Danielle Jhiani explains why fighting nagging thoughts makes them worse. Instead of pushing them away, lean into the possibility of the thought. Suppression signals threat to your amygdala, which amplifies the thought's power.
What you're doing here is you're leaning into the possibility that it's true. Because the more you try to get rid of it or prove that it's not true, it gives that thought more power. See, your amygdala is trying to get your attention. It thinks that there's something wrong, that maybe something bad will happen. And the more we try to push that thought away, the more meaning we give it, or the more we believe it automatically, the more we're going to get those types of thoughts.
