Do you overthink a lot? Do you worry about anything and everything?
If the answer to these questions is ‘yes’, and you want to turn the volume of this noise in your head down, then you’re at the right place.
In one of his popular videos, the communication coach David JP Phillips who has garnered over one million followers on TikTok by sharing psychological tips and tricks said: “Here’s a psychological trick that you won’t believe until you’ve actually tried it and it’s easy, it’s super simple.
“It’s for all of us who ruminate and overthink, it goes like this… Keep your eyeballs still.
“Don’t move them, because you see for your brain to think and fetch memories, it needs to move your eyes and as you stop the moving, it won’t be able to do the rumination it usually does.
“This is so powerful it blows people’s minds.
“Try it.”
After being viewed over six million times, over 900,000 people even liked the video. Moreover, thousands of viewers took time out to comment sharing their POV and thoughts.
One viewer said: “It should never have taken me 37 years to know this!!!”
Another stated: “All my life I would stare off in the distance and say that it felt ‘good’. I have an anxiety disorder, so it must have been self-soothing when I’d stare.”
Another replied: “My mind is blown, it works and it explains why people have trouble looking you in the eye when they tell a new lie.”
“Yes! I am an EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapist, so not moving the eyes minimizes the bilateral brain processing/thoughts,” said another.
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