This column discusses the mental and emotional rewards of attempting to control your thoughts when faced with life’s challenges. Yet when this opportunity arrives, people sometimes say controlling their thoughts is too difficult. They may even develop a mindset that says, “I give up.”
Often when this happens, they’re referring to how some of their challenges are too upsetting and that trying to control what they think won’t solve their problems. So they see no point in trying. They say that some thoughts are impossible to control. They just pop into their head, or they can’t avoid thinking in a judgmental manner about issues that are highly important to them.
