Regular meditation helps with intrusive thoughts. You're training yourself to have no thoughts. Since our minds are typically incredibly busy, training yourself to do this is usually incredibly helpful. Eventually you can just stop intrusive thoughts in their tracks.
Over and above that, intentional, repetitive counter-thoughts or unrelat…
Regular meditation helps with intrusive thoughts. You're training yourself to have no thoughts. Since our minds are typically incredibly busy, training yourself to do this is usually incredibly helpful. Eventually you can just stop intrusive thoughts in their tracks.
Over and above that, intentional, repetitive counter-thoughts or unrelated thoughts work. If you are thinking about teaching your baby after it grows up, or making a better home for your baby, or ways to create a better life for yourself, or enjoying a particular activity, the unwanted thoughts about causing harm have no space to take up residence in your mind. Positive, happy daydreaming about a joyful future is the opposite of unpleasant, "intrusive" thoughts.
Unless you realize you are the originator of your thoughts, and consciously and deliberately create them, your mind will run on other people's thoughts (delivered to you via spoken word/media), as there's no end to control freaks wanting to influence you to think and act in ways that benefit them (usually to your detriment).
You can habituate yourself to just about any behavior, good or bad. I recommend habituating yourself to good behaviors.
Regular meditation helps with intrusive thoughts. You're training yourself to have no thoughts. Since our minds are typically incredibly busy, training yourself to do this is usually incredibly helpful. Eventually you can just stop intrusive thoughts in their tracks.
Over and above that, intentional, repetitive counter-thoughts or unrelated thoughts work. If you are thinking about teaching your baby after it grows up, or making a better home for your baby, or ways to create a better life for yourself, or enjoying a particular activity, the unwanted thoughts about causing harm have no space to take up residence in your mind. Positive, happy daydreaming about a joyful future is the opposite of unpleasant, "intrusive" thoughts.
Unless you realize you are the originator of your thoughts, and consciously and deliberately create them, your mind will run on other people's thoughts (delivered to you via spoken word/media), as there's no end to control freaks wanting to influence you to think and act in ways that benefit them (usually to your detriment).
You can habituate yourself to just about any behavior, good or bad. I recommend habituating yourself to good behaviors.