I saw this on the Stoic reddit and found that it works well.
When you find yourself replaying something over and over in your head, something unpleasant, it can be hard to focus on your work and enjoy your day. One thing you can do is to force your brain to relive the whole incident from start to finish every time it thinks about it.
Say somebody insults you. You worry and worry and are a prisoner of your thoughts. Well fine then, brain. Let's do this.
Recall the incident in detail, start to finish and in real time. Now do it again. And again. And again. Keep doing it.
The pain turns to boredom and the boredom turns to irritation, and eventually you get sick of the whole thing. If your brain relapses repeat until your brain surrenders.
Try it and see if it works for you.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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