Great post.

I’d also add that there may be an assumption that focusing on stressful thoughts creates the stress, as opposed to stress being felt, then finding the thought behind it

My experience is that avoiding these thoughts and beliefs creates stress in itself - if I believe that ’sunlight causes cancer’ I can avoid it for a while and the stress won’t be that noticeable when I’m not in sunlight, but it is still there, operating under the surface (like a submarine).

Of course, when I go out in the sunlight the difference will be huge - one ’solution’ is to never go out into the sunlight…. the other is, question it.

And I ‘know’ (well, I assume) you know all of this perfectly well - I’m really writing this to remind myself - the surface beliefs are easy, it’s the one’s that jump out from ‘nowhere’ that are tricky!