Deciding How to Decide

12 min

Best for: decision paralysis and overthinking choices

Some decisions don't stall because the options are hard, they stall because you keep looking for a method trustworthy enough to make choosing feel risk-free. This session names that pattern of deciding how to decide, the endless meta-deliberation that masquerades as diligence. Through slow breath and gentle noticing, you'll practise observing the search for certainty without obeying it. You'll leave with a softer relationship to the decision itself, and permission to begin before the method feels perfect.

← Back overthinking
Maya Hart
Your storyteller
Maya Hart
Tender, reassuring, steady

Tender and reassuring, steady when things aren't, present and calm without ever overpromising.

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About this session

Deciding How to Decide is a guided audio session from Salūs, part of the overthinking collection, narrated by Maya Hart.

Salūs is an ad-free sleep and meditation app for iOS and Android, hundreds of guided sessions, long bedtime stories for adults and 325 free sleep sounds. Hear the full session with a 7-day free trial. Every session is signed off by our BSc (Hons) & MSc Psychology team.