The Thought Trap
An Approach to Being Here
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Mark Huisenga
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What if your own mind is the reason you're not at peace — not your circumstances, but the way you think?
We’ve been taught to trust our thoughts — to plan, analyze, and improve. But what if that very process is the problem? The Thought Trap is a powerful guide to recognizing and escaping the deeply ingrained mental patterns that distort how we see ourselves and the world. Drawing from philosophy, neuroscience, and psychology, the author reveals six mental misconceptions — including the illusions of time, identity, and self-improvement — that quietly shape our lives and fuel anxiety, confusion, and disconnection.
This isn’t a guide to controlling your thoughts. It’s a call to radically shift your relationship with them — to stop chasing clarity through thinking, and instead, discover it by seeing through thought itself. You’ll learn how to question conditioned beliefs, suspend cultural and cognitive biases, and experience reality from a more present, adaptive state of mind.
Born from personal tragedy — the devastating murder of the author’s sister — this book is both intellectually sharp and emotionally honest. In his search for meaning, the author dove deep into behavioral science, philosophy, and consciousness, eventually uncovering a more coherent way to face suffering, and to live with presence and purpose.
If you feel trapped by your own mind, or stuck chasing peace in all the wrong places, The Thought Trap offers a rare opportunity: to see clearly, live fully, and reclaim the clarity that was never lost — only obscured.
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