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Feeling overwhelmed indicates that our lives might be imbalanced
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Dr. Luster from ‘Inspirethought’ walked Bored Panda through how someone might handle feeling overwhelmed with everything that’s going on in their life.
“Zhuang Zhou, a Chinese Philosopher from the late 4th century BC, espoused the following thought: ‘Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.’ In many ways, I believe the philosopher was illustrating the potential of letting go of our will and desire to react to events emotionally, and to simply accept and flow through them,” he shared with us.
According to the counselor, feeling overwhelmed is our mind letting us know that something is wrong with the balance in our lives. “Typically when we’re overwhelmed we may have feelings of desperation where we seek escape or avoidance as a defense mechanism. We might think of overwhelm as ‘flooded confluence.’ Or in other terms, too many things at once to process,” he explained in an email.
“So when these things happen to us we have limited cognitive defusion or an awareness of consciously stepping back to take in the entire picture. This is however what needs to happen when we feel overwhelmed is that we need to step back from the ‘picture’ of our lives.”
