Sometimes life is already hard enough. We don't have to make it harder by believing every thought that passes through our mind.
As someone who has always been an overthinker, this book made me realise something I had never really knew about before—there is a difference between thoughts and thinking.
Living with a chronic illness, uncertainty is part of my everyday life. A symptom or a bad day would immediately send my mind into overdrive. Reading this book made me wonder how much of my suffering came from my illness..and how much came from the stories I was creating around it in my mind.
The biggest takeaway for me was that thoughts are inevitable. So are negative thoughts. The problem isn't that they appear. The problem begins when we believe every one of them and keep feeding them with more thinking.
Another thing I loved was how simple the book is. We often assume that if something is simple, it can't be profound. But simple doesn't mean easy. Accepting uncertainty is simple. Letting a thought pass is simple. Our thinking is what makes it difficult.
Will I stop overthinking after reading one book? Of course not. But I know I'll pause more often and ask myself, "Is this really true, or is it just my thinking?"
