Anxiety often gives small things a big shadow.
Swedish proverb.
People go to self-destruction in different ways. One of them is excessive anxiety.
Someone worries too much about their loved ones or career, while creating negative scenarios in their heads. Anxiety turns into a worm that sharpens you like Dutch cheese and there is less and less energy left.
How to learn to quickly cope with disturbing thoughts and not let them into your head? Let's look at a few techniques.
Overly developed imagination and thoughts about what the situation may turn out to be in the future, give rise to the greatest experiences and anxieties. If you fixate on this and constantly come up with negative scenarios for the development of the situation, it will not lead to anything good. It's even worse if you remember some similar negative situation from the past and project it onto current events.
If you spend too much time and energy imagining the future in such a negative way or constantly torment yourself with heavy memories of the past, it weakens your nervous system even more.
If you want to worry less, concentrate on the current moment! To do this, use the following tips:
1. Think about today. At the beginning of the day or at the moment when worries begin to cloud your mind, sit down for a minute, stop. Breathe. Significantly narrow the focus. Do not look ahead, as you will see the goals that need to be achieved and will begin to worry even more. Just focus on the current day. Nothing else. "Tomorrow" is not going anywhere.
2. Tell me what you're doing right now. For example: "I'm brushing my teeth now." It is very easy to move into the past and the future. And this phrase will quickly bring you back to the present moment.
Ask yourself, how many times have your negative predictions for the future not come true?
A lot of things that you fear will never happen to you. These are just monsters living in your head. And even if something of your fears does happen, most likely it will not be as bad as you painted yourself. Worrying is often a waste of time.
Of course, it's easier said than done. But if you ask yourself the question, how much of what you were worried about actually happened in your life, then you will definitely let go.
To get out of the state of anxiety, think about what you can do to change the situation for the better and start changing it.
There are only two options for the development of the situation:
1. either you are unable to influence her and, in this case, there is no point in exhausting yourself with worry,
2. either you can influence her and, then, you need to stop worrying and start acting.
And what do you do when you feel that the brain is clouded by anxiety?
