Prompt 8

Richard is trying to tell Elizabeth Gilbert the stop thinking about her negative thoughts and just focus on the positive. He believes that you can pick and choose what goes through your mind. I think that this means she can have a mantra that will tame her mind in a way to stop thinking about outside thoughts that can lead her back to her unhappy days. I tend to have a mind that is all over the place and thinking about many different things at one point in time. To control my thoughts it might be a good idea for me to focus deeply into the one thing that I am doing in the present, and not think about everything else that needs to be done. Maybe having my own personal saying such as "Emily focus" could work. But honestly I feel like this wouldn't work because if I tell myself to not think of something, I know I will. Doing/ thinking what your not supposed to be thinking about makes it more appealing to think that thing. It is like that mind game where you aren't suppose to think of something then your brain automatically thinks of what your not suppose to be thinking about.