Ways to Cope with Negative Thinking

9. Send them your compassion. Psychologists also recommend that when you can't stop thinking about someone who hurt or offended you, imagine sending them a beautiful ball of white light. Place them in this ball of light. Surround them with this light until your anger dissipates. Try it, it really works and helps clear negative thoughts from your mind. Choose one or more of the described methods to break the cyclical toxic thinking and interrupt the thought pattern that arises when you can't get bad thoughts out of your head.