Why you need to stop thinking so much
Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY
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When psychotherapist Nancy Colier decided to write a book about addiction to thinking, people told her the premise was absurd. One person called it "ridiculous." Another said, “Nothing is possible without thinking!” A friend asked mockingly, “So then, I should face a blank wall and hum Om for the rest of my life? Life is short ... I want to be in it!”
It was, Colier writes, as if people thought thinking was life.
"Can't Stop Thinking: How to Let Go of Anxiety and Free Yourself from Obsessive Rumination" (New Harbinger Publications, 160 pp.) isn't an anti-thinking book, she said, but an effort to help people liberate themselves from the obsessive rumination, catastrophizing and negative self-thoughts that have plagued many of her clients over her 25 years in practice.