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What is the best way to rid yourself of persistent, intrusive thoughts that frustrate you or make you blue? The answer depends on who you ask.
Researchers say that the strategies that have some promise include: focused distraction, stress and load avoidance, thought postponement, exposure and paradoxical approaches, acceptance and commitment, meditation, mindfulness, focused breathing, attention training, self-affirmation, hypnosis, disclosure and writing.
Whew, that's a mouth full!
I have a great research idea for these guys. Take a group of people who suffer from persistently irritating thoughts and teach them to say "thank you" for them. I'm sure that they would find that expressing gratitude for annoying thoughts would prove more effective in alleviating them than suppressing them or using any of the above techniques.
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