I think too much - help

Day 9, i realize that I literally think too much: I think about big philosophical topics like "What is the meaning of life" and this stuff. It makes me really depressing thinking about this. Also, I think a lot of like "What should I do in life?". This thinking makes me depressed, tired, dizzy and always gives me a headache.

What could I do to be a "less thinker"?

Thanks

 

See, no one understands me -.-

The worst think you can ever do is to think too much. You just get depressed, nihilistic, dizzy and it only gives you a headache. Nope, nothing for me. It does more harm than good for me

@webrunner0825

thanks

 

Doing things, spending time with other people or focusing on one particular task will only stimulate the thinking more. Resisting it will also make it harder. Sit down and do nothing. You need solitude. You need quite space. An environment with as little mental stimulation as possible. As little sounds as possible, as little visual stimulation as possible. All those things are like fuel to mind. So if you want it to calm down you need to take away fuel. I prefer going for a walk at 6AM when most of the city is asleep and just sit in a park for a while. Or go to a river and find a place where there is not many people and just stare at waters. Waters are empty. Visual emptiness, a wast space calms down the mind the same way as silence does.

Then I just sit there are focus on present moment. My body, my berating, bird sounds, water sounds, even sounds of cars in distance. Just try to take it all in to create more sense of presence. When you are fully present in the now there are no thoughts. I would actually recommend a book The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. He's a spiritual teacher that's all about teaching people how to stop thinking. Another good teacher that was also all about that is Jiddu Krishnamurti. He also have some good books out and you can find a lot of his talks for free on Youtube, so as Tolle's by the way.

 

practice mindfulness!

 

@Pluto I know exactly how you feel, I to the same thing but I have OCD.