Asking ourselves why we engage in certain thoughts part 2

One way of approaching negative thoughts when they come up, is to ask why I’m thinking these thoughts. What do I really want to get out of them? Most of the time, there is a situation or circumstance that I’m not happy about, that I wish to change. But when I let thoughts about whatever the issue is just pass through my head without me steering them in any particular direction, all it usually does is give me more negative emotions, but no solutions. But when I make a conscious effort to actually define the issue, my thoughts start to move towards an actual solution.