THOUGHTS AND CONSCIOUSNESS

X: There are thoughts that trouble me..

Y: Thoughts can trouble or torture you because you (thought) have divided yourself from them (thoughts) as the so called "subject"/controller/the "I"/the self, which is the horizontal conflict (subject - object), a basic distortion in observation, produced by you (thought). And now you're trying to control thoughts, overcome them, escape them, do something with them.

But that's an impossibility, you can only escape, grab a drink, but  they will return, for they are you. You don't realize that you are actually not divided from the supposed "your" thoughts.

Once you understand that consciousness is its content, i.e. there is no consciousness/"I", my self without the content ("my" thoughts), not intellectually but for a fact, that there are only thoughts and consciousness is a myth, the problem ends.

In the factual, undistorted perception of reality, the perception of what really is happening, there may (or not) be thoughts (together with the whole movement of reality) but there is no consciousness/me/I/my self.

That's the only solution. Otherwise you can get addicted to alcohol or drugs, go to a war, commit a suicide, pray, meditate or start to energetically tidy up the room every time :) Knock yourself out.