How to Stop Thinking of Your Ex Immediately

Getting annoyed you can’t stop thinking of your ex? Do you just want to get your life back on track? They appear to be moving on so why can’t you? The relationship did not end well and perhaps you keep agonizing over whether it should have ended at all. Perhaps you’re even building up a little resentment for your ex due to all the pain you’re going through right now.

Well please stop beating yourself up. It’s quite normal to miss a relationship once it’s gone. What you DO need to do is gain a handle on not obsessing over the past. It’s not healthy for you to hang onto what could have or should have been. At the same time hearing simply to ‘get over it’ or ‘you’ll get over it in time’ aren’t helping you much either. You can not switch your feelings on and off that easily and that is something you are finding the hardest to deal with. So much so that perhaps you wonder if you’ll ever stop feeling the way you do.

Now I’ll let you know how to stop thinking of your ex instantly, starting right now. Make sure you’re somewhere comfortable and preferrably by yourself. If you want to cleanse your mind from any thoughts of your ex here is what you need to do. The methods I’ll show you here can apply to any bad habit you want to stop.

I assume the reason you want to STOP thinking of your ex is because the thought of them brings up bad feelings or emotions in you. Now we will condition yourself to stop that habit.

Now start to think of your ex, the moment you do I want you to do something silly for me. I want you to clap your hands together. Do this quickly. Now as you slam your hands together, imagine you’re slamming the image of your ex like it’s printed on a piece of paper in front of you. Now try doing this 10 times, each time a bit faster than the last.

So start to think of your ex, and as soon as you do, clap your hands and you should imagine slamming the image of them in an instant. Do this until you instantly clap your hands the moment you think of them and they instantly disappear as you do.

This might seem silly but once you’ve done this a bunch of times, start to think of your ex, you’ll find you won’t need to clap your hands for you to imagine their image disappearing. If this technique isn’t working so well, you could try, instead of clapping your hands is to get up seek out the nearest person to you to start a conversation. If there’s no one closest to you, pick up the phone and call someone. (Not your ex though) The key is to the interrupt the behaviour.

Now although this might work temporarily, it won’t stop the longterm problems of WHY you keep thinking of your ex. To figure out the real issue going on here, you’ll need to do a bit of soul searching. Evaluate the relationship and decide what you really want.

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