Unlooped
- Keren Levi-Faran
- Nov 7, 2024
- 2 min read
Where the old loop loosens
And the mind learns to turn
Thoughts with a Tail
It begins as a whisper
A flicker of doubt
A reflex wrapped in reason
I always ruin this
It’s happening again
It must be me
But this isn’t insight
It’s inertia
A thought caught in a loop
That once felt like safety
And now feels like self
Echoes, Not Evidence
In cognitive behavioral theory
We often call “truth” just repetition
Cognitive distortions are mental patterns
Not malicious
Just mistaken
They began as a survival
All-or-nothing thinking to make chaos simple
Catastrophizing to brace for pain
Mind reading to avoid shame
But loops don’t always know when to stop
They just keep spinning
Until you notice
A Softer Interrupt
You don’t need to fix every thought
You don’t need to force a new belief
You only need to pause
To place one soft hand on the wheel
And gently turn
Because your thoughts aren’t facts
And your patterns, aren’t you
And your mind can learn to soften
The same way it once learned to brace
Questions to Reflect On
What’s one thought I keep thinking that holds me back
Where did this pattern first serve me
Is it still doing so
What might shift if I met the loop with awareness
No agreement
Nothing in life is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
Daniel Kahneman
You don’t need to rethink everything
Only to notice what thought you keep returning to
And ask if it still leads where you want to go
Not every loop is a trap
Some are just old paths
You forgot you could step away from
When a thought stops being true
The moment softens
You’re invited to meet at that moment
To take the reflection further
Download the Looplight map below
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