Fearful Unwanted Thoughts

I often talk about letting thoughts be there and not engaging with them, so here’s another way of my explanation:

You know how annoying it is when you get a song in your head that just plays over and over, you may find yourself humming along without thinking of it and then finally shout ‘oh just go away’.  It happens all the time, doesn’t it……

So - what do we do when we have a tune stuck in our head?  We just let it be there and get on with life and that tune slowly disappears - in fact a few days later we can’t even remember what the dam song was.

Imagine when you have that tune you do the same to it as you do those fearful, obsessive thoughts that haunt you.  You go around worrying why you have this tune going round in your head, you try and sing something else, you over analyse it and realise maybe its because it belongs to an album and … oh my gosh, all those other songs on that album must be important too and so you then become fearful about them too …..  On and on that song goes and now the others also play round and round in your head, daily, whilst you struggle to rid yourself of them.  This is tiring (hence the weird head detachment), the frustration and the added anxiety.

So - as said, when that tune pops into your head we simply just get a bit irritated with it and just get on with our life and that song disappears.  THIS is what I mean about not engaging with it - let it be there and it will go.

Ok so those thoughts you have come fired with anxiety compared to the song, but whatever feeling they bring its no different.  I know how difficult it is letting a thought AND its anxiety be there, but you let both do the same.  You have to take that anxiety with you as you stop engaging with the thought, let that anxiety rage and as the thought disappears so will that anxiety too.

Fearful thoughts are a side effect of anxiety - and those fearful thoughts bring anxiety too which keeps you in a constant loop.  This method will break that loop, the fearful anxious thought will ease and it’ll stop piling on more anxiety to the anxiety you fear.

You can get rid of any thought like this.  Let it be ……