The loop that steals my day

I woke up at 4am last week because my brain decided to replay a conversation I had three days earlier.

I looped through what I said, what I should have said, and what they probably thought about the whole thing.

These thoughts tap danced in my skull until my alarm went off, and I'd slept two hours less than optimal.

Thanks, brain (or is it mind?).

This is rare now, but it used to happen to me constantly. A worry about how I came across at a dinner would follow me home and sit on my chest for days. I was convinced everyone noticed how weird I was.

But most of what I obsessed over wasn't even real. The monster under the bed was imaginary, but my body didn't know the difference. Silly.

I spent years trying to quiet the loop with meditation apps, journaling and positive thinking and deep breaths.

Some of it helped around the edges, but the loop kept coming back because I was treating the symptoms and never touching the mechanism that kept it spinning.

Then I figured out what was actually driving it, and my sleep came back, my shoulders dropped, and I stopped losing entire days to something that had already happened.

I put that whole approach into Untethered Mind.

If you've ever lost hours (or sleep) to a thought spiral you couldn't switch off, this is what I built it for.

Have a look here.

Peace,

Alex