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When cognitive understanding about thoughts does not change emotional reactions

I understand intellectually that my thoughts create my suffering but I cannot figure out how to actually stop believing them when they arise.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Knowing how thoughts work conceptually has not translated into the embodied capacity to relate differently to them in real time.

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