How It Works
How Solarie reduces overthinking
Solarie reduces overthinking by creating a brief pause in sustained attention. The emotional charge of a thought depends on how long you focus on it. When you understand this, you can begin to shift your relationship to intrusive thoughts.
The Mechanism
Attention shapes experience
When you focus continuously on a thought, you maintain identification with it. This identification keeps the emotional tone active in your nervous system.
The thought itself isn't the problem — it's the sustained attention that gives it weight. When attention shifts, even briefly, the emotional charge can begin to settle.
Solarie creates that brief interruption. By pressing the button, you pause intrusive thoughts and shift focus away, even for a moment. That's enough to create space.
Overthinking is not a character flaw — it's a natural tendency of a mind that cares. The question isn't how to stop thinking, but how to loosen the grip of thoughts that feel heavy. A gentle interruption can be surprisingly effective.
This approach reduces the intensity of recurring thoughts not by fighting them, but by removing what feeds them: continuous, unbroken attention. When you pause, you create a gap. In that gap, something can shift.
The Process
A thought arises and captures your attention
Sustained focus strengthens its emotional charge
Solarie creates a brief pause in that attention
The interruption allows the charge to settle
What happens when you use it
An experiential shift, not a fix
Emotional charge lessens
The same thought, but with less urgency or intensity.
Attention settles
The inner dialogue quiets, even briefly.
Space emerges
You're less identified with the thought. There's room to breathe.
Or nothing at all
That's okay. The pause itself is the work.
Understanding how Solarie reduces overthinking is just the beginning. The philosophy behind it goes deeper — exploring why we become identified with thoughts in the first place, and how a different relationship to attention can change everything.
Explore the philosophy