is there ANY possible way to NOT think about something. because if you try too hard, you remember what your trying to do and you remember. and if you try to little, you will think about it. for example, think about cheese, now try to forget about it, hard huh? is there any way i need to know!
2007-01-01 09:51:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Thanks a lot!!
Now I'll be thinking about cheese all day.
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2007-01-01 09:57:01 · answer #1 · answered by Terracinese 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't "not think". You are constantly thinking, so you have to fill your brain with other thoughts. Try something that takes a lot of brain power.... crossword puzzles, math problems etc.
How about working out what you want to do with the rest of your life? Get a piece of paper and a pen and start writing down all the things you would like to do, then start writing down ways to acheive them. Plan out your whole life (you don't have to stick with it). If you want, you can plan out several different lives and pick which one you prefer :O)
2007-01-01 18:03:38 · answer #2 · answered by mystire1978 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are thinking about cheese, change track and think of the mouse that steels the cheese or pickled onions or biscuits that go so well with the cheese. You have to be very bored to be absorbed by cheese!
2007-01-01 17:58:15 · answer #3 · answered by saexpat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just think about something other than cheese. Or start doing something else and you'll forget!
2007-01-01 17:54:17 · answer #4 · answered by ~V@NN@H~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not try NOT to think about it, embrace the thought. You'll find that it very easily then flees your brain and another thought will usurp it's place in your mind.
2007-01-01 17:54:53 · answer #5 · answered by TexasChick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pick at a scab
Masturbate
Go outside and dig a hole
Clip your fingernails and toenails
Grap ANY written material and just copy it (type it) word for word on your computer.....
Anything that "should" require or take your full attention...
2007-01-01 17:58:19 · answer #6 · answered by gabound75 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the trick is to stay calm, not think about not thinking. Just focus on your breathing and try to space out.
2007-01-01 17:57:18 · answer #7 · answered by MiKe Drazen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Discipline your mind to immediately switch tracks to another subject.
2007-01-01 18:17:05 · answer #8 · answered by beez 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I smell bacon in this apt bldg.
It is making me sick to my stomach. I am on here to take my mind off it. This is obviouslynot the answer!
2007-01-01 17:56:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just tell other people to tell me to think about that thing. And because I'm not going to do things that many people tell me, So I will never do that, and never think about that.
2007-01-01 17:59:50 · answer #10 · answered by myellowd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