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Hello. Let the first person who has never had obsessive thoughts, feelings, states, or actions in their life throw a stone at me. In this video, we will answer the questions: why do obsessive thinking, repetitive actions, and other obsessive states arise? What methods can break the vicious circle and stop fixating on a particular problem? To end the flow of obsessive thoughts, feelings, experiences, and actions, it is necessary to ask yourself the question: how can it be otherwise? And work through various answers until you find a solution that automatically changes the state and breaks the fixation. This could be the end, as this method almost guarantees success. However, in an obsessive state, the brain works inadequately. There are difficulties both in posing this question and in answering it. When you notice a persistent, obsessive repetition of a mental, emotional, or motor act, the first thing to do is break the vicious circle, and then return to exploring the causes, how it can be otherwise, and so on. So, the question: why do obsessive states arise? First of all, note that a person is a whole being, and in wholeness, everything is connected to everything. Modern medicine follows the principle: divide and conquer. Applied to a person, this allows impressive tactical successes, but in the strategic perspective, it always leads not to solving the problem but to its worsening, as it does not correspond to the nature of a person. The brain is whole, and it strives for wholeness, completeness, and closure in everything. Until wholeness is achieved, the brain will try to solve the problem. This is the deepest reason for any obsessive state. Obsession is a defense against inner emptiness. It is a symptom of the loss of living presence. It is a way to maintain the illusion of control. It is a way to stay in the mind, not in the feelings. The mind chooses cycles of thinking to avoid experiencing feelings that seem destructive. Obsession is the loss of natural wholeness when the "I am" lives separately from the body, separately from life. Reuniting wholeness is the essence of ending any obsession. So, the brain categorically rejects anything that prevents it from achieving wholeness. A sign that wholeness is absent, even if it seems to have been formally achieved, is the absence of insight as a final qualitative leap at the end of a process. Moving on to the practical part. Next, there are many practices. Choose those that appeal to you. Each individual practice from this list can end an obsessive state. But the problem is that effective transmission of practice is its joint execution with a master in direct heart-to-heart contact. Remotely, the system also works but not as effectively. Therefore, take several practices at once and work with them until you reach a state of insight. This is more reliable. Let's begin. What prevents the brain from making a conclusion that breaks the cycle and experiencing insight? I will offer three answers and corresponding solutions. The first reason for an obsessive state is the incompleteness or possibly unreliability of the initial data, information, or knowledge. The brain will strive to fill the gap it has found and will torment you until you provide it with what is necessary to complete the informational puzzle. The solution: gather the entire database on the obsessive question. Talk to the participants in the situation. If appropriate, use artificial intelligence. Consult experts. We proceed from the principle: there is nothing secret that will not become known. At the same time, the opposite approach also works. Allow yourself not to know. Forced thinking often masks the fear of uncertainty. Tell yourself: "I don't know, and that's okay." The solution is not to control but to be important for inner trust and calm. The second reason for an obsessive state is that the known ways to solve the problem are unsatisfactory, so the brain obsessively searches for another way to achieve the goal. This is how scientific discoveries are made. Everyone thought one way, and one person thought differently. If the different way turned out to be correct, they make a discovery. You also need to make a discovery. You are fixated on the known, but you need to act differently, say differently, make a decision uncharacteristic for you, and so on. Consulting a specialist is appropriate. And let's not fall into pride in the sense that you need to be a top-level professional to enter an obsessive state from the inability to solve a problem because no one on planet Earth has ever solved such a problem. Most likely, your problem has already been solved a million times. You just don't know how it is done. So, turn to someone who knows. And again, the opposite approach works. Allow yourself not to find a solution. Tell yourself: "I don't have a solution at the moment." And that's okay. Trying to have the right answers to all questions is a bad strategy because life is inherently mysterious, and you cannot embrace the infinite. The third reason for an obsessive state is that your brain perceives the question as fatal, that is, so critical that it assigns it the highest priority. The first solution is to reduce the drama of the problem that is not solved. Use this method: imagine the worst possible scenario. Reflect on it and conclude that it is not equal to a sudden end of your life or someone else's life. Because life is inherently eternal and indestructible but inevitably moves through worlds. And no matter how bad it is, life goes on, enriching us with experience. After all, for one beaten, seven unbeaten are given. The second solution is to give yourself permission not to think, not to feel, not to do what stresses you. Tell yourself: "I allow myself not to think about this now. Or I can return to my feelings later when I consider it necessary." Paradoxically, such volitional affirmations reduce tension and help relax. The third solution: talk about your problem and your state with someone you trust, even if that person is not knowledgeable in psychology. Putting the situation into words and bringing it out from the inner world to the outer through speech is the right way to reduce its criticality. Speak, even if there is no one to listen to you; preferably tell yourself out loud. This also works. Nineteen body-oriented practices to end obsessive states. Switching the brain's mode from mental analytical to sensory turns off the thought flow. Accordingly, I will suggest several simple methods as first aid. To interrupt forced thinking by willpower, change the focus of your attention, that is, concentrate on something else. This is the idea of the following practices. The first practice: change the space you are in. Do repairs, rearrange, or better yet, change your place of residence for a while. The more radical the renewal of the environment, the more effective it will break the obsessive state. Go on a trip, preferably somewhere you have never been. This automatically takes you out of obsessive states caused by some dramatic event that a person cannot process and assimilate. The second practice: various movements, for example, rolling on your back, rocking, dancing, vibrations help to get out of brain hypertonicity. Move without a goal. Move as your body wants. Movement is the language of the body. Allow your body to express itself in the language of movements. The more complex the tasks you face, the more actively engage your body. Any types of movements, both calm, smooth, harmonious movements and intense physical training to the limit of possibility, will be appropriate. The third practice, a classic, neurogenic tremor. I described this practice in detail in a separate video; the link is in the description. Neurogenic tremor unloads the nervous system from accumulated tension. The practice is simple and effective. The result, such as relief from anxiety and fatigue, you get immediately. The fourth practice: micro-movement.
