Time and Effort
Secrets in Mental Detoxing
It’s Discouraging, Challenging, Troubling and Worthwhile
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I often want to detoxify my mind from irrational, devaluing thoughts.
Negative self-assessments or stinkin’ thinkin’ roll like a murky mist in my mind during steam-of-consciousness daydreams or right before I fall asleep.
Changing these thought patterns could take time and effort. Ideas and thoughts often occur unexpectedly or unconsciously without effort. Controlling or turning off my consciousness is challenging.
Mental pictures can be compelling and are sometimes only logical.
“Replacing distorted thoughts with rational ones takes time and effort, but it is possible.”
Where there is a problem, is there always a solution?
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong. The ancients, in the case at bar, laid the blame upon the gods: sometimes they were remote and surly, and sometimes they were kind. In the Middle Ages…
