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Today I want to shine light on intrusive thoughts, how damaging they can be, and what we can do to get rid of them.

Every day we think around 70,000 thoughts.

Because we have so many words running through our minds all at one time, it's difficult to separate ourselves from them.

We're basically like a fish in water, and we're swimming through countless ideas that pop up in our mind.

And just like the fish doesn't recognize the water, sometimes we don't recognize that our thoughts are just thoughts.

And instead we completely identify with them.

Although I present myself to the world in a really confident way, there are many times during the day that an intrusive thought will take up space, take the steering wheel, and drive my train of thought absolutely mad.

I can be doing so many positive things, and all of a sudden something will pop up in my head and say, I'm not good enough.

Or, ugh, I'm such a mess.

These types of thoughts can be really harmful, especially if we believe them.

They can disrupt your flow of work and peace, leaving you in a negative mindset, and pretty much just derailing you completely.

The problem is, the more power you give these thoughts, the more and more they pop back up.

So on my personal journey to discover how to rid myself of all these negative thoughts, I stumbled across a video from Emma McAddom.

Emma McAddom is a licensed mental health professional, and she provides incredible resources for how to combat negative thoughts.

Even if we realize when a negative thought pops up, it still requires a large amount of energy to fight it.

Our thoughts are like the glasses through which we see the world, so instead of looking through them, sometimes we have to look at them.

Emma McAddom explains that cognitive fusion is believing every thought that passes into your mind.

When we experience this, we are fusing ourselves to whatever thought pops up in our head.

So if I think today is going to be a bad day, and I believe it without question, then I am practicing cognitive fusion.

So the trick is to engage with cognitive deep fusion instead.

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