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Originally Posted by dariomoving
DI woke up 4 in the morning with non stop intrusive thoughts about work and life challenges. Then I say to myself I'm going to apply some of the well-being concepts I've learned, and non seam to put me back to sleep: I try remembering nice places but the feeling doesn't go away, I try mantra chanting don't feel much change, I try pretending to separate myself from the thoughts maybe laugh at them or ridicule them. And not much improves.. Actually I'm not so clear how you distance myself from the thoughts. How do you visualize yourself without thoughts? What am I supposed to visualze?
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Hi there dariomoving,
I used to have that problem severely both at night and during the day. I was able to get completely free of that stuff, however, by an indirect method. It only requires a little practice and it is easy and even fun to do and you can do it all day long in your ordinary life:
http://egg.bu.edu/~youssef/SNAP_CLUB...0164151576.pdf
It gets at what I think is the root underlying process that causes depression and those intrusive repetitive ruminating thoughts.
- vital