How To Stop Thinking (How to Stop Thought) - Teal Swan

How do I stop thinking or stop thought all together? Are you over thinking about negative things or about someone too much? Stopping thought relates to quieting the mind and focusing on a specific subject.

When we are thinking, we are not present with all of ourselves. We are not present with our bodies. We are not present with the way we feel. We are not present in the world. We are not present with other people. We are only present with the unfolding of thoughts and wherever our attention to those thoughts take us, regardless of whether that place is positive or painful.

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Teal Swan is a New Thought Leader and a Bestselling Author who is an expert in human development and relationships. She has over a decade of experience working with people of all walks of life with a mission to reduce human suffering.

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[anasantiago]

I am from Puerto Rico. I have been experiencing a lot of anxiety lately and ur videos help me. I have 43% battery right now and no electricity... but still I am here. I need ur videos now more than ever, I thank u for this!

[hazel.p]

Teal... you literally cured my debilitating OCD I’ve lived with for years in 11 minutes through a video lmao. THIS is ALL I was looking to be told by any damn medical professional, but nope! You’re changing the game, they all need to be trained under you or at least learn from WHY didn’t I find this earlier!!!! Damn! Well, maybe I wouldn’t have been ready to receive the message and would be resistant towards it had I come across this earlier. I’m now very open to it and started applying it INSTANTLY! THANK YOU, BLESS YOUR HEART INFINITELY! I’ve taken what’s always been mine back.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🤍💗💓💗🤍♾🥺😭😭😭🤧🤧🤧

[sensibilities]

I have a really hard time differentiating between my emotions, thoughts, and soul/inner voice

[MasterSpartan]

Teal this is one of the best videos ever, combining this with Eckhart and Mooji teachings, and one can make everything conscious, to walk consciously, to eat, to breathe, one can feel and be sensual with life, it becomes alive. Thank you teal.

[EastFame]

this very much sounds like a technique against OCD. However I would like to hear Teal analyze this topic in more detail. OCD thoughts are not simple thoughts, they bear this message of danger, urgency and life or death importance along the basic information in the thought. Thus the OCD thought is sitting in the background even if the attention is focused somewhere else.

[zeemalali]

Every day or two, I stop by to watch a video of yours. Now it feels like a home. Your disciple is learning. <3
Thank you, for taking me as closest to finding my own path as was possible. Loads of love, Teal.

[Ezwinz]

SYNCHRONOCITY at it's finest.... This was extremely on point. I've been slacking off "spiritually" these past 2 weeks. Not working that much on myself, not meditating not going out in nature etc etc... I would think about it then it would pass. today I started having a bit of anxiety so I decided to meditate, it felt good, however, 5-10 mins after the meditation i started having some more anxiety and I fell directly on this video. It feels good of actually seeing the thoughts for what they are instead of "experiencing" them. Thank you Teal for all the help ! Another ace up our sleeves ! Have a good one !

[adammitchell]

I watch my own thoughts until they disappear and I see the real me !!!I love you teal !Take care

[banosnapper]

hi teal. I am in the hospital right now, I had emergency surgery yesterday. I was wishing for a way to gain some kind of control over this pain, and my thoughts. then this video popped up in my notifications. helpful.
I have so much gratitude for you. thank you for your work.
sending love to you from Chicago.
💜

[chanououi]

Thoughts trying to steal my attention while watching this video which made me repeat it like a 100 times 🤦‍♀️

[becky]

THANK YOU for offering techniques for visual and auditory "thoughts". I have not often heard this addressed by mindfulness teachers. It's a level of thinking that really started to emerge for me when the layer of wordy thought becomes quieted. Now that I am aware of this form of thinking within me, it can become overwhelming, sometimes shockingly detailed. I love the idea of crumpling up a picture or filing away a photo. Sometimes those vision from my inner being and are worth watching and understanding, but allowing them to hijack my attention and investment for too long gives my power to focus and integrate away. I forget that it is a vision of my own creative spirit, not an external spirit haunting me that I must bow down to.

[amadragona]

Yesterday I literally opened my youtube and wrote your name woundering if by any chance you've made a video that could help me learn to stop thinking. The coincidence that this video and this exact title, is the first that showed up (even tho I've seen many of your videos) is unbelievable

[amberh]

I'm a chronic thinker. This helps a lot!! I love your videos and hope to meet you one day.❤️

[zorroag]

The light that you throw in this process to stop unwanted thoughts it is really appreciated, it show us how to learn to witness everything and not to get attached or cling to everything that come and goes around us

[natalimitovs]

Beautiful. Thank you, Teal. I suffer from insomnia and definitely feels like something activating my mind in order to feed on the energy. It's pretty awful at night time because you get very tired and this energy of helplessness, tiredness and fear gets out of control.

[boof]

Thank you, Teal. I have been having incessant thoughts since last Tuesday because of a situation with one of my room-mates....the thought of "Why is it that so many people in my life turn around & treat me like shit RIGHT after I've done a whole lot (a WHOLE lot) of really nice things for them?"

[anasantiago]

Tonight is one of those nights where I’m overthinking about everything....bad memories, good memories... those are worse, because if I overthink them they stop being good memories. It has to stop, that’s all. Sometimes we should just let thoughts pass by. Thank u so much for this video Teal❤️

[soothingsounds]

Thank you Teal for all your vids, going through dark night without your vids it would have been very difficult. They are extremely healing..

[alaahassan]

I honestly can't thank you enough, one of the most helpful videos I've ever seen.

[FionaRavennn]

This video came up just in time. I am currently staying with my family until the end of summer and dang it's tough! Every day when I am at home with them I get so drained because they don't understand and respect my boundaries ( I need space and my alone time to self reflect), we get into fights every week. I start to think negatively whenever I am around them, probably because I am still angry with them. I am draining myself by overthinking way too much these days, I start to have white hair ( I am only in my 20s! :o ).

I am really grateful that you made this video. I will have to watch and practice what you said a few more times before I can get the hang of it.

Thanks Teal!! Sending you and your crew love from HK <3