Stopping the mind’s horror movie

Suppose we are in our home theater, and we find a horror movie playing on our TV when we had no desire to watch such a movie. We would just change the channel.

If we compare our inner world to a theater, our mind is like a TV screen which features movies of various kinds. On that inner screen, a horror movie sometimes starts playing. For example, whenever we face some external danger, our mind starts racing with a wild imagination that paints dreadful scenarios. When a horror movie is unfolding on the inner screen, we may get so overwhelmed that we passively keep watching that movie till we end up in a state of panic or paranoia or paralysis.

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