Valuable insights!

My way of dealing with ANTs (Automatic Negative Thoughts) is to make use of a notebook, which I have had designated as Distractions Notebook.

Whenever an ANT comes to mind, I just jot it down in this notebook, and plan to deal with it at a convenient time.

Oftentimes, the ANTs would dissipate on their own without my personal intervention.

Drawing intellectual cues from psychologist Dr Deepak Chopra who puts it this way, about 60,000 to 80,000 fleeting thoughts run through our mind on a daily basis.

According to him, 95% of them are the same as yesterday's.