Stop Catastrophic Thinking in Its Tracks
Worried about worst-case scenarios? Swat catastrophic thinking on the nose and stop it in its tracks. Live with calm, courage, and confidence!
Struggling with anxiety or self-esteem? Get ideas from posts in The Thought Tonic Blog for living your life with greater calm, courage, and confidence!
Worried about worst-case scenarios? Swat catastrophic thinking on the nose and stop it in its tracks. Live with calm, courage, and confidence!
Your most recent anxious moment can be the “one moment” that matters. Go ahead, play it back in slow motion. Trust me, you’ll be glad you did.
“Paint the elephant.” Allow yourself to make mistakes, to get things wrong, and yet … to have a grand time anyway.
Use the power of thinking differently to sidestep your inner critic and declare independence from anxiety.
We usually think about anxiety as a burden. What if we were able to think about it as a gift? What would this shift in thought help make possible for us?
Struggling with anxiety? Feeling stressed? Think Thanksgiving all year round, and shift your perspective through practicing gratitude.
How is the way that you are seeing things influencing what is possible for you? What are other thoughts and beliefs that would be more helpful?
What if we thought about our worries as parts of us that might want a different role in our lives? They work very hard, and are likely ready for something new.
I wonder how different our lives would be if we saw beauty, rather than imperfection and brokenness, in more of the “cracks” in the world around us.