#534 The Unstoppable Thought Stream (And How to Navigate It)
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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The Unstoppable Thought Stream (And How to Navigate It)
Ever feel like your mind is a busy highway with thoughts constantly rushing by, sometimes ones you wish weren't there? Today, we're exploring the reality that we can't simply put up a roadblock to stop all thoughts, but we can learn the crucial skill of deciding which ones get our energy and how long they stick around by choosing not to feed them.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness Podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. One of the many things that I love to do is teach people how to meditate. I've been doing it for decades. And the one thing I've found fairly recurrent throughout all these years is that when I teach |
| 0:22.6 | someone new to meditate, they're so surprised by how active their minds are. And then other people |
| 0:28.5 | tell me, Dr. Puff, my mind's going all the time. How can I possibly learn how to meditate? |
| 0:35.1 | Today we're going to explore the truth that we can't simply put a |
| 0:38.5 | roadblock to all our thoughts, but we can learn the crucial skills of deciding which thoughts |
| 0:44.8 | get our energy and how long they stick around by choosing not to feed them. So what is the basic |
| 0:51.2 | nature of our thoughts? Our brain's job is to think. It is constantly processing, |
| 0:57.6 | predicting, making associations, and doing a lot of things to help us navigate life. It's perfectly |
| 1:04.1 | normal for thoughts, random thoughts, pleasant, unpleasant, weird thoughts to pop up uninvited |
| 1:10.4 | throughout our day. It's not a sign of weakness |
| 1:13.0 | or a lack of mental control. And we're not going to find a switch that says, I'm going to turn |
| 1:18.6 | off these thoughts for the next half an hour. Even an expert meditator will have random thoughts |
| 1:23.4 | coming up during their time that they're meditating. The common misconception and common desire |
| 1:29.6 | is to eliminate unwanted thoughts because often we don't like them. They can make us upset, |
| 1:36.2 | angry, sad, or worried. For example, let's say you watch the news periodically and you keep hearing |
| 1:43.4 | about people losing their jobs. |
| 1:45.4 | You have a secure job. It's a good job and doesn't seem like you're going to lose your job, |
| 1:50.1 | but these worrying thoughts about, what if I get fired? What if I lose my job? What will I do? Keep popping up. |
| 1:58.0 | But I want to introduce a very crucial shift that we're going to talk about today in depth. |
| 2:03.1 | It's the realization that real control isn't about preventing thoughts. It's about managing our |
| 2:09.8 | relationship and reaction to them once they arrive. What we tend to do that gets us in trouble |
| 2:15.9 | is once they do arrive, we feed them. |
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