2024-01-30 11:12:43
Updated Tuesday, January 30, 2024 – 12:12
They become embedded in our brains and, no matter how hard we try, we cannot get rid of them. Recurring thoughts spin through our minds without any way to ‘hit pause’ or, better yet, to ‘stop’ forever and ever, making our days, but, above all, our nights bitter.
“To a greater or lesser extent, we all have recurring thoughts that they kidnap us and that, although we try, we cannot get it out of our minds,” he explains. Ana Ibezdirector of the centers Mind studio.
Why do we have these obsessive thoughts even though we don’t want to have them? “Because they are the result of a brain mechanism. Biologically, we are programmed so that our brain gets used to certain things. These thoughts have to do with not being able to overcome certain situations and stay stuck to them.”
This is clearly seen, for example, in the separations: “Many times, when there is a sentimental break, we want to evolve and not stay trapped by recurring thoughts about the other personbut we didn’t make it.”
Why does this happen? “Because our brain has automated that that person is in our life. So, for it not to be there, it has to learn to do something new which is removing that person from our life. This, cerebrally, involves an effort and our brain likes to stay in what is known more than to introduce new things. This is why he is going to try to give us thoughts that will make us let’s remember that relationshipabove all, of the positive things. That way, our brain ‘makes sure’ that we’re not going to get out of there.”
For this reason, Ibez points out, “if we want to get out of that situation, we are going to have to enter a learning and transition process in which we are going to force our mind so that, when it takes us there, we are going to mislead it, focusing our attention on something else“.
In this way, he continues, “we will be changing our neural connections and reprogramming our brains so that we can leave that situation behind and, in this way, we are able to make way for the next thing.
However, he warns us, “we must assume that there is a phase in which we will have recurring thoughtsbecause our brains are programmed to have them.
Ana Ibez She is a chemical engineer, neuroscientist, director of the centers Mind studio and author of ‘Surprise your mind’ (Editorial Planeta).
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