter Your Mind, Create Atomic Habits and Happiness to Manage Anger, Stress, Anxiety and Depression
Book 1
OVER THINKING:
Declutter Your Mind, Overcome Negativity. Create Atomic Habits to Stop Worrying. Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Depression. Improve Your Brain, Social Intelligence and Self-Confidence.
Book 2
SELF DISCIPLINE:
Develop Mental Toughness and Focus On Achieving Your Goals. Learn Daily Habits to Program Your Mind, Build Self-Confidence and Willpower, Manage Anger, and Become Highly Productive
Book 3
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY:
Retrain Your Brain. Master and Train for Happiness. 7 Simple Strategies to Free Yourself from Anxiety, Depression, Panic Attacks, Stress, and Intrusive Thoughts
Table of Contents Book 1
Table of Contents Book 2
Introduction
Chapter 1.What Is Self-Discipline
Chapter 2.How to Develop Self-discipline
Chapter 3.Motivation
Chapter 4.How to Manage Your Time Productive Efficiently
Chapter 5.Improving focus and concentration
Chapter 6.Build Mental Toughness
Chapter 7.Build Routines and Habits for Ultimate Self-discipline
Chapter 8.Being Self-disciplined
Chapter 9.Gratification and How to Delay It
Chapter 10 . Dealing with Negative Emotion
Chapter 11 . Staying Self-Disciplined
Chapter 12 . Tips to Build Self-Discipline
Chapter 13 . The Pitfalls of Improving Self-Discipline
Conclusion
Table of Contents book 3
Introduction
The History of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Chapter 1 : Identifying the Problem
Step 1: Identifying the Problem
What Are Automatic Thoughts?
What Are Intrusive Thoughts?
Chapter 2 : Routine To Train Your Mind
Chapter 3 : Master and Train Happiness
Chapter 4 : Strategies to Eliminate Problems
10 CBT Instantly Calming Techniques to Change Your Thoughts
Unraveling Cognitive Distortions
Cognitive Restructuring
Exposure and Response Prevention
Interceptive Exposure
Re-scripting and Playing the Script until the End
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Relaxed Breathing
Talking to a Loved One
Physical Exercise
Self-Monitoring DAY by DAY
Chapter 5 : Identifying Problems and Setting Goals
Chapter 6 : The Behavioral Side of CBT
Behavioral Activation
Graded Exposure
Addressing Maladaptive Coping Mechanisms
Chapter 7 : Mindfulness
What Is Mindfulness?
Presence
Acceptance
Benefits of Mindfulness
How Mindfulness Helps
How Can We Practice Mindfulness?
Formal Mindfulness Practices
Chapter 8 : Procrastination
Chapter 9 : Worry, Fear, and Anxiety
Fear
Anxiety
Phobias
Chapter 10 : Insomnia
When should one see a doctor?
Chapter 11 : Keep Calm and Manage Excessive Anger
Steps to Take in Managing Anger
Chapter 12 : Retrain Your Brain
Chapter 13 : Panic Attacks, Stress, and Intrusive Thoughts
The AWARE Technique
A is for Acknowledge and accept
W is for Wait, Watch, and maybe Work
A is for Actions
R is for repeat
E is for End
Chapter 14 : Automatic Negative Thoughts ( ANTs )
Chapter 15 : How to Take Control and Choose to Be Aware
Observe Without Judging
Be Your Mind's Most Avid Student
Connecting the Dots?
See the Overall Pattern of Your Life
Conclusion
OVER THINKING:
Declutter Your Mind, Overcome Negativity. Create Atomic Habits to Stop Worrying. Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Depression. Improve Your Brain, Social Intelligence and Self-Confidence
Introduction
What is Overthinking?
The mind is our more precious tool. But what happens when our thoughts start to get out of control? Humans are gifted with a superior thinking capacity that sets us apart from other living beings on this planet. The human brain can create great things like buildings, literature, movies, novels, and thousands of other inventions that have enhanced our way of life throughout history. It is remarkable what we can do when we put our minds to it.
Thinking allows us to excel in school, go to college, plan for the future, get a job. No doubt, our mind is our biggest asset, but what happens when the mind stops being your ally and starts becoming your enemy? What if your mind starts to get out of control and starts eating away at your happiness? What would happen if your mind started producing destructive thoughts that threaten to hold you back in life and ruin the relationships youve worked so hard to build?
Overthinking Explained
Thinking too much. That is exactly what it means to overthink. When you spend too much time thinking instead of taking action, when you analyze and repeat the same thoughts in your mind but do very little about it, youre overthinking.
Or how about another, more relatable example of overthinking happening in a relationship. You send a text to your crush whom youve recently started dating. You wait eagerly for their reply, but an hour passes. Two hours. Three hours. Still nothing from them. Your mind starts to go into overdrive. Why arent they texting me back? Are they busy? Have they lost interest in me? Was it something I said? Maybe theyre annoyed that Im texting them first. Maybe they want to break up with me. Could they be ghosting me? Is it me? Why does this always happen to me?
The Reason Behind It
To be trapped by the thoughts in your mind is torture. Being locked in and unable to escape the negativity is mental torture. The brain is tricky in that way. Telling it not think about something rarely ever works. We naturally want certainty. We want control. We want to know whats happening. We want concrete answers to the questions we have. When we dont get what we need to satisfy that urge, the brain goes into overdrive, coming up with scenarios of its own.
Why does overthinking happen? Well, along with the ability to think, humans have another special ability called intuition. Intuition is defined as the ability to immediately understand something without any need for conscious reasoning. Have you ever been told to go with your gut when you were stuck on a decision that had to be made? Gut in this context refers to your intuition, and it does highlight the fact that your intuitive thoughts are not coming from your conscious mind. Instead, they stem from your subconscious mind. If youve ever experienced those moments when it feels like your brain is arguing with itself, this is the reason why.
Your subconscious mind sometimes tries to give you answers to the problems youre facing. You need to make decisions every day. What makes it scary for a lot of people is how those decisions determine the direction your life is going and what youre going to experience next. This can be an overwhelming notion for many and why overthinking is such a problem. Were afraid of regret, and since time continues to move forward instead of backward, it feels like every decision that is going to impact our life matters. Once a decision has been made, you cannot go back in time and change the moment. You cant alter the choice youve made most of the time, and you must live with the consequences of your decisions. The last thing we want is to make a decision that we come to regret. We dont want to live with the possibility that we could have experienced something better if only we had made a different decision. See why overthinking is a big problem?