Some therapists still recommend a technique called "thought stopping". This is quite unfortunate since thought-stopping leads to thought rebounding. The research by Wegner at Harvard on "white bears ...

Negative thoughts have a way of looping endlessly, and once they take hold it can feel almost impossible to shake them. Thought stopping is a simple technique that helps you break that cycle and ...

This is the return trip of a two-part post on the humble topic of thoughts. In particular, it's about how thoughts, however useful to us, can also be intensely distracting in meditation practices. And ...