Why Overthinking Never Resolves — and What Actually Ends the Loop

There’s a particular kind of tiredness that doesn’t come from doing too much, but from constant overthinking about yourself.

It often sounds reasonable at first.

A thought appears about how you are, how you’re doing, what you should be feeling by now, or why something hasn’t resolved yet. The mind leans in and starts the overthinking, convinced that if it can just get the right angle, the right insight, the right story — something will finally settle.

But instead of settling, the thinking tightens.

You might notice this as:

• going over the same realisations again and again

• mentally rehearsing conversations

• analysing your patterns, your past, your progress

• watching yourself watching yourself

Nothing is obviously “wrong,” yet there’s a subtle sense of being trapped inside your own head.

This isn’t a failure. It’s a loop.

And loops don’t end by being solved.

How the Loop Is Created

The loop begins with a simple, innocent assumption:

“There is somewhere else I’m meant to be.”

Not necessarily a physical place. Often it’s an internal one.

A version of you who is calmer.

Clearer.

More healed.

More present.

More “done.”

Once this idea appears, the mind takes on a job: get me there.

Thinking becomes a vehicle. Analysis becomes effort. Awareness turns into self-monitoring.

The loop tightens not because you’re doing it wrong, but because the mind is trying to think its way out of thinking.

Pause for a moment.

Notice that you are reading these words.

Notice that whatever is aware of this sentence is not rushing.

Why Resolution Never Arrives

The mind believes the loop will end after something happens:

• after understanding lands

• after a belief shifts

• after a memory is processed

• after you finally “see it”

But the loop itself is built out of after.

It’s a future-oriented movement that quietly dismisses what’s already here.

Here’s the subtle trap: The moment you try to arrive somewhere else, presence becomes insufficient.

Not because it actually is —but because attention has been placed on an imagined improvement of now.

Nothing needs to be added for the loop to continue. It only needs one thing: belief in arrival.

A Small Interruption

Right now, without changing anything:

Feel the contact between your body and whatever is supporting you.

Don’t do this to calm yourself. Don’t do it to practise. Just notice it’s already happening.

Thought may continue. That’s fine.

The loop isn’t thoughts. The loop is the relationship to them.

Notice: Thoughts are appearing. Awareness is not moving.

What Actually Ends the overthinking Loop

Loops don’t collapse through effort. They dissolve through irrelevance.

The moment presence is no longer treated as a means to an end, the mind loses its project.

Not because it’s defeated, but because there’s nothing left for it to manage.

You don’t exit the loop by stepping forward. You exit by noticing that what you were trying to reach has never been absent.

This isn’t an insight to hold onto. It’s something that can be noticed again and again — each time more simply.

Before You Go

If the mind tries to take this article and do something with it, that’s okay.

Just notice: even that is happening in what is already here.

Nothing needs to resolve before this moment can be lived.

And it already is.

If you’re curious, this way of seeing is explored more fully in my book Creator Consciousness Mastery: AI as a Mirror to God, and in my spoken reflections on YouTube. Both are simply places to pause — not paths you need to follow.