How do I stop paying attention to my thoughts?

I find I get caught up in my mind and I fixate on the content of my thoughts sometimes. I find I get too self aware of trying to not engage with them and pay attention to them. I know I’m not my thoughts but I find I go through times where I’m able to let go my thoughts but other times I’m not. It’s like I’m too self aware that I’m engaging and paying attention to my thoughts. I guess this causes resistance and judgement. It’s like I’ll get thoughts about not engaging and paying attention to my thoughts but it causes me a lot of anxiety and overthinking. And it overall gives me a hard time to not react to negative thoughts. Any tips or advice?

Edit: Thank you all for this advice. Sometimes I get myself all worked and I unconsciously see thoughts as themselves as the problems when thats actually not true. It’s my reaction that’s the problem. I guess I gotta continue to work on truly not engaging and paying attention so much to the thoughts and stories that go through my mind. Especially the negative ones. I miss out on the present moment. Plus not being too hard on myself when I get tangled up. I am also seeing a therapist on this as well which is good