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Releasing Obsessive Thoughts: Rumination, OCD, and Dealing with Fear
Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson
How to Free Yourself of Obsessions
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There's a very common strategy called thought suppression that people try to do when they have these intrusive or obsessive thoughts. You imagine that there is a part of you, because often these particular obsessions related parts are the obsession of a part. And so you could pretend to be that part, which is like a preacher, or a scientific but nasty critic, or something,. Or a evil, Disney movie character, creepy, creepy kind of creature, gala, like that. These are all interesting. It goes back to this kind of saying, Maxim, really from the human potential days, one of the fastest ways to get off a position is to fully get on it.
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