any methods or techniques to get rid of looped unwanted thoughts off the mind?

Answer 1

Two methods:

First, imagine your thoughts and memories like they are being played as a cartoon. Then imagine the memory pacing forward, and then pacing backward, and then forward, and then backwar. And ultimately it will be ridiculous and it will be easy for you to forget it. If it's just a thought like "I am stupid," add something ridiculous to it, like, "I am stupid and I eat banana bread with pretzels." Try to be as outlandish as you can. The point is to DEFORM your belief or memory, CHANGE it for something absurd, and ultimately DISCARD it as something not useful for your brain. We don this constantly. I'm sure you have at one point bit your mouth, right? How did that feel? Did you think "Oh, my God, I'm SO stuuuupid." But why didn't your brain telling you about it? Because your mouth healed slowly and eventually it became something your brain no longer needed. It put it in storage, just in case you ever bite your mouth again. But it's not something that affects your life. It's something that can be forgotten and removed.

Another good tip is to move your body. If I tell you "There is a depressed man behind curtain #1," describe his body for me. Do you picture a man sitting down, with his face down, his mouth all curved in sadness, his shoulders down, his posture bent?

What if I tell you: "There is an extremely happy man behind curtain #2," describe his body for me? Do you see him dancing, jumping, high-fiving, even yelling and throwing punches in the air with a big smile in his face?

Psychology EQUALS Physiology. If you move your body in a way that shows a happy person, you will feel happy. If you move your body in a way that shows a depressed person, you will feel depressed.

So move in an active way that causes you to clear your mind and focus on some other emotion. If you exercise, for example, you'll feel like an athlete, even if you have never exercised.

Answer 2

There is no best generic technique for this, unfortunately. Although lots of people may have this type of problem, the reasons which led to it are usually different for everyone. Normally we keep doing things one way because it serves us a purpose (unless we're talking about a strictly neurological problem). This purpose can be to prevent something bad from happening, or avoiding thinking about something more unpleasant, etc. The fact that it serves a purpose doesn't mean it's a "good" thing - it can cause a lot of suffering. If you really want to get to the bottom of it consult a behavioral psychologist (as in Skinnerian behaviorism). I say this because it's one of the only psychological approaches that takes into consideration what in your past and current environment may be triggering and having you maintain these unwanted thoughts, and what sorts of things you can do to stop it. Other approaches (like cognitive behavioral or psychoanalysis) believe that you can solve a person's problems by changing the way they think. But if you consider that our thoughts are actually behaviors (they respond and act on the real world and are not isolated in our heads), then it becomes clear that changing the way somebody thinks is just as difficult as changing the way they act. For example, rarely do people stop taking drugs just because somebody tells them it's bad for them. Usually the more we try to avoid these thoughts, the harder they become to ignore. They start to get associated with lots of things around us, so that it gets to the point where everything we see makes us feel bad, even though we may not even be aware of the original thought anymore. The advice you get on this site won't really solve your problem, but maybe this comment can get you thinking about how to start addressing this issue.

Answer 3

It might sound silly, but this is what I do. I focus on a favorite memory. I think of every detail of what made that happy, and when you concentrate hard enough on that, your mind is too busy to think anything else.

Answer 4

Practise saying the Gayatri Mantra...silently...concentrate on correct pronounciation.

Answer 5

Pray!!!