Deep thinkers: what’s your favorite form of intellectual nonsense? 👇 #overthinking #metacognition #traumahealing #HealingJourney #nonsense

things I can say for free or therapist can't. If you are a deeply introspective individual, the cure for your overthinking might be adding a little more absurdity to your life. The reason being that when your brain is constantly analyzing, observing, processing, or connecting dots and trying to understand absolutely everything, even your own healing can be something that you actually obsess over. Even obsessing over thinking about your thinking. At some point you need to just get out of your own head and you don't do that by thinking harder. You need to start playing. Play in fun is basically like entering the flow state for an overthinker. It gives your brain an experience that doesn't have to mean anything. You don't have to analyze the joke. You don't have to understand why you're laughing. You also don't need to turn the ridiculous thing you just did into a lesson about your childhood. You can just be an idiot for five minutes. That is the point. Silliness pulls you out of self-monitoring and back into an experience and the deeply introspective mind needs this counterbalance. You need the philosophical conversations and the stupid ones. You need both solitude and uncontrollable laughter with your favorite people. You need both meaning and absolute nonsense because a life constantly observing yourself is a life that's spent watching instead of living. So go dance badly, send the ridiculous meme, make the stupid joke, laugh until your stomach hurts, and do something that serves absolutely no purpose. Fun is not a distraction from your growth but the thing that keeps you profoundly human. And just remember, deep minds need shallow water [BLANK_AUDIO]