The voice in your head is not you.

I have been struggling with overthinking my whole life and recently just being aware about the thoughts has helped me very much, just wanted to share my approach and see if there are any flaws or points I am missing.

The voice in your head is not you ;

We are not our thoughts, just like every other organ of our body, brain also has a function and one of them is to generate shit load amounts of thoughts, these thoughts are generated based on years of conditioning and the fight or flight instincts of your mind.

Our brains also be churning mostly negative thoughts, interesting to think that brain almost overthinks the negative stuff, this alone should justify the fact that we are not our thoughts as brain priorities negative outcomes and threats first as you know we have "survival brain" to anticipate danger and look out or be prepared for the worst case scenario.

If we are not the thoughts then who we are???¿¿¿¿¿¿ maybe we are the awareness that allows a thought to be accepted or not so it's like considering the thoughts to be radio i.e just background noise and then you deciding which thoughts to accept and act upon, awareness is the key that these are not "your" Thoughts and these are just thoughts.

Now I feel like these awareness also is misleading as you don't always have to be aware of whatever you are doing/thinking hence one should try to rest the awareness itself so you can be more "yourself". these awareness cannot be rested for long but practicing again and again maybe one can try to delay it.

Resting awareness and always being aware about a thought and choosing to accept it or not is the key here I feel like.

I knew this already my whole life but it's just the realisation that has helped rn, for me it's like i need to not listen to my overthinking thoughts and look it from a top down pov of why that thought is there, if it doesn't help with my situation i need to be aware of it and just don't allow to ponder on it.

I have started this practice that if i start to think anything negative and it's absolutely dogshit of chain of thoughts without any reasoning and is irrational, i just start saying nope nope nope nope super fast in my mind till the thought goes away. Again the thought might come back but it's the practice of being aware which would help in the long run.

Sorry if I am all over the place, couldn't articulate and collect the thoughts properly :)