From time to time, we all suffer from intrusive thoughts that escalate and branch out until they completely control us, reducing our existence to a mere automatic reflection of what goes on inside our brains. We can always resist, not by denying what is happening inside our brains in terms of neural connections, but by recognizing, naming, reframing, and intervening to guide our attention, and then re-evaluating those processes.
All of this is done through a wiser level of consciousness that transcends the automatic consciousness of the brain's neural connections.

In the book "You Are Not Your Brain", we learn about a four-step therapeutic method formulated by physician and neuroscientist Jeffrey Schwartz with Dr. Rebecca Gladding, so that we are not our brains.