In Sanskrit, the word vikṣepa means “mental distraction” — the scattering of consciousness away from its center.
When vikṣepa dominates, the mind starts to fragment reality into endless possibilities and imagined outcomes. This is the root of over-analysis — an attempt of the ego to preserve control by dissecting the infinite into comprehensible parts.
Overthinking is simply the mind’s refusal to surrender. It clings to motion because motion sustains the illusion of a separate “I” that must decide, fix, or protect.
In the Bhagavad Gītā (4.40), it is said, Ajñaś cāśraddadhānaś ca saṃśayātmā vinaśyati“ – The one without faith, who is full of doubt, is lost.”
Doubting self — is not the true Self. It presumes separation. Doubt is not your enemy; it is the final veil through which the soul tests its remembrance.
The intellect becomes corrupted by attachment, and fear starts circling the same questions that can only be dissolved, never answered.
In this spinning, one moves from insight to exhaustion — from knowing to illness. The illness is not punishment; it is the body’s attempt to restore stillness. When the mind cannot pause, the body pauses for it.
Through that stillness, the pulse of Source reawakens, rediscovering itself behind every doubt, every symptom, every spiral of thought, untouched and luminous.
The true healing, then, is not in solving every doubt but in seeing through the one who doubts.
When the illusion of “the thinker” dissolves, thinking becomes transparent.
When the illusion of “the doubter” dissolves, faith arises naturally.
And when the illusion of “the healer” dissolves, wholeness reveals itself.
This is the sacred movement of The Eternal Act — contraction and release, illusion and realization, until all inquiry ends in silent recognition:
“I was never lost. I only dreamed myself away to find myself again.”