“I’m going to treat the catastrophic thought like a balloon flying through the sky, where I can’t reach the string to bring it down, so there’s nothing I can do about this,” Kahn says. In so doing, “it permits me the opportunity to practice allowing the thought and experience to live, without having to beat myself up for it, to fight with it, to argue about it, and to try and prove it untrue. If I can allow it to live, and it doesn’t change my experience in some negative way, then over time, the connection can be broken.”

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