Thoughts Are Just Thoughts

As a chronic overthinker, I know how easy it is to go from a single “what if” to full-blown panic mode over a thousand possible wrong outcomes of a thousand different things. Sometimes it would get so bad that I would take actions and make decisions based on those imagined scenarios rather than my actual reality.

As I become more intentional about what I feed to my subconscious and grow in my level of self-awareness, one truth that has stuck with me is the fact that these thoughts are just thoughts. They are not a set of laid-down rules to live by, and they are certainly not my reality.

A “what if” does not trump reality, and if the dreaded “what if” does become reality, there’s always going to be a way to navigate through it.

So now, whenever my mind starts to spiral, I remind myself that I do not have to live in my thoughts; I get to live in my reality.

All my love,

Jhoye From MANI.