Your Life Is A Movie

Are you directing it? Or is it directing you?

Overthinkers don’t experience reality.
We experience the illusion of reality.

We don’t live in the world.
We live in our heads.

We’re addicted to thinking.
And overthinking gives us the illusion of:

productivity
control
progress

But that illusion is the trap that keeps us stuck in our heads.

Inside our heads, two stories play on loop:

1. A highlight reel of past regrets

2. and a horror movie of future catastrophes.

But they’re just movies.

Rumination is shame-scrolling through the past.
Anxiety is catastrophising the future that does not exist.
None of it is real.
None of it is actually happening in the moment.
But the body reacts as if it is.

That’s the power of illusion.

Overthinking is the drug.
A familiar one.
A safe one.
It disguises itself as intelligence.
As if analysing is seeking truth,
as if thinking is solving.

It feels like progress,
but it steals our lives.

We never wake up
because we don’t know we’re asleep.
We’re lost inside the movie,
forgetting we’re the ones projecting it.

Overthinking isn’t the solution.
Overthinking is the problem.

We are creative beings.
Creativity isn’t just about making art.
It’s about creating our reality,
our purpose.

We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
And the human experience is overthinking.

However, the spiritual experience is something entirely different.
Its presence.
It’s flow.
It’s connecting with others.
It’s living a life filled with curiosity and creativity
instead of fear and regret
It’s living life instead of living in our heads, watching horror movies.

That’s where our real creative life begins.
Not in the mind.

Creative flow only exists in the present moment.

I struggle with this as much as any other highly sensitive creative.

How To Stop Overthinking

Last night, I had a shit sleep.
My mind wouldn’t shut the fuck up.
Overthinking mode.
The whole mental cinema was in action.

This is why I treat thoughts like movies.

When I watch a horror film, I feel the fear
But I know it’s not real.
It doesn’t control me.
I don’t mistake it for reality because I’m watching the movie on TV.

Even though I feel fear, I know it’s because I’m watching a horror movie,
so the fear passes through my body.

I don’t waste hours overthinking, trying to resist the fear and resolve it.

It’s just a movie.
And I can return to the present moment.

Thoughts are the same.

You can’t stop the thoughts, but you can stop believing in them.

Reality exists only in the present moment.
Everything else is a movie in our minds.

And when you see the illusion
You can become the director.