Getting Lost In Thought: Episode 479

f you’re a verbal thinker, you’re likely a highly linear thinker. That can mean it’s easy for you to get stuck in a thought pattern.

One thought leads you to the next, then to the next, and then it leads you back to the first thought. As our brains operate with state-based memory, we may find more and more things that bother us.

Unable to perceive the overview of our mental patterns, we might stay like that for days, or possibly years.

One solution is meditation. When we take the time to observe our thoughts, we do gain that overview.

Another method is journaling. By putting our thoughts on a page, we can begin to recognise the patterns and the structure, and we can more easily find a way out.

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