How to stop worrying and start living

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Worry often gives small things a big shadow.

Swedish proverb.

People go to self-destruction in different ways. One of them is over-worrying.

Someone worries too much about loved ones or a career, while creating negative scenarios in their heads. Anxiety turns into a worm that sharpens you like Dutch cheese and you have less and less energy.

How do you learn to quickly deal with anxious thoughts and not let them enter your head? Let's take a look at a few tricks.

Concentrate on the present moment. Be "Here" and "Now"

An 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 dwell on this and constantly come up with negative scenarios for the development of the situation, it will not lead to anything good. It is even worse if you remember a 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 difficult memories of the past, this further weakens your nervous system.

If you want to worry less - concentrate on the present moment! To do this, use the following tips:

1. Think about today. At the beginning of the day, or at the moment when anxiety begins to cloud your mind, sit down for a minute, stop. Breathe. Narrow your focus significantly. Don't look ahead, as you will see the goals to be achieved and you will begin to worry even more. Just focus on the current day. Nothing more. Tomorrow is not going anywhere.

2. Talk about what you are doing now. For example: "Now I am brushing my teeth." It is very easy to drive back 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?

Many things that you fear will never happen to you. They are just monsters living in your head. And even if one of your fears does happen, most likely it will not be as bad as you painted yourself. Worrying is often a waste of time.

This is easier said than done, of course. But if you ask yourself the question, how much of what you were worried about actually happened in your life, then you will definitely be released.

Refocus from intense anxiety to how you might affect the current situation

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 it and, in this case, there is no point in exhausting yourself with anxiety, 2. or you can influence it and, then, you need to stop worrying and start acting.

What do you do when you feel that your brain is clouded with anxiety?