You don't want to address the thoughts because then you are attached to them. You want to become the observer of your thoughts, so seeing them as they come into your mind and then noticing as they roll away too. And then they'll be times when you do get caught up in the thoughts, when you notice this, then coming back to the breath or some other focal point to bring you back to the present moment is great. We all have thousands of thoughts, and taking the time to have some silence and stillness will help in too many ways to list lol. As you said, the thoughts will loop back around, so tell yourself, I'll come back to this later...this is my time for silence :)