Do we focus too much on the very thing we don't want?

Don't think about pink elephants!

Have you heard the expression “Don’t think about pink elephants!”

What do we find ourselves doing?

Thinking about pink elephants of course.

In order to make sense of the instruction, we first have to get a picture in our head of a pink elephant. So we have now done exactly what we have been told not to do even though it wasn’t our intention. That’s how …