5. Reduce stress and anxiety:

An important part of gaining control over your repetitive thoughts is to become mindful of them when they occur—and then practice the simple technique of thought stopping.

• Try envisioning a red stop sign, and saying to yourself: STOP!...

Until we fully release our emotions, they continue to affect our present mindset.

• Do anger work. Allow yourself to be fully disappointed, sad or depressed. Talk about it.
• Write a letter. Purging emotions out on paper give them a place to live outside of yourself.

Revisiting our past for a specific bad situation can sound like something that will stir your negative emotions. Even if it does, one can see that there has been undue self-blame, and other feelings bottled up in that memory, which need to be released.

We need to think better about our pas...