How To Control Mind? avoid this few things to control your mind. 1.Stop overgeneralizing. Overgeneralizing means taking a single occurrence of a negative experience and projecting it onto other experiences or to your predictions about how the future will be. For example, someone who overgeneralizes might say, “I had a difficult childhood, so my life is going to be difficult forever.” To stop overgeneralizing, you might: [4] Take it upon yourself to change your own future through hard work and persistence. For example, if you had a difficult childhood and think your life is going to be difficult forever, you might identify ways in which you want your life to improve, and work to improve them. Continuing the example, perhaps you want more meaningful relationships and a better job. You might research ways to obtain those things and then set goals for yourself in those domains to accomplish. 2. Re-appraise what you are struggling to control. Try changing how you loo...