Monday; December 16
Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing some research on a concept called “intrusive thoughts”. Basically, this is an emotional condition where certain thoughts get struck in our mind and you can’t seem to get rid of the them. You stress and worry; but since they are just “thoughts” there is no real solution, so the process continues and anxiety sets in. In all honesty, I have struggled with this for a while, but I never really understood the cause nor the process; however, I recently came across a book that has helped. In their book, “Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts” Sally Winston and Martin Seif set out to help people work through these challenges. While I won’t try to reduce the book to one summary statement, one thing they did bring up was that a “thought” is just a “thought”. Now, while on the surface this seems to a no-brainer, there are a lot of people who become anxious or stressed by thoughts that they treat as reality. ...