Overthinking feels true even when you know it’s ridiculous. Here’s how to get off the hamster wheel of negative thoughts. Click the link in my bio to find out more about my new manifestation program. You can know better and still get hooked. Okay? Logic doesn’t touch it. Because those thoughts are protective stories. Your brain filters everything through old emotional experiences, mostly from childhood. If home was unstable, critical or unpredictable, your nervous system adapted. A part of you learned, “If I expect rejection, it won’t hurt as much.” Run that for thirty years and it turns automatic. Fast. Familiar. Conditioned brain wiring. Still not truth. This is why affirmations bounce right off, bro. A protective part of you is thinking, “If we stop expecting pain, we get blindsided.” Your body doesn’t buy the happy sentence. So quit fighting the thought. Get curious about the part underneath it. Find where it lives in your body. Head. Throat. Stomach. Work with that protective pattern and the thoughts start to lose their grip. #UpSpiralLife #Overthinking #NegativeThoughts #NervousSystemRegulation #Neuroscience - @upspiral.life