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How can you get rid of your distress? There are two choices. First, regularly ask yourself: "What will my next thought be? Second, stop judging your thoughts and desires. The first strategy is based on a physics effect known as the Quantum Zeno effect, which states that by constantly observing a system, you can freeze it in its current state.

When you work with unpleasant thoughts in this way, they become assets to mental stability rather than liabilities—like adding weight to the bar when you’re exercising in a gym. You’re developing psychological muscles to cope with greater and greater levels of stress.

We can eliminate fear by training our mind to focus on the opposite of what we are worrying about.

If you are familiar with your triggers, you can remind yourself to “switch on” your script when you know you’re most vulnerable to delving into negative self-talk or overthinking.

The only way to free yourself from a lifetime of being tyrannized by your own thought processes, whether you suffer from excessive anxiety or not, is to come to see your thoughts for what they are and to discern the sometimes subtle—but most often not-so-subtle—seeds of craving and aversion, of greed and hatred, at work within them. When you can su