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1. Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinking about something.

For example, try not to think about the Statue of Liberty. See how that failed?

Your mind does not understand “don’t”.

Your mind actually processes it as “Think about Statue of Liberty.”

Similarly, if you keep repeating in your head “don’t think about symptoms of anxiety”, guess what happens.

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Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Whenever I think of something but can't think of wha

2. Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.

- Criss Jami

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan

3. Tawakkul is having complete trust that Allah's plan is the best plan.

- Yasmin Mogahed

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Don't drag the past with you and don't drag the futu

4. Don't drag the past with you and don't drag the future towards you and stay happy where you are with what you have.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - These mountains that you are carrying, you were only

5. These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - People who say they don't care what people think are

6. People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.

- George Carlin

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - I want to sleep but my brain won't stop talking to i

7. I want to sleep but my brain won't stop talking to itself.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Dear mind,please stop thinking so much at night, I n

8. Dear mind,please stop thinking so much at night, I need to sleep.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - 90% of the girls think they are ugly. 100% of them a

9. 90% of the girls think they are ugly. 100% of them are wrong.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Sometimes, the best thing you can do is not think. N

10. Sometimes, the best thing you can do is not think. Not wonder. Not imagine. Not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will workout for the best.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - My mind is like a web browser. 30 tabs are open, 1 i

11. My mind is like a web browser. 30 tabs are open, 1 is frozen and I have no idea where the music is coming from.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - If you are depressed you are living in the past. If

12. If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Everything worth knowing can be found in nature.

13. Everything worth knowing can be found in nature.

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Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Sometimes, document your sadness. Sometimes, look a

14. Sometimes, document your sadness.
Sometimes, look at your stress from the outside.
Sometimes, just don't look at your watch the entire day.
Sometimes, just don't answer.
Sometimes, be unfair towards your work.
Sometimes, enjoy your own mediocrity.
Give your work some independence from you.

- Kunal Kamra

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - While you were overthinking, you missed everything w

15. While you were overthinking, you missed everything worth feeling.

- Nitya Prakash

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Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Don’t think, FEEL!

16. Don’t think, FEEL!

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Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Most of the things you worry about never happen.

17. Most of the things you worry about never happen.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - If people would just look at the paintings, I don’

18. If people would just look at the paintings, I don’t think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It’s like looking at a bed of flowers, you don’t tear your hair out over what it means.

- Jackson Pollock

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Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Being calm about everything allows your mind to find

19. Being calm about everything allows your mind to find solutions. Calmness is also a state of trust. Instead of overthinking and overreacting, you just surrender for that moment and allow yourself to receive guidance for what doesn't make sense.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a s

20. Put your thoughts to sleep. Do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart.

Let go of thinking.

- Jalal Ad Din Rumi

21. Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinking about something.

For example, try not to think about the Statue of Liberty. See how that failed?

Your mind does not understand “don’t”.

Your mind actually processes it as “Think about Statue of Liberty.”

Similarly, if you keep repeating in your head “don’t think about symptoms of anxiety”, guess what happens.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Maybe you don’t lash out, manipulate or withdraw w

22. Maybe you don’t lash out, manipulate or withdraw when you are angry. However, you may find resentment building overtime or you may ruminate over the disappointments you have experiences and the people who have caused you to feel that way.

Resentment and rumination only keep anger brewing.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - there is always something that you could imagine in

23. there is always something that you could imagine in your brain that could go wrong, and you could make yourself have a panic attack. Like, your body would actually respond to that.

That’s how powerful the thought process is.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - Treatment for health anxiety is like a maze. You kno

24. Treatment for health anxiety is like a maze. You know the one where you pick a path, take a wrong turn and reach a dead end. Then you have to turn around and pick the right path.

if you are following uncertainty, you will 100% find yourself out of that maze and and you will find recovery.

at any point you choose certainty over uncertainty, you will run into a dead end and you will have to turn around and the only way out is through looking towards uncertainty.

that is the major concept of treatment for Health Anxiety, phobias and OCD.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - It’s amazing that we think all day long, but we sp

25. It’s amazing that we think all day long, but we spend very little time on thinking about “how” we think.

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Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - The four golden words to every negative thought you

26. The four golden words to every negative thought you will ever have.

“is it really true?”

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - 5 Skewed Perceptions of Reality 1. Leapfrogging (

27. 5 Skewed Perceptions of Reality

1. Leapfrogging (Jumping to conclusions)

2. Gigantifying

3. Extremifying (thinking in extremes; always or never)

4. Moodysning (making your feelings seem to be the facts)

5. Keyholing (focussing on the bad stuff and ignoring the good stuff)

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - It is scientifically proven that you cannot suppress

28. It is scientifically proven that you cannot suppress a negative thought by just ignoring it. The more you try not to think of something, the more you think of it.

Allow the negative thought to come. It doesn’t mean you agree with it. It just means that you are not running away from it and you’re not trying to suppress it or ignore it.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - The first step to managing a negative thought is ack

29. The first step to managing a negative thought is acknowledging that you are having a negative thought.

Say it out loud.

Then try to sing it.

Then think the worst case scenario. And the worst part about that worst part. and the worst part of that worst part.

Eventually you will lead to the “real” reason why you are having that negative thought.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - In exposure therapy when a person is exposing themse

30. In exposure therapy when a person is exposing themselves to certain situations, the situations are very normal and nothing for others, but to us it is a great challenge. Things like driving again, or exercising, or not overthinking.

These challenges will not feel like challenges soon enough, because you can get yourself to a place where the value that you have placed to the things that contribute to your anxiety have less value.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - I become what I think about all day long.

31. I become what I think about all day long.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - When a negative idea pops up, replay and listen to t

32. When a negative idea pops up, replay and listen to these fearful thoughts from the voice of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Daffy Duck - you name it. People and characters that you never take seriously. This changes the perception of the negative idea.

Law of substitution states that one cannot stop themselves from thinki - The problem is not the problem. The problem is the i

33. The problem is not the problem. The problem is the incredible amount of overthinking you are doing with the problem.

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