A reader emailed us, “I can’t stop thinking about my ex. I still sleep in an old t-shirt of his and keep wishing he was with me. Why is this happening even months after we broke up and how do I move on?” Jyoti answers, “If you hold on to their belongings or relationship ...
Or there could be another innocuous factor at play: “It might be that I mindfully put something down somewhere—maybe it’s a book I’m reading—and I know I won’t be able to get back to it for a few day...
Journaling is a good way to externalize those thoughts regarding being cheated on. Writing how you feel helps you get to know yourself better, analyze the thoughts you have, and see if it’s really worth thinking so much about something that happened and over which you have no control. Live...
So it takes a lot of effort to correct yourself and say: hang on, I have no clue. They might be laughing about something that has nothing to do with me. So seeing the positive intention of the other one requires a lot of discipline and t...
RELATED:How to Stop Thinking About Something: 9 Strategies It’s worth noting that overthinking starts with a good intention, usually problem solving or protecting ourselves, but more often than not, it takes us to a dead end and develops into anxiety. However, it’s possible to fight this ...
After all, a completed project is something that can be picked apart, put under a microscope, and judged. A lot of people just aren’t comfortable with that. So instead, they always have a little more work to do. This one little thing needs tweaking. “If I just keep working on it!
The best thing you can do to stop obsessing about past mistakes or embarrassing moments isredirect your focus/attention. Where and how do you redirect it? You take a moment to notice something happening in the physical world right here and now. ...
SometimesinEnglishweusetheverbdroptomeanstopdoingsomething, letitgo. Whenwefeelstuck, it'snaturalforustodothingsthatfeelcomfortableandfamiliar.在英语中，我们有时候用动词 drop 来表示停止做某件事情，让它去吧。当我们被困住时时，我们会很自然地做一些让我们感觉舒适和熟悉的事情。Weeventellourselvesthatthat's...
He had a habit that troubled him deeply—he couldn't stop thinking about the past. 一个小男孩住在一个安静的村庄,但他的心却很不平静。他有一个深深困扰他的习惯——无法停止思考过去。 Old bad memories lingered in his thoughts, and if someone said something hurtfu...
You’re reliving it. Thinking again and again about what you could or should have done or said. Or you’re thinking about something that could happen. Or maybe a mix of the two of them as a past experience or two build a monster in your mind about what the future may bring. ...