intrusive thoughts

Intrusive thoughts, the exact meaning of these thoughts are unwanted thoughts which we do not want in our life but they automatically come in our mind at any time and make us sad, depressed, stressed, and anxious. Is it right? I have seen many people who suffered from intrusive thoughts and they want to get rid from these thoughts But the more people try to get rid of it, the more these thoughts come to their mind. Why this happens and how you can deal with your intrusive thoughts? In this article, we are going to talk about this.

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what causes intrusive thoughts

Intrusive thoughts arise when we start thinking too much about something. Following things are the cause of intrusive thoughts:

1)When you hear something- When you hear something exciting, more interesting, sad, and fearful then intrusive thoughts about to come in your mind because during listening you started to create your own imagination in your mind.

2)When you see something- If you see something exciting, more interesting, sad and scary, it can also cause your intrusive thoughts. For example- If you went to a wedding and there you saw a very beautiful necklace around a woman’s neck and that necklace excites you very much, now it is 100% certain that you will think about that necklace in your mind. It will generate thoughts because that necklace made your mind very excited.

3)When you face something- Generally, people develop their intrusive thoughts through bad experience and good experience both. If you have faced any bad experience in your life, then you will repeat that bad experience again and again in your mind and start imagining more and more in your mind about that bad experience and because of that, your brain will store that bad experience in your permanent memory. And so at one point if you want to forget that point, you may not be able to do so. Same thing happens with good experience also because when we any good thing happens in our life we repeat that thing in our mind many times. Now again that good thing will store in out mind and we do not able to forget that thing when we want.

4)When you Overthink- Overthinking is one of the biggest reason of intrusive thoughts. Overthinking here means when you consider your future or past more than living in today. How? Let me explain, People assume their past when they think that they have made a mistake. After making a mistake, they think that they should not have done it. Instead, they should have done so.

5)Negative Self talk- Negative talk with your own mind is also the reason of intrusive thoughts. That’s why stop to do this and try to always talk positive with your mind so that you can store positive things in your mind.

why do intrusive thoughts feel so real

When you think about your intrusive thoughts again and again then they start to save in your subconscious mind and subconscious mind has the power to control your all feeling and emotions. 95% part of your brain has covered by subconscious mind. That’s why the things that are stored in your subconscious mind, whether they are wrong or right, seem very real to you because your mind creates the kind of feelings and emotions in your body, which causes you to make your intrusive thoughts very real. So it is not necessary that intrusive thoughts that seem real to you should be real to other people as well.

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common intrusive thoughts

Common intrusive thoughts that many people think of in their minds are:

Health related thoughts
The thought of failing at anything
Over believe related intrusive thoughts
overthinking

how to stop intrusive thoughts anxiety

Everybody wants to get rid from their intrusive thoughts and for this they do many things. Like forcefully stop their thoughts in their mind and try to forget that but after all these hard works they do not able to successfully eliminate their intrusive thoughts in their mind. When a person tries to forget his intrusive thought, that thought comes more than before. But you do not need to worry about this because this is nature of our mind. We remember the thing in our mind the most that we want to forget.

To stop intrusive thoughts anxiety, understand the thing that intrusive thoughts are generate from overthinking and overthinking is not a bad thing. Scientists, researchers, and many successful people are also overthinkers. Overthinking is not the problem but wrong thinking is the problem. Now, What is wrong thinking and what is right thinking? Wrong thinking is based on our believes and right thinking is based on reality. Do you know the exact meaning of believe? believe refers to things that do not have proof that they actually exist in this world and all our believes are based on illusions.

People keep wrong thinking in their mind that’s why they generate intrusive thoughts in their mind because right thinking is based on reality and the real things are very clear in our mind but wrong thing create confusions in our mind and we do not able to get rid of it.

If you want to stop intrusive thoughts anxiety then you should be keep right thinking in your mind, always believe on right things. If you generate your wrong thinking then will get stuck into that.

