This short post offers a piece of practical advice, grounded in Buddhist psychology, to help with troubling thoughts. It’s very easy to believe that our thoughts have some kind of fixed or definitive nature. We all do it. I must do that, I should do this. However, when we hold onto our thoughts too tightly, we can suffer. A simple mindfulness technique for changing our relationship with troubling thoughts is to label them “thinking”  as they arise. This can interrupt the usual cascade of...

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