This helped me a little with unwanted/intrusive thoughts

[enzyme]

After an overnight stay in the city which was kind of a half weekend break/half meditation retreat I had an insight that I noticed put a stop to my intrusive thinking about the past and certain trauma that happened there so I thought I'd write it down in case it's maybe helpful for anyone that experiences anything similar.  I phrase it as follows:

Anything your mind does that isn't related to the present moment is automatically a fantasy.  The only two places your mind can go is either here in the present or off in some fantasy (whether it's past or future, something minor that happened or something really heavy, both count as fantasy)

The reason the present moment is true and everything else is false is because the present moment is all there is.  It's all you've had and all you ever will have.

If you ate a pizza 2 years ago, does that mean the pizza still exists?

Look at your hands.  Look at your body.  Look at the space you're in.  Now look at a problem (in the present, right now, don't look in your minds fantasy).  Can you find one?

[enzyme]

8 minutes ago, 001 said:

we tend to get lost in our heads and I think meditation can solve it.

you get lost in your head and thoughts that you not actually living I am suffering from this problem too i was thinking about it before seeing your post. 

i had a relief 30 min ago when you talk with people you can get out of your head for some time but i think meditation can help better.

 

Meditation is super helpful even just for 20-30 minutes.

It can be really useful for getting you back in touch to when you were a toddler/child and just being grounded in whatever you were exposed to in the present.

[Ninja_pig]

One insight I had relating to this is that 1 second of suffering is equivalent to 1000 years of suffering. This is because with each circumstance you are still suffering in the present moment.