How to stop intrusive thoughts at night

Keep your mind clean
Remove all confusions from your mind
Do meditation at least 5 min
If you think any wrong thing then give 10 minutes to that thing and try to think worst in that wrong thinking this will help you to remove unwanted thoughts from your mind.
Let your mind think whatever it thinks. If you stop your mind then it will think more.
Write and think positive things that happened with you in the night of everyday.

Best book to read for personality development

If you want to improve your personality, mind and confidence then you should start reading books. Reading books is the best way to improve all these things at the same time. Today all successful people tell that reading books is the secret of their success and there is no doubt in it because following are the benefits of reading a book:

It helps to not be afraid to try something new
Helps you advance yourself in your work, career and life
Provides you the right direction regarding your career and life
Makes your thinking different and unique from others
Changes the way you see your work and the world
Helps you not to give up in the journey of your success
Helps eliminate procrastination problem from your life
strengthen your personality

If you also start reading books, then every day you feel a different good change in your body. You will feel that your mind is guiding you, your body is more comfortable than ever in public places, your communication is improving.

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Now, here question arises that reading books is ok. but which book should I read first for your self-improvement and personality development because only good books can help you in self-improvement among all those books that are available in market.

Today in this article I will share with you the names of only those books from which you can start your book reading journey for your self-improvement and personality development. All the books are suggested by successful people who have already read the book and achieved incredible things in their life. Let’s start:

1) As a man thinketh- Famous motivational speaker and Indian entrepreneur Sandeep Maheshwari said in a video over his channel “This book is one of the most amazing book that he ever read, Small and thin book but an amazing book.” If we talk about the specialty of this book, then this book has been written on the power of thoughts. You become what you think. After reading this book you will realize the power of your thoughts.

2) Zero to one- This book is suggested by Elon Musk who is one of the most richest man of this world and CEO of electric car company Tesla and Space agency SpaceX. This book is great for those people who want to run their business in upcoming time and already running their business. This book has already got the tag of best selling book internationally. This book will help you generate new and unique ideas for your work.

3) How the world really works- This book is suggested by the CEO of Microsoft Bill Gates. The writer of this book is vaclav smil. He is a professor in an university in Canada. Inside this book you will find out how world work and you will get to know the reality of world. In short, this book will open your eyes about the world and the people of the world.

4) Dreams with your eyes open- This book is suggested by Piyush Bansal, Founder, Lenskart. As the name of this book suggests, this book will help you to make your dream come true. This book will give you the direction and strength to make your dreams come true and earn money from your dreams.

5) Built to last- This book is recommended by Jeff Bezos, founder, Amazon. Every person faces failures and lots of troubles during his life journey of success. Some person give up and some not. This is the book that provide you energy and strengthen to fight with all those failures and troubles.

6) Think and grow rich- This book is recommended by motivational speaker Sandeep Maheshwari. This book was written by the Napoleon Hill and it was published in the year of 1937 But still after many years of publication people still buy this book because this is really amazing book to open your mind properly. In this book the author talks about the ideas that rich people think in their journey to success. This book will make your journey to success easier.

Do personality development books help?

Yes, personality development books help very much to a person. If you read the book you see many changes inside you. Changes you notice after reading personality development books are:

You will start to explore new things.
your imagination will be over the next level.
you will more creative and unique.
If you will face any trouble and problem, you will know how to handle it properly.
Your entire life cycle will change and you will start giving first priority to your important work.
You will feel more happy and energetic.
Your way of looking and thinking for things will change
you will achieve your success soon

Personality Development books are not just books but they are people’s experience of years which they tell you through a book so that you can achieve success in life and don’t make the mistakes which successful people did during their journey.

How can I develop my personality?

Best way to develop your personality for self-improvement is to read books. All successful people read books everyday. you should also read books to become successful in your life. If you read books everyday then your personality will start developing automatically.