Stop Intrusive, Obsessive Thoughts Ruining Your Life
Hypnosis can release you from the grip of compulsive thinking
Do you feel constantly plagued by worrying and intrusive ideas and thoughts?
Do you sometimes wonder if there's something terribly wrong with you because of the ideas that come into your head?
Of course, everybody will occasionally have obsessive negative thoughts entering their minds, and even going round and round in their heads for a while. But when you find yourself constantly disturbed by frightening ideas or images, or unable to stop worrying about something, it can really take all the fun out of life and drain your energies, leaving you struggling.
What sort of ideas become obsessive thoughts?
All kinds of thoughts can become persistent - from going over old troubling conversations, or thinking about a particular person all the time, or fretting about something awful that you 'might' do, to being unable to relax and enjoy yourself because you can't stop thinking about work. And the trouble is, it's not just the thoughts themselves that are a problem - soon you find yourself worrying about the worrying too.
Is obsessive thinking a sign of 'madness' or 'badness'?
You'll have noticed that just telling yourself to 'stop it' seems to have little effect. It's as if you can't stop. And this is where many people begin to worry about something new - "Is there something fundamentally wrong with me that I am thinking this stuff?"
The good news is that having loads of intrusive and pre-occupying thoughts is actually a normal experience. Studies undertaken by psychologist Stanley Rachman showed that almost everyone experiences 'bad thoughts', and becomes pre-occupied with them (1). This is a universal human experience. So there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you if you have such thoughts too.
The role of emotion in getting pre-occupied with certain thoughts
The problem really comes from how much these thoughts are troubling you, rather than the fact that you are having them. How much they trouble you depends on how much significance you attach to them, and that stems from how much emotion you respond with. This is easy to say, and even to understand. But once you have got into a habit of thinking obsessively about something, how can you switch off this response?
Emotional arousal is an unconscious process - you don't choose, consciously, to feel a particular way. You just find yourself feeling like that. But then you start thinking about what you are feeling, and this in turn rouses an emotional response to your thoughts, and so a sort of spiral is set up, which just carries you away.
How hypnosis can help you interrupt obsessive thoughts
So, to interrupt this spiral, you have to go by the same route - that is, using unconscious processes. And the best and most effective way to make these unconscious changes is through hypnosis.
Stop Obsessive Thoughts is an audio hypnosis session which makes full use of modern understandings of unconscious processes to help you make important changes in your life. It will help you take back control of your life and begin to see those old thoughts in their proper perspective.
This calming and relaxing session will transform your life by
- helping you understand how the spiral of thoughts and feelings works
- teaching you how to calm down your emotional responses quickly and easily
- getting you detached from the content of random thoughts
- enabling you to see clearly again without unwanted thoughts getting in your way
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References:
(1) See Baer, Lee, The Imp of the Mind (2002) - Rachman study referenced at p.7,8.
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People can get caught up in all kinds of obsessive thoughts-ranging from worries about failure to concerns over making mistakes or offending someone. Others may experience troubling recurring ideas connected to violence, sex, or socially inappropriate behavior. These thoughts can also take the form of open-ended "what if" worries, like:
- What if I did that?
- What if there's something wrong with me?
- What if I offended someone?
These thoughts often loop endlessly, making them distracting and frustrating, especially when you recognize that they aren't grounded in reality.
The Vicious Cycle of Obsessive Thoughts
What makes obsessive thoughts worse is that sufferers often worry about having these thoughts in the first place. They imagine these thoughts might reveal something terrible about them, sparking a battle to suppress or avoid them. This creates a cycle of self-doubt and internal conflict, where trying to push the thoughts away or worrying about their implications only intensifies the emotional response.
The truth is:
- Having inappropriate or intrusive thoughts doesn't reveal any dark truth about you.
- If it does, it's the same truth for nearly every human being on the planet.
The human brain naturally produces random, wandering thoughts, some of which are influenced by primal instincts like fear, anger, sex, or violence.
The Universality of Intrusive Thoughts
Psychologist Stanley Rachman conducted a survey of college students and found that nearly all of them had experienced intrusive thoughts. These ranged from thoughts of harming strangers or loved ones to blasphemous images or thoughts of sexual violence.
Intrusive thoughts are simply a normal part of human consciousness and not a sign of personal flaw or weakness.
Obsessive Thoughts and Emotional Significance
The difference between an everyday inappropriate thought and an obsessive one lies in how much emotion and significance you attach to it.
- The more anxiety, frustration, or guilt you feel about a thought, the more important it seems.
- This emotional arousal acts as a "tag" that signals to the brain that the thought is important.
As a result, the brain keeps bringing it to your attention, reinforcing the pattern.
A New Approach: Letting Go of Emotional Arousal
This session doesn't aim to suppress inappropriate thoughts because doing so creates an internal struggle, increasing emotional arousal. Trying not to think about something-like penguins wearing top hats-only makes it more persistent.
Instead, as you deeply relax during the hypnotic part of this session, you'll learn:
- To calm down around those thoughts.
- To emotionally detach from them.
- To change the emotional "tags" attached to those thoughts.
By doing so, the brain will start to see them as unimportant-just random "junk" from the vast ocean of consciousness. Over time, these thoughts will lose their hold over you, becoming fleeting distractions that the tide carries away.
You can look forward to feeling indifferent toward these thoughts, allowing you to focus on what truly matters. This will create space for you to channel your energy into meaningful, resourceful directions and discover just how much more you're capable of achieving.
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Stop Obsessive Thoughts
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Length: 29:38
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