Overcoming Overwhelm: The Power of a Simple Mantra

I want to convince you all that overwhelm does not exist. And the way that I do that is with a simple mantra. I. I don’t do overwhelm. So when I can feel my brain beginning to ratchet up, which is what it feels like for me, I can feel my brain escalating. I can feel the sense of its trying to speed up. I can feel it trying to hold on to every bit of every problem that I have. I can feel it saying, you don’t know how to solve this problem, and you have this problem, and you don’t know how to solve this problem, and you have this problem, and you don’t know how to solve this problem. And then I feel my brain trying to keep up with that entire panoply of problems. And in that moment, I tell myself, hold on, you don’t do overwhelm. I relax. I stop trying to track the problems. And simply by doing that, simply by relaxing, thinking more slowly, ironically, and doing internally what you see me doing here physically on camera, of just relaxing, releasing, taking a deep breath, I realized the overwhelm goes away.