Remember the theme that “what you resist persists” and the carrot exercise in chapter 1? This is actually how your brain works. When we invest energy in any thought, it builds up the neural connections and makes the thought more likely to happen (Pittman and Karle 2015). This works with any thought; it has nothing to do with the importance of it. The simple fact is that your attempts to keep certain thoughts from coming into your mind is what makes them come round again and feel stuck. One example of this is what happens when you try to stop thinking when falling asleep. Everyone has the
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