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Meditation to Dealing With Intrusive Thoughts

February 15, 2026 · 14 min

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Intrusive thoughts are not stopped, they are starved. Your mind only watches for two things: did it make you feel something, and did you go with it.

About 14 minutes with Steven Webb's calm voice.

Push a thought away and you have given it exactly what it wanted, which is your attention. Good or bad makes no difference to the sender. So you sit on the platform and let the trains in. Someone hands you something, you say thank you, you put it down. Do that long enough and the mind quietly stops sending that one.

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