To begin with, let's clarify what do I mean by stopping myself. Stopping means to stop your thoughts which are of no real value to you. Sometimes, thinking deeply about how to do or why to do a certain thing just turns you into a inefficient human being. Your thinking stops you in a preventive way, preventing what you really want to do. In some cases, this thought also turns into meaningless action, making frantic gestures or just running up here and there without accomplishing a mile.
Therefore, one has to stop himself when such a rush of useless thought hits. That is what I mean by stopping.
As a suggestion, I would start with something new. Learning something new will stop your useless thinking. For instance, if you never had flowers in your home, try planting some new flowers and learn about them. Here is why: Our brain works with a notion of indexing things. For instance, if you index legs with sex, then you have a leg fetish. If you index a beautiful image of a happy party environment with some awful memory than you hate parties and you end up being frustrated when you are invited into one.
When you start something very new, where you have to learn something, your indexing may stop for a while. You will get closer to freeing your mind. If you are a driver, think about the first several times while you are on streets driving. You were not able to think anything other than how to drive. The same holds valid for skiing or snowboarding. You can't think of anything else while you are at it because it is just very new and not yet automated by your brain.
So, by engaging in something that your brain has not automated yet will help you stop your useless and harmful thinking. That's why I also suggested starting reading a new book.
Many questions still remain about this. I have to articulate a brief explanation and move on just because I have sessions waiting in the following hours but you can be sure I'll continue next week.
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