The reason for overthinking is always blocked energy in our heart. Always. A Samskara causing disturbance within, prompting the mind to "work on a solution".
If we were ok feeling the pain when it comes up inside, there would be no overthinking. None.
Peaceful heart, peaceful mind.
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🔲 Samskara
🔲 Mind & Heart
🔲 Feeling vs. Thinking
🔲 Avoidance & Protection Mechanisms
🔲 Presence / Staying With What Is
🔲 Intuition vs. Mental Control
🔲 Pain, Discomfort & Growth
🔲 Why Solutions Often Don’t Help
🎬 JatFK – Uncut First Take
Overthinking is not a thinking problem. It only looks like one.
What’s actually happening is much simpler and much more uncomfortable: energy is stuck in the heart. Something wants to be felt, but isn’t. And the mind, being a loyal servant, jumps in to help — by spinning stories, scenarios, explanations, strategies.
The mind doesn’t overthink because it’s broken.
It overthinks because it’s trying to protect you from feeling what’s already here.
Why the mind starts spinning
Whenever something touches an old wound, a fear, a longing, or an unprocessed pain (what in yogic language is often called a samskara), the system gets disturbed.
If the heart were allowed to fully feel that disturbance — the tightness, the sadness, the fear, the grief, the heat — there would be movement. Energy would flow. Resolution would happen naturally.
But the moment we don’t allow that feeling, the energy has nowhere to go.
So it goes up.
Into the head.
That’s when thoughts multiply.
Not because there is something to solve — but because something is being avoided.
The core misunderstanding
Most people try to stop overthinking by:
thinking better thoughts
finding the right insight
distracting themselves
optimizing their mindset
All of that stays on the wrong level.
Overthinking is not resolved by clarity of thought.
It is resolved by capacity to feel.
The mind calms down automatically when the heart is no longer blocked.
Not the other way around.
Pain is not the enemy
This is where most approaches subtly go wrong.
The system learned at some point that feeling certain things was “too much.” Maybe as a child. Maybe later. So it developed a brilliant workaround: don’t feel — think.
Overthinking is often a sign of intelligence and sensitivity.
It just got misused for self-protection.
The irony:
The pain you’re trying to think your way out of is usually far less dangerous than the endless mental noise created to avoid it.
What actually helps (and what doesn’t)
What helps:
slowing down enough to notice the feeling underneath the thoughts
letting the sensation be there without trying to name it or fix it
staying with the heart even when it feels uncomfortable
What doesn’t:
arguing with your thoughts
forcing yourself to “stop thinking”
waiting for the mind to calm down first
Peaceful heart → peaceful mind.
Not as a technique. As a consequence.
A simple pointer
Next time you notice yourself overthinking, don’t ask:
“How do I stop this?”
Ask instead:
“What am I not willing to feel right now?”
Then pause.
Feel.
Even if it’s messy. Even if it’s unclear.
If you allow the heart to move, the mind will follow.
It always does.
Closing
Overthinking is not a flaw to get rid of.
It’s a signal.
A message saying:
Something in you wants to be met — not solved.
When the heart is at peace, the mind rests by itself.
No effort required.