Why I Stopped Doomscrolling and Started Listening to Myself
Last week, like most of us do these days, I found myself glued to my phone at midnight.
Scrolling.
News of floods here, layoffs there, celebrity gossip, political mudslinging, one after another.
A friend calls it doomscrolling. I call it wrecking my peace.
I wasn’t just reading headlines.
I was absorbing emotions, adopting anxieties, borrowing other people’s fears.
It struck me: our mind is constantly picking up cues — from news, social media, old conversations, memories — and weaving them into a narrative.
And that narrative dictates how we feel, what we believe, and how we behave.
That’s exactly where NLP changed the game for me.
What is NLP, you ask?
NLP — Neuro-Linguistic Programming — is like giving your mind a software upgrade.
It’s a way of understanding how our thoughts, language, and patterns shape our reality.
And here’s the good news:
Once you notice those patterns, you can rewrite them.
Imagine this:
👉 Every time you tell yourself “I’m not good at this”, your mind files it away as fact.
👉 Every time you replay a past failure, your body relives that anxiety.
NLP teaches you how to catch those invisible threads, snip the ones that no longer serve you, and weave new, empowering ones.
It’s not magic. It’s awareness.
In a world that profits from your distraction, clarity is rebellion.
And NLP is one of the clearest, kindest ways I’ve found to tune out the noise and tune into myself.
If you’ve been feeling scattered lately — not just by what’s happening outside but by what’s happening inside you — this might be the tool you didn’t know you needed.
Final Thought:
Our world may be messy, but your inner world doesn’t have to be.
Choose which story you’ll live by.