Why is Getting Out of Your Own Head So Challenging?

Sometimes being the only one in your head can be infuriating.

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What am I going to write about today? Who gives a shit about what I have to say when it comes to health, wellness, and wellbeing? Let alone anything else I write about?

In fact, why do I keep at this in the first place?

Thinky-thoughts, as I call these, can insinuate themselves into a strange place between your conscious and subconscious minds. But it’s a place both right in front of you and hard to reach.

When there are a lot of things happening all at once — both inside and outside of yourself — overwhelm can hit hard and fast. Before you know it, you find yourself flustered and frustrated. Then you start asking negative-leaning questions like those above.

Getting out of your own head can be incredibly challenging. But why is that the case?

Your head is like a buried treasure chest

When pirates in fictional stories are seeking a buried treasure chest, they have presumptions about what they’ll find. Usually, it’s all about treasure and massive wealth.

In some stories, the victors find the buried treasure and indeed gain that wealth. But sometimes…