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Ep. 111: How Do I Tame Distracting Thoughts?

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Cognitive Behavior Therapy - Ignoring Engagement With Yourself Is Not the Way to Avoid Negative Rumination

Negative rumination is the excessive or obsessive return to the same idea. If those ruminations are worrying about the future, then that is the foundation for anxiety disorders. In cogna behavior therapy, you are actually going to enify distorted thinking and correct it. But ignoring engagement with yourselves is not the way to avoid negative rumination. That's going to take ove whether you want it to take over or not.

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