Joanne Smith argues you shouldn't try to fix negative thoughts. The effort to change them actually makes them stick. Instead, recognize they're untrue and don't believe them. Your brain learns a new pattern, and the thoughts fade on their own.
And that you don't have to fix anything. Don't even worry about negative thoughts. They're going to come, they're going to go. Don't worry about them. You don't need to fix them. You just have to know that they're not true and you do not have to believe them. And when you start to do that, naturally what happens is they stop showing up as often. They just stop showing up as often. It's like your brain is learning a whole new way, you know, it won't happen instantly, but as time goes on you might notice, I don't have as many of those negative thoughts anymore, and you didn't have to do anything to get to that, you just needed to know, just needed to know and understand and stop trying to change, fix, do things because they're just gonna hang around Forever, because we're reinforcing that. So it's showing that, oh my gosh, Jo's got a serious problem, she's trying to fix all these anxiety thoughts. So do nothing and achieve so much more.
