5 Techniques To Stop Your Thoughts, I Swear, It Works!

1. Say aloud “What’s my next thought?” 🗨️

I didn’t just look for my techniques on the Internet, I talked to my psychologist about it, and she gave the first one to me. She simply advised me to say out loud, “what’s my next thought?”. It’s true that talking to yourself can be destabilizing, but this question really works because it causes a short circuit in your brain 🧠.

It’s a bit like pressing the reset button on your computer. Your mind resets and your thoughts stop racing. I’m not saying it’s a miracle solution for calming an anxiety attack, but sometimes it can help you take a step back.

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2. Play a game with your tongue 👅

So yes, I know it may sound like a strange title for a technique, but I can assure you that it works 🤣. Let me explain what it’s all about: our tongue has to touch neither our palate nor the bottom of our mouth. Basically, it has to “levitate”. To achieve this, you simply have to:

• 👉 Open your mouth and just stick out your tongue a little,
• 👉 Move your tongue back towards your throat.

Like the first technique and all the others, this will cause a sort of short-circuit in our head, and so we’ll stop thinking. What’s more, concentration is what comes into play in this technique. Concentration is the key to clearing your mind, and it’s what all meditative activities have in common, including technique 3 👀.

3. The power socket 🔌

I like this other method because I find it a bit fun. I imagine myself as a super heroine, able to generate electricity. So that you understand what I’m getting at, I’ll explain how to stop your thoughts with the “power socket”. Just don’t stick your fingers in it 😅!

No, what you need to do is place two fingers on your forehead and two fingers on the back of your neck and imagine they’re in a power socket. You need to visualize electricity passing through your head and cleaning out your thoughts. This is mental visualization and it works really well!

4. Grab the sky ☁️

I’m proud to say that I was the one who named this method, as it didn’t have a name 😌. Naturally, I chose a poetic name for it because, after all, we need to use our imaginations heavily. What does it involve? You need to stand up and raise your arms upwards, as high as possible, as if you were trying to grab the sky.

Be careful not to hurt yourself or stand on tiptoe. The aim is to stretch your body gently, focusing on the sensations of your muscles stretching. As such, we release physical tension and our mind disconnects from whatever is preoccupying it, to focus on what’s happening in the body.

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5. Pat your face 👩

Again, this isn’t about getting violent, I said patting, not hitting, didn’t I 😬! Nevertheless, perhaps you’ve already heard of it, as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which are fairly well known for helping to combat stress and anxiety. How do you go about it? You simply need to tap the acupuncture points on your face with your fingers.

If you don’t know where they are, there are plenty in the T zone of your face. However, I’ll tell you my personal favorites. I like to tap on the top of my cheeks, just under my dark circles and above my eyebrows. The tapping helps to shake up the thinking machine and what’s more, the acupressure points are activated, which helps with relaxation.

😎 A little extra tip: If you do breathing exercises with these techniques, it’s even better to stop your thoughts!

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