Framework For Removing Thinking Triggers
1. Perform an audit to see what things can make you more susceptible to thinking and make a list.
A. Write down everything that comes to mind. What can help is to tap into your intuition and feel energetically in your body if this specific thing in your environment will help or hurt you. If you are in a calm, relaxed state, the answer will be obvious.
B. If you’re having trouble with coming up with things, try to remember what things tend to put you into a fight or flight mode, make you anxious or overthink. Anything that puts you into a survival state will not help you maintain a state of non-thinking.
C. If it is still difficult to think of things, you can keep a journal as you go about your week and write down anything that seems to put you into a fight or flight mode. You’ll have a nice list by the end of the week.
2. Organize all of the things you wrote down into categories
A. Here are some examples of categories I. Physical Health a. What things that when you put into your body can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)?
Foods, stimulants, drinks, etc.
II. Physical Environment b. What things in your physical environment can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)?
III. Digital Environment c. What things on your phone, computer, or TV can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)?
IV. Digital Consumption
d. What media/content when you consume can make you more prone to experience a fight or flight response (anxiety, stress, overthinking)?
3. After you categorize everything, reorganize your list, and begin ranking the items from things that affect you most to the least.
4. Choose the top items from each list and create an action item on what you plan to do in order to remove it from your environment. Choose only what would be manageable and possible for you to remove without making you prone to even more stress (this would defeat the purpose of the exercise). Start small and after you’ve become acquainted with the changes and see the impact, you can begin eliminating other things.
