r/Mindfulness • u/Specific_Medicine_81 • Jul 31 '25

Resources Sharing a small exercise that I do for anxiety and other worrisome thoughts

I do this exercise, may be it helps others to in loosing these anxious thought's grip:

Repeat that thought again, but add 4 words in front: ā€œIā€™m having the thought that ..."
Like I can say I am having a thought that posting here wont help people.

Notice how it now sounds more like just words on a board far far away than a truth. It is just A thought. I can still choose to do what I wanted to do like post here and may be it might help some people who knows. instead of getting caught up in this thought and not posting here I defused this thought and forwarded a post.

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u/Qarlie Jul 31 '25

Powerful stuff, thank you for this. Seems like a quick and simple way to remind you that you're the observer

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u/Specific_Medicine_81 Aug 01 '25

yes, you can say that. It is more like that we acknowledge the thought but we dont have to act on it.
It can be a little tricky sometime to explain this thought, that is why I am telling every one to may be test it out on my chatbot that I am working on focused on these micro skills which can help us in real time.

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u/MinervaHaze Aug 01 '25

Love it, thank you!! šŸ™

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u/Specific_Medicine_81 Aug 01 '25

mention not, hope you find it helpful :)

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u/walkpastfunction Jul 31 '25

Simple but powerful. Now I need to recognize that I am even having those thoughts.

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u/Top-Locksmith-9057 Aug 03 '25

That's so nice! Thank you!

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u/Specific_Medicine_81 Aug 04 '25

hope this helps you. if you want to learn more do let me know i can share some free resources

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u/popzelda Aug 03 '25

Excellent! And a thought might be irrelevant, false, misleading, unnecessary, or hurtful. No reason to to believe it or buy into it just because it popped up briefly.

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u/Specific_Medicine_81 Aug 04 '25

yesssss exactly and we have the control of our life not these thoughts :) if you want to learn more I can share some resources