How overthinkers can give themselves a few quiet minutes

Some people are not tired in their body first. They are tired because their mind never clocked out.

If that sounds familiar, your first task is not to become perfectly quiet. Your first task is to stop fighting yourself for being noisy.

Quiet is reduction, not perfection

You do not need to erase all thought.

For most people, helpful quiet simply means slowing mental speed enough that you can breathe again and feel where you are.

Try a very small ritual

• Put your phone a little farther away
• Sit down or lean back fully
• Strike the mokugyo ten to twenty times
• Let your breath follow the rhythm

Even a short pause can keep you from burning through the rest of the day.