First, to understand what circular thoughts are we define, these kinds of reflections are ideas that appear in our minds that do not lead to any solution, but that continue to revolve around the same topic and use the same ideas without adding anything. They’re mental traps.
Circular thoughts prevent us from freeing up space to create new solutions or question other points of view, they are simply going round and round as they plunge us into a spiral of suffering, they are dysfunctional thoughts because they do not help and also generate negative emotions.
- Many of them are preceded by the famous “what if?What if I don’t get it right?What if it wasn’t my turn?What if I can’t? Questions that only block the generation of new alternatives.
- Bring nothing and also take up an important space of our mind and time.
Why does our mind work so hard to deal with the same subject over and over again? Sometimes the reason is in our fears and anxieties, sometimes in the mental routines we create, or simply because our brain needs to be active. make circular thoughts disappear, the ideal is to find new solutions and solutions, let’s see how to do it.
Garbage time? It is a psychological technique that is used to deal with this type of thinking, first of all, to start applying it, we must know how to distinguish the thoughts that help us and offer solutions, that is, functional thoughts, from those that appear unintentionally. and just wasting time and energy, dysfunctional thoughts. . The first needs to be improved and the rest rejected.
Once we have the ability to identify our thoughts, we must spend a specific amount of time each day thinking about anything that doesn’t add anything to us, so every time a circular thought appears we must divert our attention and let it go. and then focus our attention on it during the undesesed time we have planned (for example, 15 minutes after eating). During this period, we will repeat this thought several times until we can make it lose strength or be useless.
With this technique, we can avoid thinking about what we don’t want to think about and divert our attention to something productive.
Sometimes thoughts appear unintentionally, but we have the power to give them the importance they deserve and decide what to do with them.
We own what we think, and although sometimes thoughts appear without realizing it, we have the power to decide what to do with it, it’s about being aware and learning to identify which thoughts are good for us and, conversely, which ones. lead us to a spiral of suffering and discomfort, we are responsible for empowering them and also for taking away that power, as well as we decide when to listen to them.
As we have seen, circular thoughts prevent us from finding new solutions, so by reducing their importance time, they lose strength and are minimized. Lost time allows us to divert attention to what we want to achieve, not to what we think and do. It does not produce good results and also paralyzes us.
Circular thoughts are not good travel companions, so we must try to reduce them and make them lose their importance. It is essential not to forget that we decide what to do with our minds, we have the courage that we give to what we think, we own our time and our spirit. We have our thoughts.