JUST DON'T WORRY AND DON'T INTELLECTUALIZE
Don't wooy, and don't intellectualize
Question
I feel at a loss in that it seems I do not know how to not worry, intellectualize, and yet still make decisions, interact with life. I don't know how to care and do, without deciding what to do via contemplating and intellectualizing.
I do not understand how to do things, like decide whether to take a job that I feel too tired for but need money, or the best route to help connect my family with help they need, or where to live now with no permanent home, or to decide what attitude to have with regards to my friend.
With so much up in the air in my chaotic life, I do not know how to get through all of it without thinking and contemplating and considering it all, planning, making positive and negative lists, considering, but it gets all crazy in my head with the thoughts just causing storms. The thought processes are huge surges of over-thinking, like Attention Deficiency Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
— Elizabeth, USA
Answer
If you run blindly across a busy street, you risk being hit by a motor vehicle. So you just don't do it. It is very simple.
If you jump down a three-story building, you risk to have your legs broken. So you just don't do it. It is very simple.
If you continue worrying and intellectualizing, you risk to be more and more sick. So, you just don't do it. It is very simple.
Not to worry and not to intellectualize is far less demanding than not to run blindly across a busy street, or not to jump down from a three-storey building. If you fail in the task, you don't have to die. But if you fail to stop running blindly across a busy street, or fail to stop jumping down from a three-storey building, you may lose your life.
Don't do something is easier than doing something. Don't worry and don't intellectualize is easier than worry and intellectualize. You just don't do it.
If you have to do something, or want to do something, just do it. You don't need to worry or intellectualize about it.
If you want to eat your dinner, just eat your dinner and enjoy it. You don't have to worry or intellectualize how you should eat your dinner or whether you should wear a blue dress or a red dress while eating your dinner.
The above is taken from Question 4 January 2016 Part 1 of the Selection of Questions and Answers.
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