{"id":541,"date":"2010-05-28T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frocko.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T18:54:06","slug":"have-you-ever-gotten-a-song-stuck-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Have You Ever Gotten a Song Stuck in Your Head?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have often caught myself replaying a catchy tune in my head over and over again. I also noticed that I occasionally catch myself thinking negative thoughts. Both of these are habits. One is not so problematic, but the other can actually cause harm. I&#8217;ll leave it to you to decide which is which.  So, I decided to make up positive words and thoughts to go along with the catchy tunes in my head. Whenever I catch myself thinking negatively, I work hard at remembering, &#8216;It&#8217;s no big deal, just let it go.&#8217; It&#8217;s not always easy, but the tunes help. A friend of mine taught me an equally great method. She suggested that whenever the negative thoughts creep in, picture them being spoken with Donald Duck&#8217;s voice. This really weakens their effect. Do you have any techniques for breaking negative routines that you&#8217;d like to share?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have often caught myself replaying a catchy tune in my head over and over again. I also noticed that I occasionally catch myself thinking negative thoughts. Both of these are habits. One is not so problematic, but the other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/frocko.com\/?p=541\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/frocko.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}