How to Stop Overthinking and Find Inner Calm | Dishita Muliya | TEDxDTSS College of Law

Quick Overview

Dishita Muliya, a clinical hypnotherapist and regression therapist, explains that mental chaos and stress are like a boomerang that keeps returning until the body and mind are taught to acknowledge and integrate these feelings, rather than ignoring or fighting them, leading to greater awareness and calm.

Key Points: Mental chaos and stress act like a boomerang, continually returning if ignored or resisted. The speaker, Dishita Muliya, is a clinical hypnotherapist and regression therapist from the Netherlands. To stop the cycle, one must acknowledge the chaos/stress (feeling its weight, color, texture) rather than trying to erase it. Muliya guides the audience through an exercise: placing the chaos in the right hand (stress) and calm in the left hand, and then merging them. The mind learns to integrate chaos, resulting in fewer negative thought replays and increased presence in the body. The goal is not to eliminate chaos but to learn how the mind and body work together to manage it, making it less difficult and more manageable.

Context: The talk is presented by Dishita Muliya at a TEDx event hosted by DTSS College of Law. Muliya introduces the concept of 'mental boomerang' to describe recurring negative thoughts, stress, and chaos that people carry in their mind and body. As a regression therapist, she provides practical, guided techniques intended to help the audience shift their relationship with these difficult feelings from resistance to integration.

Detailed Analysis

Dishita Muliya opens by describing how we carry mental chaos—stress, arguments, worries—like a boomerang that keeps coming back because we try to ignore or suppress it. She notes that her subconscious mind is brilliant at rehearsing this chaos, making life difficult. She asserts that the key is not to erase the chaos but to change how we interact with it. Muliya then leads the audience through a physical exercise: first, imagine holding the chaos (stress/chaos) in the right hand and calm in the left hand. She instructs the audience to feel the physical sensations associated with each—weight, color, texture. Next, the audience is asked to relax their posture and close their eyes, allowing the body to relax, and then merge the two hands together. The act of merging the chaotic feeling with the calm feeling allows the mind to integrate them. Muliya emphasizes that this process teaches the body and mind that chaos is a part of one's story, not something to be controlled or fought against. By acknowledging and integrating the chaos, the mind learns to process it more easily, leading to fewer negative thought replays and greater presence in the body. She concludes by thanking the audience, having demonstrated a simple yet profound method for managing internal turbulence.