The Obsession Phase

By Mike Moritz

I came up with this theory on June 19, 2012. It is an idea that I came up mainly through expirience and I still have many attacks of what I have named the "Obsession Phase."

This is the idea of teenagers who are involved in competitive activities, such as sports or theater or others, create an enemy of your own that you can't see but you can feel. The mental lapse of letting your fears, doubts and insecurities shoot you down. This creates an unbearable, horrible feeling of pressure that now you have put on yourself- and it's a lot of pressure to succeed. And because you have now let yourself fall to you own pressure, YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED.

And this then creates an overreaction to the situation in which you have let yourself fall into in the first place where you get so deep into your own head; next thing you know, you're a head case and you ought to figure it out before it starts really hurting you.

Try turning to things that clear your mind. Meditation is a god.

Practice the art of reacting, rather than thinking. Only problem with that one is that it is way easier said than done; people can tell you that all they want but unless you find methods that work for you in order to ACTUALLY stop thinking, it's not gonna matter who says what to you about reacting over thinking. You just need to put the energy into setting your head straight if you ever fall into a situation like that. It becomes easy once you have opened yourself up to solutions and you put the energy into it.