Think about the number of times you get overwhelmed. Here’re some tips to get you to start taking action: Less Thinking, More Doing: Develop the Action Habit Today 5. Things seem to fall in place as you chip away at a project and come to realize it wasn’t as bad as you thought. You start letting yourself play out every negative scenario resulting from a failed project. Maybe you’re saying “I’m feeling overwhelmed” as you face a project at work and don’t think you have the energy or time to finish it. As you do this, you will find yourself feeling refreshed and invigorated with renewed energy to take on the world. Take a minute to find and clean out all your self-deprecating, negative emotions and thoughts. When you feel overwhelmed, your life isn’t falling apart – your thoughts are. This involves making our mental and physical health a high priority. We have the power to manage our thoughts, and as a result, manage who we are and who we will grow to be. “As he thinks, so he is as he continues to think, so he remains.” In the book, As a Man Thinketh, James Allen says: Our minds are powerful things, and feeling overwhelmed can feel like the end of life as we know it. It’s a Breakdown of Thoughts, Not of Life It’s something that helps me feel a little more in control, though I accept this is something that will be different for everyone. I go through my list and I take action to change anything I can change (even if it’s just an email to delegate a task or move a deadline). If I’m feeling overwhelmed by non-work commitment, I work out what I can cancel and cancel it. On the other hand, if it’s something I cannot control (like a pandemic), I grant myself the permission to sit with it-to just be ok with not being ok with it. ⌄ Scroll down to continue reading article ⌄įor example, if too many pressing deadlines are things on my list, I will speak to clients and I will see if I can change some things, or perhaps I’ll stop taking work that month. With a list in front of you, it’s time to take a look at what you can influence. The list is very often not as long as I expect it to be and often, feelings of being overwhelmed come down to just one or two things on my mind. When I feel like this, I list what is making me feel overwhelmed. I often find that when I’m feeling overwhelmed in life, I lose sight of specifically what is causing me to feel this way. Once you recognize it for what it is and invite it in without fighting it, you can begin to work with it to improve your feelings in a healthy way. Recognizing that overwhelm is your body’s way of trying to help you through difficult times, and what can help is shifting the relationship you have with this emotion.
It’s your mind’s way of telling you that you need to slow down if you want to live a healthier life. It can often feel like these feelings should be easy to overcome, but feeling overwhelmed is a natural response to having too many things going on at once.
It’s no wonder we haven’t learned to peacefully coexist with them and end up fighting them on a daily basis. This helped neurologists discover that human emotion is related to the brain. In the scope of the Earth’s history, human emotions are a fairly recent development due to the rise of brain research in the late 19th century.
Here are 12 things to keep in mind to help you get through it. If you find yourself saying “I’m overwhelmed” or feeling stuck with more than you can handle, know that you’re not alone. However, dwelling on feelings of overwhelm and letting them knock you off course can be detrimental to both your mental health and your productivity. Everyone occasionally feels overwhelmed by expectations, responsibilities, and a lack of time. Feeling overwhelmed is a natural part of life.
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