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The Neuroscience of Calm Thinking – End Overthinking Loops

Step 3 – Cognitive Clarity

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Mindful Awareness
Oct 17, 2025
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Your mind is built to plan, anticipate, and analyze.

That’s adaptive until stress or endless inputs push it into loops:

  • “What if I fail?”

  • “Did I make the right choice?”

  • “I should have done X instead of Y.”

These loops hijack attention, drain energy, and block focus.

Overthinking can be retrained.

Neuroscience shows how to turn racing thoughts into calm, deliberate, and efficient thinking.

Here is how:

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