“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.” – Anthony Hopkins
The fourth monthly seminar under the banner of Conscientia was conducted on the topic: ‘Overthinking’. Titled ‘Put an End to Overthinking’, it was conducted with the intention of providing our audience with practical advice on understanding and dealing with Overthinking. Our main reason for conducting this session was because we found that a majority of the youngsters – even the general population – deal with it regularly. Needless to say, we surmised that this would be a useful session for our audience due to it.
The speaker for the session was Dr. Jaison Varghese a dentist by training, who completed his Bachelors of Dental Surgery (BDS) and a Master’s in Hospital Management from NIMS, Hyderabad. He also has a certificate in CCCC, a reputed counselling course offered by Person-to-Person and has finished a Counselling Course through BCTI, Delhi. Currently, he serves as the Administrator of Chinchpada Christian Hospital, a rural mission hospital committed to serving the poor and marginalized with compassionate, quality care.
He began the session by informing them of the three gears in Overthinking: Know Your Thoughts, Learn from Your Thoughts and Take Captive Your Thoughts. Then he led them into understanding their thoughts – how the brain thinks, types of thoughts, etc. He wrapped up the session with practical and impactful steps on breaking the Overthinking cycle, along with tips they could implement every day.
The session was well-received, experiencing a boom of 27 participants and getting compliment such as:
- It was a much needed topic for me. Thank you.
- Session was really informative and helped in self awareness
Overall, we’re incredibly pleased to have enlightened and aided our audience on this topic, and we are hoping to do the same in the further monthly seminars.