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8 Japanese Techniques to Stop OVERTHINKING

1. Ikigai

3. Shoshin

1. Ikigai

It means to have a purpose in life.The reason you wake up each day excited to do something. When you have a purpose, you won’t you won’t feel lazy or unmotivated.

4 Rules of Ikigai
1) Do what you love

2) Do what your good at

3) Do what the world needs

4) Do what you can be paid for


Have a purpose 

2. Kaizen

3. Shoshin

1. Ikigai

It means focusing on small improvements everyday and not waiting for big improvements but trying to become 1% better wveryday. Instead of setting a big goal, we should divide it into multiple small goals and tackle then one by one.


Focusing on small improvements 

3. Shoshin

3. Shoshin

4. Hara Hachi Bu

It’s a concept from Zen Buddhism that means approaching things with a beginner‘s mindset.
“If your mind is empty, it is open to everythin. In the beginner’s mindset, there are many possibilities; but in the expert’s mind, there are few.” -Shunryu Suzuki (author of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind)


If your mind is empty, it is open to everything 

4. Hara Hachi Bu

4. Hara Hachi Bu

4. Hara Hachi Bu

This means to stop eating after you’re 80% full. If you eat too much, you’re more likely to feel lazy. This happens to people all the time. Once they eat their lunch, they start to feel tired because the body tries to digest all the food they eat. So you start to feel sleepy, and you would like to procrastinate.

If you eat too much, you're more likely to feel lazy

5. Shinrin-yoku

4. Hara Hachi Bu

5. Shinrin-yoku

Shinrin in Japanese means ”forest” and yoku means ”bath.”

It means that one should spend more time with nature. Spending time with nature is the best way to deal with stress. Whenever you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed, go for a walk.

Spend more time with nature 

6. Wabi-sabi

4. Hara Hachi Bu

5. Shinrin-yoku

This means that instead of perfection, one should find beauty in imperfection. Things can be perfect all the time. Some things can’t be perfect, and that’s okay. There is beauty even in imperfection. Love the things the way they are. Don’t be stubborn and try to change them. You will ruin their beauty.

Find beauty in imperfection

7. Ganbaru

7. Ganbaru

7. Ganbaru

Nothing worth doing can be rushed, no matter how hard one tries.

One should be patient with the results  and still strive to do the best that can be done.

Be patient

8. Gaman

7. Ganbaru

7. Ganbaru

It means to show patience and perseverance when things get tough. When you go on a journey; it’s not going to be all pleasant; there will be many times when things go wrong. You will face many difficulties when you start doing the things you want to do. There will be failures.

Perserverance

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