Letting Go of an Unhealthy Obsession

The sad truth is, the more you are obsessed with something, the harder it is to be satisfied with it. Think of your friend. The one that keeps talking about their ex. Although they may feel hatred for their ex, they can’t stop talking about them because that part of their brain is obsessed with them. This is what it means to live as a slave to your emotions.

Repressing obsessive thoughts with therapy, medication, or willpower is futile. It does not work because those thoughts are still passively moving in the brain. They are not gone, just pushed down. With meditation, there is a way to stop pushing those thoughts down. There is a way to bring them to the surface and then completely set them free from the mind altogether. When we are free from the obsessive mind, we can truly achieve inner peace.

Obviously, your friend knows that this is an unhealthy person in their life and they know they should move on, but their minds have been over-taken by this thought, this obsession, and it cannot let go of the thought “what if?”