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    Overcoming Overthinking | 6 Tips For Calming Your Monkey Mind

    by Chloe Brotheridge Sep 15, 2016 3 minutes
    Calming your monkey mind, photo by Steve Snider
    Photograph by Steve Snider

    Worry and overthinking are stress-inducing — and a buzz kill; here are 6 tips for calming your monkey mind

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    Have you ever felt that there’s a kind of buzz going on in your brain (and it’s not the good kind)? The kind that makes you want to extract your brain from your head, just so you can get some peace? Or numb yourself with enough alcohol or carbs that it could tranquillize an elephant?

    Yeah, that.

    If you didn’t already know, anxiety is kind of a

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