Episode Details

Can you control your thoughts? Try this. What will your next thought be? You cannot know. So the control was never there to lose in the first place.

After my partner left I was a zombie. Carers would ask how I was doing and I would say I am okay. I could not sleep, and being paralysed I could not even fetch myself a drink. Your subconscious hands you thoughts for survival, the same way you buy a jumper and then see it on everybody. You cannot stop them arriving. You can stop putting weight on them.

One thing to try: When a thought arrives, let it appear and let it go. Do not argue with it and do not add to it.

In this episode

• (0:00) Those unwanted thoughts that just make you feel awful
• (1:43) Feeling like every feeling had left my body
• (3:20) Weeks of wanting nothing more than one good night's sleep
• (4:32) Paralysed, awake at 3am, unable to get my own drink
• (10:13) Why the mind remembers, and what it is protecting you from
• (12:55) What will your next thought be? You cannot say
• (14:42) The jumper you buy, then see on everybody
• (18:31) The little gap where there is genuinely nothing

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